The age-herald., 1900-06-13
PHILADELPHIA IS
 FAST FILLING UP
Many Delegates and National Committeeman Have Arrived.
REPRESENTATION QUESTION
Rhode Island DeIega gation Has Prepared a Substitute Resolution Easing Con- gressional Representation on
 Number of Male Voters

Philadelphia, Pa, June 12-Quite large number of national committeeman and del- egates arrived today, and the hotels are beginning to fill up. Nearly all the other members of the national committee are ex- pected tomorrow to attend the meeting of the committee, which will tomorrow hear contests. Chairman Hanna is due at l p. m.
 The old question of representation in re- publican national conventions, which agi- tated the national committee at it's meet ing in Washington last December, is more than likely to come to the front at the na- tional committee meeting tomorrow.
 The resolution of H. c. Paine of Wiscon- sin presented at last winters meeting, which withdrawn before 1t was put to a vote, will again be pressed, but not by it's author The strongest supports of the Paine measure come from New England. Colonel Charles E. Brayton, national com mitteeman from Rhode Island, who is also chairman of the Rhode Island delegation, will make a strong effort to have the rep resentation changed through his proxy, H. E. Tipeke commissioner of industrial sta tistics of Rhode Island Committeeman Brayton says he has been in communica- ton with the national committeeman of all the states, and his replies include more than twenty who favor the Paine resolu- tion. This resolution provides for four del- egates at large for each state and an ad- ditional delegate for every 10000 republican votes or major fraction thereof based OH the returns of the last presidential elec- tion.
 Rhode Island Substitute
 The Rhode Island delegation has prepared a substitute for the Paine resolution, and will present it if it finds that the sentiment in favor of the latter Is not strong enough to put it through the committee. The sub- stitute is as follows:
 'Whereas, The present basis of represen- tation in Republican national conventions is based upon the representation of the several states and territories in the Con- gress of the United States which, under existing political conditions, is manifestly unjust and inequitable; and
 "Whereas, The representation in Con- gress now accorded to the several states of the Union on the basis of Article XIV, sec tion2 of the Constitution, ought to be mod flied that in every state wherein the right to vote is denied to any of the male inhabitants thereof, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, where in said right is in any way abridged, ex cept for participation in rebellion or other crime, representation in Congress and in the electoral college and in the convention of the Republican party shall be reduced
 
 citizens deprived of the right of suffrage shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in said state; therefore
 Resolved, That the republican National Committee recommends that if the Repub- lican party is continued in control of Con- gress, it invoke and exercise the power of Congress by Article XIV, section 5, to en- force by appropriate legislation the objects of this resolution: and be it further
 Resolved That the holding of national Republican convention in 1904 composed of delegates representing the Republican vot- ing strength and sentiment of the country, elected upon a just and equitable basis of representation is not only paran76@nt in- terest to the party, but to the nation as we'll"
 President McI<inley's picture is beginning to appear on every hand although the Presidential nomination is seldom mention ed by the throngs. The Vice. Presidential gossip, however, is taking a wide range. So far there has been no concentration of forces here on any one man, and there probably will not be until the national committee gets together.