The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-06
.LITTLEFIELO
TRIMS HOPKINS
Maine Member Talks on the
ReappOFti0nment Biz.
SHARP RET0RTS
ARE EXCHANGED
Shattuc Attacks Wyoming and
and California.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The feature of
the debate upon the reapportionmenJ
bill in the house today was a two-hour
speech by Mr.. Littleheld of Maine in
favor of the Burleigh bill to increase
the membership of the house to $50
He had number of sharp exchanges
with Mr.. Hopkins, chairman of the
census committee, in which he sus-
tanned his reputation as a hard hitter
and vigorous debater.
During the course Of the day Hopkins
expressed a willingness to accept an
d --endEient to his bill which would give
Gn additional representative each to
Florida, Colorado and North Dakota,
the three states with majority frac-
tiOns unrecognized in his bill. He
claims assured victory for his bill. but
The advocates of the Burleigh bill IN
sist almost as confidently that the Hop
kins bill viii be beaten.
Mr.. Dalzell OF Pennsylvania. presided
in the continued absence Of Speaker
Henderson on account OF illness.
Mr.. Littlefield was the first speaker.
He declared that the Hopkins bill
could properly De entitled An acI 20
cripple the state of Maine in her rep
TeSentatiOn in the house and in the
electoral college" He resented what he
termed Mr.. Hopkins assault on the
state of Maine. That statement drew
from Mr. Hopkins an indignant denial,
which led TO a sharp exchange between
The two mem bers.
MI LittleheId saTcastically called Mr..
Hopkins attention to the men who,
like LOvejoy and Fuller, had gone to
Illinois TO give distinction to that state.
Hits Hopkins Hard
Yet" he said, the gentleman's
speech yesterday was saturated with
= pettifOgging assault upon Maine
III there is any member Of this house
who is an expert on pettifOgging il is
the gentleman from Maine retOrted
AIr- Hopkins.
The gentleman from Maine" replied
ar. LittlefeId, never defended a, Grim
iraI but ne has prosecuted several, and
he is prosecuting one now daughter
and applause
THAT is Just the sort Of 2. remark
I had expected from the gentleman,
Judging by his previous course upon
his floor answered Mr.. Hopkins.
The proposition of the minority was
Mr.. Iiutlefield said. that no state should
lose representation under the new ap-
portionment
Mr.. IIttIeheld called attention to the
paradOXes Of Mr.. Hopkins system of
computations. The system seemed de-
signed. he said, to play bsttledOre and
shutt;ecOck with the state Of Maine
I'm It goes and out it goes" said he
whether the representation goes up or
down
THE gentleman points cut these al
legged paradOXes under the operation
of the figures ct the census director.
interpOsed Mr.. Hopkins, yet the Bur
leigh bill is predicated upon the same
process
Chair Calls Them to Order.
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with Mr.. Hopkins, the chair was
obliged To cali both 10 order and to call
attention To the rule which provides
that the gentleman On the 1Our can
not be interrupted without the consent
of the chair, ana also 60 the rule that
members may not address each tther
by the second person.
The gentleman has already inter
rupJed me about twenty-five times in
violation Of the rule observed Mr.. Lit
tieheld. as he was about to resume.
And the s-ntleCan from Maine has
violated enc Tuir with reference TO the
second person about fifty times eX-
claimed MI Hopkins
The gentleman Is becoming exceed
ingly. technical and sensitive" retOrted
Mr. LitJletieid. II win refer TO him
later in the third person, and later sill
i anticipate that ne viii have shrunk
sufficiently 10 permit me TO refer to
him in the fourth or fifth person. and
perhaps in the END / can eliminate him
altogether daughter and applause).
Proceeding, Mr.. LittIcfe.d argued
that the constitution in prov iding for
oecenuial superintendent contemplated
an increase % the membership until
the house should become unWieldIv
The increase was necessary TO keen
pace with the growth of population.
sbattrc Aims at Wyoming.
Ar. Shattuc Of Ohio followed Mr. If
tieheld. He insisted that i'm making th.. /
reapportiunmenL the representation /
should be reduced in all statcg where 4
the right To vote is abridged. RE I
claimed ten states abridged the suf-
ITage 20 an average Of 20 per cent They /
+" ere California, 80 per cent. Connect /
cut. %, Delaware, l4-3; Louisiana 45.S: /
Maine, %, Massachusetts, 90. vi isis /
slppl a1- North Carolina. 35.T- South /
Cardinals. and Wyoming 81
Mr. hlUtz OF North Carolina q mem /
Der or the census committee. argued in /
favor of che Hopkins bill He favored /
500 because he thought the house WAS
already large enough. and because ON /
that basis there would be no partisan
advantage To- either party i'm the hgusr
cor electoral college
Mr. Switzerland of Nebraska repIied
briefly Co the structures uuon Nebraska
and its population made by air. Hon
hlnS Yesterday He said ole had as
wei accuse Mckinley of being rcspon-
SlplH Tor r. loss OF a representative i'm
ONO ass 90 say that Organism was re-
SponSlble FOR a similar loss i'm Ne
braSEa-
Mr.. Linney Rep.. y. O. a. Eued that
u9der their oatFs 90 support the con-
Sltuuon members i'm voting up0D the
TeaUpCrJiOnmeHt question must +al-e
c"EnlldHre of the abridgem, mt of the }
suffrage a the southern states.