The age-herald., 1901-01-06
Debate Was Resumed.

Without intervening business the debate upon the reapportionment bill was resumed. MT Littlefield of Maine was the first speak er His argument was in favor of the Bur leigh bill That bill provides House or 2S6 members Mr. Littlefield declared that the Hopkins bill could properly be entitled "an act to cripple the State of Maine in her representation in the House and in the electoral college"
 MT. Llttlefield resented what he termed Mr. Hopkins assault upon the State or Maine.,, That statement drew from MT. Hopkins an indignant denial, which led to a sharp exchange between the two mem- bers
 MT. Littlefeld sarcastically called MT. Hopkins attention to the men who like Lovejoy and Fuller, had gone to Illinois To give distinction to that State. "Yet, he said, "the gentlemaDs speech yesterday was saturated with a pettifoggdng assault upon Maine
 .sIf there is any member of this House who is an expert in pettifogging, 1t is tne gentleman from Maine," retorted MT. Hop kins.
 1.-The gentleman from Maine." replied MT. Littlefield, never defended a criminal, but he has prosecuted several, and he is prose- cutting one now" Iaughter and applause)
 That Is just the sort of remark should have expected from the gentleman, Judg- ing by his previous course upon this floor, answered MT. Hopkins.
 The proposition of the minority was, MT. Littlefield said, that no stats should lose representation under the new apportion- ment.
 MT. Littlefield called attention to the paradoxes of MT. Hopkins system of com putation. The system seem designed, he said, to play battledoor and shuttlecock with the State of Maine. Tn 1t goes and out it goes," said he, whether the repre-. cantation goes I'D or down..
 '"The gentleman points out these alleged paradoxes under the operation Of the ng- ures of the director of the census, inter posed Mr. Hopkins, yet the Burleigh bill is predicated upon the same process"
 Gentlemen Called to Order.
 After a sharper exchange than usual with MT. Hopkins the chair was obliged to call the gentlemen to order and to call attention I the rule which provides that inc gentleman on the floor cannot be inter- rupted without the consent Of the other, and also to the rule that members cannot address each other by the second person.
 ..The gentleman has already interrupted me about twenty-five times in violation or the rule" observed MT. Littlefield, as he was about to resume And the gentleman from Maine has violated the rule with re- ference to the second person about fifty flmes," exclaimed MT. Hopkins.
 'The gentleman is becoming exceedingly tecnn1cdl anu StuSiiASCs hiStoAeSN ]"A. ASAe tlefeld
 q will refer to him later in the third per- son and later still anticipate that he will have shrunk sufficiently to permit me to re- fer to him in the fourth or fifth person and perhaps in the end l can eliminate him alto gether." Daughter and applause)
 MT. Shattuc followed MT. Littlefield. He insisted that in making the reapporgQn- ment the representation should be reduced ,, in all states where the right to vote is abridged.
 He claimed ten states abridged suffrage to an average of 20 per cent. They were california Connecticut, Delaware, Louis jana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wyo-
 MT. Klutz of North Carolina, a member of the census committee, argued In favor of the Hopkins bill He favored 357 be- cause on that basis there would be no par nisan advantage to either party in the House or in the electorial college.
 Mir Fox of Mississippi replied to the at taoks upon the southern states. especially defending the action of his state in adopt ing her new constitution.
 MT. Southerland of Nebraska replied briefly to the strictures upon Nebraska and Populism made by MT. Hopkins yester- day. He said one had as well accuse Nc Kinley of being responsible for the loss oi