The age-herald., 1901-01-09
HOUSE PASSES
 BURLE|CH BILL Hopkins Meets Objections to His Bill to No Avail . WHITE ON THE RACE QUESTION Amendment Offered for Benefit of District of Columbia RULED OUT ON POINT OF ORDER No State Loses a Representative But Three States Gain Three Each.
 By the Measure That
 Was Adopted.
Amendment Offered for Benefit
 of District of Columbia
RULED OUT ON POINT OF ORDER

Washington, January S.-By a vote of 165 to 1O2 the House today accepted the re- apporttieif1 plan pfoposed by the Bur leigh bill, which increases the membership of the House during the next decade from 357, the present membership, and the mem- bership proposed by the committee on the Hopkins bill, to 3S6. The result was large. ly brought about by the influence of certain Senators from several of the larger north ern states, who threw the weight of their influence in the scale in favor of the larger membership. When it became apparent that these factors were at work against his bill MT. Hopkins attempted to compromise by giving an additional representative each to North Dakota, Colorado and Flor ida but his adversaries refused to com promise after complete victory was as- sured
 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 rep resentaton was defeated-130 to 110 There was no roll call on this vote, but num- Der of Republicans voted with the Demo- crats.
 
 loses a representative, and the following make gains: Illinois, New York and Texas, 3 each; Minnesota, New Jersey and Penn sylvania,.>J2 each; Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, each.
 The bill provides that whenever a new state Is admitted, the representative as- signed to it shall be in addition to the number provided in the bill. It also adds a provision never hitherto incorporated In a reapportionment bill, to the effect that Congressional districts, in addition to be- ing contiguous" shall also be compact States which are allowed additional repre- sen AJtives by the bill shall, by it's term, elect them at large until the state shall be redistricted.
 The Discussion.
 Speaker Henderson called the House to order. After some routine business had been transacted, the debate upon the re- apportionment bill was resumed. MT. Dal- zell of Pennsylvania took the floor and de- , livered speech in facor of the Hopkins bill.
 Mir Dalzell denied the affirmation that under the rules this was an efficient House; 1 House. The records showed it. He argued at length in opposing the increase of mem- bership of the House, and produced records of its business to demonstrate his declara- tion that the House at its present is in- efficient in administration.
 Alluding, in the course of his speech to the French Chambers of Deputies, Mr. Dalzell characterized it as disgraceful as parliamentary body, and said if there was any one more so on the face of the Kn fn xx,I,x tt The chamber could be adjourned at any time by the Speaker ringing a bell, and a number of times within the past few years at had been adjourned in that manner in order to avert the possible bloodshed on the floor of the chamber
 MT Burleigh of Maine offered the first section of his bill, making the total mem bersahip of the House 3S6 members as a sub stitute of the section of the Hopkins biM.
 Mir. Spaulding of North Dakota offered the amendment to increase the membership provided for in the Hopkins bill from 357 to 36O, and assigning the additional represen- tatives to North Dakota, Colorado and Florida
 MT Wilson, South Carolina member of the committee census, opposed the amendment. whion, he said, was ir effect a compromise proposition that would destroy the system upon which the Hopkins bill was based.
 colored Man Speaks.
 Mir White of North CarolinL the only colored man in the House, created some- thing of sensation by a fiery speech of five minutes, denouncing the traducers of his race He had tried to obtain an op- portunity to be heard during the general debate, he said, but 1t had been denied him. He was, he said the representative of one-eighth of the. population of the coun- try of race that had been grossly zDls- represented and maglined by three mem bers of the House during the pending de- bate He was glad however, that the idle and slanderous words had come from young men, against whom the statute of youth could be pleaded. MT White said he would take occasion a little later, in a speech which perhaps would be his valedic- tory. to defend the men of his race, who Were no less American citizens than those of white skin and Caucasian blood Mir. Whites remarks received a whirlwind of applause from the public gallery, in which were seated many of fhis race.
 Mfr. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts in sup port of the Hopkins bill, charged that there was log-rolling combination to control the size of the next House. He denied the charge that the Massachusetts constitution r as regards suffrage was analogous to the Mississippi constitution, and Mir. Williams of Mississippi retorted that the two were identical
 MT. Widen Alden Smith of Michigan of- fered ar amendment to the Burieigh sub