The times., 1900-12-30
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.


in conversation with friends in the lobby
of an uptown hotel, expressed himself as
reconciled to the Hopkins Reapportion-
ment bill. preferring this to the PROPOSE
tion advanced by Mr.. Burleigh.
Under the Hopkins bill" said Mr.. In
derwood. fixing the membership OF the
House at 357, Indiana Kentucky. Kansas.
Ohio. Maine. Nebraska. South Carolina.
and Virginia each lose one member. Kan
sas, Maine. Nebraska, and Ohio will prob
ably remain in the Republican column for
long time. whereas Kentucky. South
Carolina. and Virginia will be Democratic.
Indiana. being doubtful State and not
charging the loss to either party. would
leave net Democratic gain of one mem-
Der. Illinois, Louisiana. Minnesota, New
Jersey, New York and West Virginia. un-
der the Hopkins bill. would gain one mem
Der each, while Texas would gain two.
Putting New Jersey and New York in the
doubtful list il leaves Illinois, Minnesota,
and West Virginia. a Republican gain of
three members. and Louisiana one and
Texas two. Democratic gain of three. On
this basis there is a positive net Demo-
cratic gain in the electoral college of one
vote. The Burleigh proposition provides
that the membership of the House shall be
3ST. None of the States would lose in
representation. The Democrats would
sain one member in Florida Arkansas,
Colorado, Louisiana. Mississippi, Missouri,
and North Carolina, and three in Texas.
making a total of ten. The Republicans
would gain one in California. Connecticut.
Massachusetts, North Dakota, Washing
ton. West Virginia. and Wisconsin. two in
Minnesota and Pennsylvania. and three III
Illinois. making total of fourteen. The
increase of two in New Jersey and three
in New York are not counted There
would be positive net Republican gain
in the electoral college OF four So. under
the Hopkins plan the Democrats make a
gain of one and under the Burleigh plan
the Republicans would gain four. The
Crumpacker proposition is not considered
because ii cannot prevail / think the
Hopkins bill will pass. OF course the
delegations from those States which un-
der the Hopkins bill will lose in repre-
sentation will support Mr.. Burleigh.'
A Southern Representative IN Congress
who will labor for the defeat of the Ship
Subsidy bill, and who was Willing away
last evening in the lobby of the Metro
politan Hotel. told Times reporter that
he was glad Charles Counselman had had
the nerve and honesty to say that he
could build ships without a bounty. "It
is an economic axiom said this member,
(which / learned in reading a text book
on political economy. that low wages
does not mean cheap production. and that
high wages may mean a low cost OF pro-
duction. 1t is the high wage countries
which produce the cheapest goods. This
is particularly true of manufactured
goods. For instance. we do not fear COM
petition with the low wage countries OF
Europe. but the competition of that ooun-
try in which the highest wage "a Europe
is paid-England. / have heard 1t said
that we cannot compete in building ships,
because the wages of American mechanics
are higher. How Is 1t in the case OF loco
motives? There. for instance. is the tes-
timony of John II. Converse, President of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works. before
the Industrial Commission. He testified
that from onefourth to one-third of the
locomotives built by his company we're
shipped abroad on orders. The wage
scale in this country, he said, is con-
siderably higher than the wage scale
abr Dad. bu. superior mechanical adyan-
tages enable us to economize on the con-
struction and to build locomotives quicker
than they can be built in Europe. The
locomotives we build for export. how
ever. cost us more than those we baild
for work in this country. This is due TO
the fact that the export engines have to
be built here and then disrnantled. We
sometimes send our mechanics thousands
of miles to assemble the locomotives.
There is an American tariff on foreign
built locomotives. but ii is not needed
Mr.. Crosswait, clerk OF the United States
District Court at McAlester, Indian Ter
ritory, is in Washington. He came to this
city to appear before the subcommittee
OF the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
having under advisement the Indian APP
propria ticn bill, which was passed by the
House before the holiday recess. Mr.. Cross
wait came to discuss that provision in the
bill which authorizes clerks Of the Fed
erai courts in the Territory to retain
specified portion of the court fees. In the
Indian Appropriation bill passed at the
first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress
this provision for the benefit of the clerks
was stricken out. Some members. in OPP
posing the section. charged that the court
clerks were making SS,0C0 and $1,000 a
year, and that either their fees should be
cut off or their salaries reduced. The plea
of the clerks now Is that their fees having
been cut of they have been unable to pay
for the routine clerical work of their Of
flee.
Jonn y. itduCilu, Oh olouA fdilS- Sdiu al
the Ebbitt House last night that the bill
pending in Congress providing for the
appointment by President Mckinley of
TO treat with the Sioux In
dians of the Rosebud reservation for the
surrender of twenty three townships OF
land in Gregory County, s. D., is one of
the livest topics with the people among
whom he lives Mr. RadcIiff saws the Sioux
want to dispose of the Lad. 1t would mean
the opening W 10 settlement of $4,000
acres OF good agricultural and grazing
land and would cause quite a stampede.
The land is situated west of the Mis-
souri, River in the southern portion OF
the State the southern boundary of the
tract abutting the northern boundary of
Nebraska. The act of Congress under
which about 5000, goo acres OF the great
Sioux reservation was opened to settle
ment in 1890 divided the remaining In
dian lands into separate reservations
AMI the one in question was reserved to
The Rosebud Sioux. Few Indians reside In
he territory which it Is proposed to open
up. There are about 5000 Sioux on the
Rosebud reservation. and after the dis
posal of the tract in question they will
still have a reservation containing about |
he same area as the State of Connecticut. |
Philip II. Lanham of st. Paul said in |
he office Of the Arlington last night that
after the Louisiana Purchase Centennial |
at st. Louis, the people of the Central |
and Upper Mississippi Valley and of the
Northwest generally would begin to ex-
srt pressure for the establishment OF a /
mark at the headwaterS of the