The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-05
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time but in the end it had proved
lan,eutabIe failure. Both amendments
had been mistakes, not only to the
Democratic. but to the Republican
party. The time had come now, after
the bitterness of the war was over.
when the people of the south, in fair
ness and justice to themselves and the
negro race, We're trying not TO Cypress
the negro race. but only to protect
themselves and their property against
maIadministration. He admOnished his
friends from the north that they did
not live among the negroes and did not
understand the problem.
we of the south said he. address
ing the house. t'dre trying to serve II
faithfully to both races and | appeal to
you if you are in favor of upbulldlng
the negro race, if you are in favor OF
protecting the investments which the
north has sent there to send this reso-
luton to d committee and let 1t die
there"
Mr.. Williams CIissD said that of re-
cent years some of fhe people of the
south had listened to the siren voice
of the north that sectiOnalism was
dead. This resolution would pluck from
the eyes of those who had been par
TALLY deceived the veil that had been
placed over them. After declaring that
the resolution was stupid and imprac-
ticabIe and citing the voting require
nents Of various other states, he made
an ardent defense of the course of Mis-
sissippi and other southern states.
There is To man who loves Amerl-
can civilization" said he. who is not
glad in his heart that, by constitutional
and legal methods-analogous to those
adopted In Massachusetts, Rhode IS
land and other states, the south has
solved this troublesome and almost IN
solvable problem.
Mr. Olmstead. the author Of the resO-
luton, said ne did not want the reso-
luton to die, and would move its refer
ence to the census committee If the
chairman of that committee would
/ agree to call the committee together to
I consider it within one week.
/ Chairman Hopkins said he was not
/ IN the mood TO make a bargain today,
( but assured Mr.. Olmstead that his
committee would Go its duty.
Mr. Olmstead then made the motion
TO refer, and it was carried without d.
vision.
Colorado in Queer Position.
/ Mr. Hopkins Immediately called up
/ the TeappOrtionment bill and opened
/ the debate in d careful explanation OF
I his bill. He stated that the majority
i
/ ing the membership down to the pres
ent number, 375. from cOnsidera lions of
/ economy and intelligent legislation. Mr
Shafroth of Colorado wanted Mr.. Hop
/ kins TO explain how it was that Colo
RADIO would gain one representative I'M
! der the system adopted if the total
number was 356 or 35S. but would not II
4 il was 351.
Mr.. Hopkins replied that the fact
! which Mr.. Shafroth cited was called
I years ago the Alabama paradox Any
/ system, he said, would not deal out
exact justice to every state. The mem
bership was arbitrarily fixed at 35I
I which made the basis of representation
1 20S. SOS Dividing the population of the
states by this divisOr 335 members were
{ assigned. The other twenty-five were
assigned to those having the largest
ma or Fractions.
( The states which were opposing this
I bill. he said, were those which lost rep
/ resentatives under it's opera ton. He
claimed that the bill of the minority
4 showed fayoritism to Nebraska and
! Maine, zach of which would lose one
Z representative under the basis Of the
! figures prepared by the director of tbs
/ Those Two members, he said, were de-
hberately fiilched by the Burleigh bill
from New York and Pennsylvania He
declared that a more unfair bill was
never presented to the house than thai
: fathered by the gentleman from Maine
/ (Burieigh). The Burleigh BILL he said
gave Maine a representative for eacf
/ ,617 inhabitants. If this ratio were
taken in New York, Pennsylvania anC
Illinois. New York would have five
{ Pennsylvania three and Illinois three