Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-08

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per each. The following states gain
one: llIinois-I do not suppose that ~.
TACT mat Illinois under this bill gain.
one member had anything to do in o.
centuating the patriotism of the inpen
uous chairman Of this committee IT,
stands here conceding that he has ~.
oeen able to do equal and exact instica
TO all the states. But he SUCCEEDS j.,
giving Illinois one additional mernh.r
Louisiana gains l, Minnesota. Nan,
jersey and New York each ]. Weat W.
ginia /. Texas g
what, now, is the result under tba
minority bill? Under the minoritv hi,
tne gains are as follows:
Arkansas !, California /. Colorado
connecticut j, Florida !, Louisiana
massachusetts. Mississippi, Missouri
-North Carolina, North Dakota. Wash
ihSton. West Virginia and Wisconsin
each /. Gaining are Minnesota Neu,
Jersey and Pennsylvania. Gaininy
are Illinois, New York and TeYas
ihese are the results under each Of the
propositions. the proposition Of the mi.
monty being that this House should ba
so reapportiOned that no state should
io3e III us representation.
NOW, l wish to go a little further
mere at this stage of the discussion and
cali attention to the analysis OF tbie
table upon which the minority based
their bill / have taken occasion IN
look 1t over with some care for the pur.
pose of ascertaining whether or no,
upon mathematical principles, deter
mined and measured by results, il has
any scientific basis upon which tn
stand. / have already explained that
the method of reaching the number
OF representatives is, after the whole
numbers are ascertained, to add
enough Of the majority fractions in
their order of size to make up the mum.
Der which you started with in your
computation.
want to take this table from $50 TO
400, inclusive, and show the House
where that provision would arbitrarily
stop in connection with the whole
table. | find that in one instance on
this automatically and scientifically
correct principle they would have to
use minority fraction in order to
complete the number. / find that the
number is completed and one majority
fraction left seven times. 1t is COM
pleted and two majority fractions are
left y times. 1t is completed and three
majority fractions are left seven times.
1t is completed and four majority frae-
tions are left four times. 1t is COM
pleted and five majority fractions are
left four times. 1t is completed and six
majority fractions are left twice. II is
n al aA nd if.r
ton is left once, and the majority
fractions are all taken three times.
There is the consistency of the arbi-
tary result of the table made by Mr..
Walker and supported by the letter
read by the chairman (Mr. Hopkins)
in his speech TO the House on yester-
day.
Let me call attention now to several
o-called paradoXes that exist in con-
nection with this peculiar and wonder
full computation upon which this bill
is scientifically based, and computa-
ton that We follow, il is true, in the
minority bill, because we do not desire
to raise any contention as to the meth
DDS that are adopted by either bill.
There is what is called the Alabama
paradox. in connection with the census
of 1891. not referred to by Mr.. Walker
in his letter. but referred to later as
/ shall show the House in a few mo-
ments. by the official who undoubtedly
did the work upon the Walker letter
itself and subsequently made a report
to Mr.. Cox, the chairman of the same
The first paradox is that Colorado
gains l on $50 and continues to gain up
to $50. and then loses on the basis of
351. That is science; that is mathema-
tics. that Colorado can gain up to 1856.
beginning with $50, and when You
strike 35l, although the number of the
House is larger, why Colorado loses.
And then she Immediately gains on S5S.
Now. l do not say that there is any
purpose in it, but | suggest that there
is a coincidence in the fact that Colo
RADIO is excluded from her proper repre-
sentation on the basis of 351. which the
committee have adopted as the basis
of this majority bill.
l do not say that the chairman of
this committee adopted that basis of
351. the only basis that would leave out
Colorado above $50. because Populists
haplcn to come from Colorado, as he
1.-tringly suggested in his speech up
on this floor. | do not make that in
situation. | call attention TO the re-
markable coincidence, however, be-
cause l conceive. and l suppose the
chairman now. if his attention were
called to it, would rise and say, that
he thinks that Colorado, even though
her people are Populists, has the same
right to a proportional representation
on the floor of this House as does even
godlike Illinois or even Maine, that
seems to be the bugbear in the mind OF
the chairman of this committee.
Let me strike another paradox IN
connection with belabored and assault
ed Maine. nonprogressiVe Name tha'
is behind the procession. whose men III
Illinois lead the procession there. Now
Maine loses on 3S2. She does not lose
when the House in increased to 3S3. 3sf
or sS5. She loses again with 1885, ana
does not lose with 3S7 or 3SS. Then she
loses again on $50 and 800. ana theh
ceases TO lose.
Not only is Maine subjected TO the
assaults of the chairman of this com.
mittee. but it does seem as tnous"
mathematics and science had coiho,he"
to make a shuttlecock and battieuool
of the State of Maine in connecto'
with the scientific basis upon wh''"
this bin is presented to the House.
Now you see it and now you uon
In Maine comes and out Maine so m
The House increases in size. anu e';