Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-10
MAY REDUCE
.,,,aEg OF coNaREssMEN TO RETALiATE.
southern States Inviting Radical Ao' ton by the Republican Party
 Bosses.

washington. June 10.-Representa .4..o livingston, of Georgia, is here at
 ,i,,se +he meeting of the industrial commission. MT. Livingston is not in s.,.or of ary constitutional amend ,,.ant for his state, in line with arlend- rents on the suffrage question which bsva been adopted by Louisiana, Mis .is.inpi. North and South Carolina. f5o sees danger in such amendments, y.hiclt he thinks may in the future re- --.1t in the cutting down Of the con- occasional representation of states adopting them.
 II think our people are against such eo7nndmpnts to OUT state constitu- Son bp said. We are getting along l nicely with the negro in Georgia. The l states which adopt the amendments, already adopted by Louisiana. Mis- sissinpi, North and South Carolina < may see the time when congress will \ take the matter up with view of af- feeting their representation in con oress. As long as Georgia is doing well we do not care to run risk of having our representation cut down in the United States congress and the electoral college I was opposed to giving the representatives we gave thom at the last session increasing fbeir membership in the house. We gave the Republicans an increase of nine members when there was no no eessity for it, but We had Democrats who were so anxious to get their own representation increased that they were willing to let them do as they wanted.
 The house was large enough. Now, if they conclude their margin is not sufficient and claim their right to in crease it by reducing tn? representa- ton of such states as Louisiana, Mis- sissippi. North and South Carolina, it would bring turmoil and strife and re- open the issues of the civil war. For these reasons do not think it best for the southern states to adopt such con- stitutional amendments.
 T think the Georgia election law remedies the whole trouble complain cd of in the South. Any man can vote in Georgia if he is not a felon and has paid his taxes. He must register and pay his taxes. The great majority of the negroes only have a poll tax to pay \ negro can refuse to pay his poll tax of Si. and after he has done So for twenty years he can vote any time by paving it up. But hundreds and hudrdcds of them prefer to take care of the dollar to voting. We have 10 educational qualifications. The humber of negroes in our state is not go large as it was formerly Very many of them are moving away where agricaitaal conditions are better than they are in Georgia. The color ed people of the state are now in the proportion of four to six.
 MT. Livingston does not think the supreme court decisions in the insu- lar cases have settled anything in re- iatlon to the constitutional question o1 the status of the territories or other possessions of the United States. He thinks the decisions have left the whole matter open for discus. sioh III congress and on the stump. put above all. be thought these de- eislons were in fine with what he cen slders a general tendency to place the weight on the constitution as guide 10 the nation.
 If congress can do aarthine tn tho enitofies. said Nr Livingston. without regard t9 the constitution. 'hen congress can disregard the constitution in dealing with the states 4e doctrine promulgated by the su, piene count seems to me to be a varv 'aHserous one. If the decision had ,een in line with the views of the four
 issenting judges it would have torn ne Republican party to pieces.