New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-02


per body Of tho AmeIiice icans corr says
the News, which Il rot consti t;ionally
necessary, but which q nearly 8 groaz
an anomaly ii repre- eentatlve govern
.ment The sens tors III too many cases
do not represent the states whose seats.
they occupy and whose voice they as.
sumo to utter. There are eii ghteen states
whose united population comprises q
majority of the whole nation, who are.
now either misrepresented BY the incun-
bent senator's, Of whose voicesis altogeth-
er silent by reasonsof having two sena-
tors who do not vote alike on important
party questions. California has one Dem
5ocrat and one Isepubl blican Colorado has
one who supported Mex Kinley and anoth-.
ser who supported Bryan; Delaware has
one Of each stripe; Idabo's senators will.
not vote alike on the money question; !;
Illinois is cancelled in the senate on all
questions, but the currency question:
Indiana is misrep presented by two silver
Democrats, willie her people have de-.
clared emphatically for gold and Repub-
iicanism Kansas, which went overwhelm-
ingly for Populism, must grin and bear
it while her vote in the upper house is
rendered nugatory by one Republican,
who will sit there in spite, Of her until
1901; Kentucky has but one senator, but
he is a Democrat, notwithstanding the
state has gone Republican; Maryland
has given the Republicans her popular
vote and chosen a Republican legislature,
but a Democrat will cast one Of her
votes in the federal senate; Montana is
divided and Cancelled on the currency
question; Nebraska was carried for Bry-
an and Democratic silver, but will give
her vote in the senate for Mckinley and
gold; New Jersey is cancelled by a divis-
ion Of her senatorial vote; New York,
the imperial state, with population ex-
ceeding that of twenty other states that
might be selected, has gwen her popular
vote by a majority of nearly 100000 one
way, but will have the chagrin Of seeing
her two votes in the senate cast the 9TH
er way for some time to come; Ohio has
a Demo crat and Republican, and con-
sequently on all party issues will be ST..
lent IN the senate; Pennsylvania, which
was almost unanimous at the polls,could
if it came to ballot, as Camercn's eyes"
would cancel Quay's ssno." South Dako-
ia. West Virginia and Wisconsin are
crippled like Pennsylvania by a divided
vote. The seating Of a few new sena-
tors next March will correct some Of
these anomalies, but not the worst of
them. There will be still d majority Of
the population of the country either mis-
represented or silent by division IN the
senate. 3D. ,~ssr :.
"This," says the Detroit paper, :sdoes
not violate the spirit Of the constitution
| al provision that no other state shall be
deprived of its equal representation in
the senate, This state of affairs isclcar-
" remediable, if not by act of congress,
then, certainly by constitutional amerd-
lnent. The senators should always be
subject to recall by the legislatures Of
their states. This was once the inyaria-
bic practice, although it has never been
embodied in law. It was thela Sena-
tor Cass, of this state, who made the first
precedent in violation of the former
practice. He refused to resign on the
demand of the legislature of Michigan,
and since that time no Northern state
has attempted to recall senator once
elected. The practice should be restored
and made obligatory by law, or the SEN
ate will become more odious than it is
already Duluth Herald.
Who says woman cannot keep
A secret ought to try
To find out just hoW-old she is.E
And give him self the lie.
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It would be well for our foreign born