The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-09
SIZE OF HOUSE
To Be INCREASED
Burleigh AppOrtiOnment
Measure is Passed.
HOPKINS BILL GOES
DOWN TO DEFEAT
Steal of Seats is Knocked Out
Finally.

! ,earuorfionrnent plan proposed Dy lhe
Burleigh bill, which increases the mem
bership of the house during the next
decade from 357. the present member
ship. and the membership proposed oy
the committee in the Hopkins bill, TO
$50 The result was largely brought
/ about by the influence of certain SEN
ators from several Of the larger north
ern states, who threw the weight Of
their influence in the scale in favor Of
larger membership.
When it became apparent that those
factors were at work against his bill,
Mr.. Hopkins attempted to compromise
by giving an additional representative
each to North Dakota, Colorado AMI
Florida, but his adversaries refused TO
compromise after complete victory was
| assured. The CrumpaCker proposition
to recOmmit the bill for the purpose Of
aScertaining what states abridged the
right TO vote to an extent which would
entail reduced representation was de-
! feated 100 to 10. There was no roll call
on this vote, but a number of Repub-
ilicans voted with the Democrats.
Under the bill as passed today no
state loses a representative, and the
2 following make gains: Illinois. New
York and Texas three each, Minnesota,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two
each, and Arkansas, California, Col
OradO. Connecticut Florida, Indiana,
Massachusetts, Mississippi. Missouri,
/ North Carolina, North Dakota. Wash e
! ingtOn, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
one each.
The bill provides that whenever a
new state is admitted the representa-
/ tive assigned to it shall be in addition
! to the number provided by the bill. 1t
also adds d provision never hitherto
{ N a f0fl
/ to the effect that congressional districts
in addition TO having contiguous" shall
| also be compact" States which are
allowed additional representatives by
the bill shall, by its terms. elect them
at large until the legislature shall re-
district the state.
Henderson Back in Chair.
Speaker Henderson. who has been
confined to his room by illness for sew
eral days, called the house 10 order to-
day After some routine business had
been transacted the debate upon the
TeappOrtiOnment bill was resumed. Mr..
DalzelI OF Pennsylvania, took the floor
and delivered q speech of an hour in
7 support of the Hopkins bill.
/ Mr.. GrOsVenOr of Ohio, declared he
would vote for a smaller rather than
a larger house. If the Burleigh bill be
came a law it turned over p per cent
| of the power of the fifty-eighth con-
gress to the cities of this country and
stripped the rural districts of their
| power
Mr.. White N. c., the only colcred
man in the house, created a sensation
| by a fierce denUnciatiOn of the tradu-
GERS of his race. He had tried to obtain
an opportunity to be heard during the
general debate, he said, but il had been
denied him. he was. he said. the rep
Tesentative of one-eighth of the pOpU-
! latiOn of the country, of a race that
! had been grossly miSTepTesented and
malgneG by three members of the
house during the pending debate He
! { was glad, however, that the idle and
[ slanderOus words had come from young
men against whom the statute of
youth" could be pleaded. Mr.. White
said he would take occasion a little
! later in a speech which perhaps would
: be his valediCtOTy, to defend the men
of his race, who were no less Amer
lean citizens than those of white skin
t and Caucasian blood. Mr.. Whites re-
marks received d whirlwind of applause
! from the public gallery, in which were
! many of his race.
t Increase is Suggested.
William a. Smith of Michigan, Of
feTed an amendment TO the Burleigl
T substitute to fix the membership at 395
The vote was first taken upon tho
/ Spdlding amendment TO the Origina
the membership to $50 and assigning
the additional representatives to Col
orado, Florida and North Dakota anc
, it prevailed without division
The Smith amendment to the Bur.
leigh substitute was defeated, IS to 136
The BUrleigh substitute was adopt
Z ed, 165 TO 1O2. The announcement wa;
greeted with a round of applause.
Resolution for the 1.-The District
, { n amendment to create territory GU
: 4 of the District of Columbia and allow
2 the district a delegate in the house.
[ The amendment was ruled out on
e point Of order, but Mr.. Clark in FIVE
5 / minute speech declared il an outrag,
! that 800 900 people living within tn,
! shadow of the national capital SHOULD
( be denied representation on the foo
. . of the house.
= The only objection rails ! to the prop
3 [ osition, he said. came ~ the fine
q haired and silk-stOCkinged persons VIII,
declared that If the people of the dis
/ trict were allowed to vote the poo
4 / whites and the id niggers" wOuI,
e [ vote them into bankruptcy.
Mr.. Taylor Of Ohio, expressed tn
opinion chat the provision requirin,
! that congressional districts should b.
contiguous and compact was uncon
7 stitutiOnal and should have no plaC
' in an appropriation bill. But as tn
provision relative to contiguous dis
! triCts had been in previous bills. h
70 / would make no objection Against tn
% I adoption of the committee amendments
I inserting the word compact" some o
e the Democrats protested vigorously an,
e a roll call was finally forced upon IL
5 adoption. The amendment was adopt
: Cd, 100 to 10.
. Mr.. CTumpacker of Indiana, move,
p to recOmmit the whole bin with in
structions to ascertain what states ha,
been abridged the right TO vote TO al
extent sufficient to reduce their repre-
sentatiOn and to report the facts TO tn
house. On a rising vote the motion
was lost. "a TO I26.
Several Republicans, inCludin
l. AIessrs. Pearson of North Carolina, Lit
tIeheld OF Maine: Allen, Maine; Hi
Connecticut, Jennings. Wisconsin
JOY. Missouri, voted with the Demo
Gratis against the motion.
Mr.. Stewart, New Jersey. demande
the ayes and noes, but only fOurtee
II members secOnded his demand. Tn
bill was then passed.
A bill was passed TO pay the mileaG
L OF messengers who shall bring the cleo
, toral votes Of tie several states {
= Washington, at the rate OF 3 cents pc
4 mile.
Treasure Comes From China.
= San Francisco. Jan. S-The steame
= Gaelic. which arrived from HougkOng an