Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1906-01-30
LONG AND LIVELY DEBATE
AVER The Bill TO ReappOrtiOn The State
Into New Districts For The Election
Of representatives,
QUESTION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Raised by an Alluslon to the
Foreign Vote.
FAILURE OF ATTEMPT TO KILL THE BILL

.u,,nted Press Dispatch by sDecial Wires
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 80 When
,bs McWhinney Representative Ap.
rortoumrnt bill was taken up Tor
locond reading in the House of kepre-
.sntstives, To-Day, MT. Hoyt Of brad
lord moved that il be Indefinitely pest
roned. the purpose being TO stall the
bI Mr.. MoWhinney CT Allegheny,
in opposing the motion, said that
there bad been no representative ap-
ro,tioumeut since 1887, which was in
,iolation OF the Constitution, which
,souires a eapportionment every 10
Nr Hoyt declared that II this bill
heoome a law IL would take away Is
CONSERVATIVES from the rural dis
t,iets and put them in the districts
ropulated largely by foreigners. He
MD that in Allegheny county, which
4 entitled to eight additional Repre-
ssbtatiyes under the bill, there we're
5000 unnaturalized men.
M. Andrews of Erie said there was
no publio sentiment IN favor Of reap
pofionment outside of Philadelphia
snd Allegheny counties.
MI. AuIuEI VI 10 HNthh=
ing OF Gov. Pennypaoker' efforts to
secure a renpportionment Of the State,
referred to hin az The Little Old
Man in Boots. lie argued that
under the Constitution the appoftion
meut should have been made alter the
last decennial census.
MI. Eaton of PHILADELPHIA thought
il vas shame to put upon the cover
MOI the responsibility for tae failure
70 reapportion the State. when this
dereliction Of duty rested upon tue
legislature.
M. kex of Montgomery said there
vas no measure before the House
Which has attracted 80 much attention
generally as this and that the people of
ihe State looked to the Legislature to
obey the mandates of the Constitu-
ton by passing TINS bill. He ex.
planned that Montgc merry county would
lose one Representative b. "a reapfor-
iionment, but he was meier .beless in
favor Of he bill, because Lie believed
il was time there was a TespToftion-
nenl Of the State.
Alter a speech by Mr. Riley of ALE
gheny, in favor OF the measure, MIR.
Meyer Of Lebanon moved TO amend by
nostpcnlnR for the present.
Nj. March of Chester, which county
would also lose one Representative by
Ieapportionment, argued that lt was
The duty Of the Legislature, under the
constitution, to make a IeappOrtion-
nsnti and that there ought to be no
luther delay in performing this DUTY.
M Sooheld of Clearheld said he
sould vote for the bill, because be be-
lleVed 1t was his constitutional duty
to do so. lac was also for the bill be-
cause. under it, Cleaffeld would gain
enc member.
Mt. Hitchcock Of Tioga said that If
he hoyt motion prevailed he would
vote to adjourn sine die this after
loon. 1T is tue most damnable thing
Gao think OF, he added, sit would
oe lasting disgrace for this Legisla-
lure TO adjourn without making a new
iploftionment.
M Watkins of Lackawanna, said It
vas manifest from the argument Of
A. hoyt that a spirit OF Know
nolhingism was manifest Ia the
mouse, particularly on the part Of GER
iiiots
lne Meyer molten to postpone for
70, zoe present failed by a vote Of 66 10
~, after which the Hoyt motion. to
pSs.pone indefinitely, failed by vote
The House took a recess until A p.