The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-21
THREE REPORTS
ON SAME MEASURE
Committee Divided on
Reapportlonment.
SUFFRAGE IN SOUTH.
Crumpacker Fayors Reduction Of Re-
presentation.
NO COMPROMISE WITH WRONG
Ihe Prevalence of Mob Violence Is
He Says, the Legitimate Result of
Generation of Disregard of
Election Laws-Six Meu,-
bers Sign Minority
Report.
NO COMPROMISE WITH WRONG


WASHINGTON. Dee 2o.-Renresenta.
tive Hopkins. chairman of the Committee
on Census, to-day filed in the House the
majority report of the reapportfonn,srt
bill. reported by his committee, fixing the
membership of the House for the next
decade at 357.
Representative BurIeish. OF Maine, fled
minority report, signeJ. by six members
IN favor OF House to be conrposed Of gs,
members. and Representatives Crumpaeker
OF Indiana, who signed the Burleigh report
also submitted an independent report in
favor of reducing the representation in
the Southern States to the extent OF the
abridsrnent of the suffrage. His indepen-
dent report favors a House to be com.
posed OF 31f members
Mr- Hopkins in the majority report.
cites many instances to show that the
loss OF seats by States under reapportioa-
ment bills was not uncommon \ mem
oership OF more than S5.. the report says,
would make the House unwieIdy.
MINORITY REp0asr.
The minority report is signed by Messrs.
6urleisn' Russell, EteatwoIe. Crumpacker.
Griffith and Wilson
ReIerr1ng to the Hopkins apportion-
uent. the minority report saws:
The anomalous character of this pro-
posed apporrionment. as we'll as its on
vlous injustice, is clarly demonstrated by
the tact that 1t is necessarily based, in
part. upon major fractions and vet C'oia-
rado. with majority fraction of 121, ,s677;
FLORIDA, with majority fraction of No.
500, and North Dakota with a majority
fraction of 1035S6, do not receive a repre-
sentative based upon such majority frac-
ton. while every other State with a ma
jority fraction receives u representative
for such majority fraction
we believe that every State should be
treated alike with reference TO it's ma
jority fraction. as no valid reason has
been. or can be. assigned for the discrirni-
nation between them We also believe
that il the new appertionmeut no State
should lose representative.
INDEPENDENT REPORT.
The independent report of Mr. cr,l1i,-
packer goes exhaustiveIy into the abritss-
nent of the right of suffrage in the South
ern States FIe quotes the fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, providing
that when She right TO vote is abridged.
except for participation in REBELLION Or
other crime the representation sili.II be re-
tIuced in such States in proportion to such
abridgment.
The subterfuge resorted to- in the South
to eeade the law he says; marks the
beginning of political Generalization and
social decay He then proceeds 20 se-
we're arraignment of the South in many
localities of which the tramplins1 under
foot of laws calculated to secure the ex-
ercise of political privileges to the negro
has continued for so long that it IS show
ing its vicious fruits IN the prevalence
of mob law
These atrocit.e-, says ne. "bespeak a
deplorabIe condition OF political morals
Their frequent occurrence is the Iegitt-
mate result of a generation OF disregard
OF election laws.
He says in conclusion:
The measure 1 propose corries no re-
sentiment toward any State. North or
South 1t is not designed for punishment.
but it simply aims 10 place representation
IN the House upon its Constitutional basis.
ana no State can justly complain if it
be accorded it's full rights. No compro-
mise can ue made with wrong.