The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-05-29
Publicity Bill Passed With Crum-
packers Amends Added.

Washington, May pa cam
paigu contributions publicity bill,
rmbodyng an amendment by Mr..
Crumpaker, of Indiana, providing
for d reduction i'm the representation
in the House Of Representatives in
those States having disfranchise-
ueut laws was passed by the House
to-day by a vote of 100 to l25, fol
lowing y lively debate.
The measure was brought up un-
der suspension of the rules, but
about forty minutes were allowed in
which t0 discuss it. The Southern
members in particular were bitter
in their denuuciation of the appor-
tionmeut provision of the bill Mr..
Williams, the minority leader, was
especially vigorous in his attack,
eharacterizing the bin as being an
attempt to revive the conditions Of,
reconstruction days On account
of the Crumpaker amendment the
Democrats voted against the bill in
its entirety.
In brief, the provision regarding
publicity Of campaign contributions
is made applicable to the national
committees Of all political parties,
and the national congressional cam
paign committees of all parties, and
all committees, associations or or
carnations which shall, in two or
more States influence the result or
attempt to influence the result of an
election at which representatives, in
Congress are to be elected.
The Crumpacker amendment pro-
vides for the re-enactment of certain
sections of the old Federal Election
Law, except that the idea of the
Force Bill authorizing the use of /.
troops at the polls is eliminated 1t +
alsJ provides that the Director Of T
the Cencus shall submit to Congress +
a report on population, showing the F
number of male citizens, white or .
black, in each State and the number
DISTINGUISHED, for the purpose Of en-
aiding Congress to ascertain the APP I
portionment in representation to T
which such States may be entitled.
Mr.. Crumpacker explained his
amendments by saying they were
designed against fraud and intimi-
dations in elections.
They surround the ballots in the
selection of memb ers of the House. -
he said, with sufficient safeguards
to warrant their purity
He undertook to say, he declared,
that no mem Der of the House would
object to a law whose only purpose
was to secure honest elections
In the opinion of Mr. Rucker. of
Missouri, if anything were wanting
to demonstrate TO every man in the
United States that the leaders and
managers Of the Republican Party
in the house were guilty of deceit
and false pretense, the bill under
discussion supplied that want.
1t is horse play, remarked Mr..
Hardwick, Of Georgia
Reduction in representation, he
said, bad no terrors for the South
The Republicans, he asserted, need
not deceive themselve on that pro
position.
Heavy as is the price, " ne ex-
claimed, unfair and unjust as we
believe it would be to exact this
pound Of flesh, yet if the people of
America ever edo require it they
viii find that the South viii pay it !
for the protection Of its homes and
for the preservation Of its white CIV t
ization 3
Expressing the belief that Mr. :
-rumpacker in including his amend :
ment to the publicity bill did not 7
the sentiment Of the lead r
ars on the part Of the majority in y
attempting to revive the principles
If the force bill, Mr.. Lassiter, Of
Virginia, protested against the :,
measures. =
Mr.. Gillespie, of Texas, warned b
he House that by passing the bill p
he condition of the negro would be 81
made worse than at present.
Following brief remarks by
Messrs. Bennett, of New York and
8onynge, of Colorado, in support of .
he bill, Mr. Williams of Mississippi. -
made a vigorous speech against it. pi
The great old party, he began, p,
has resolved itself into.a vaudeville q
stock company" A.
He charged the Repu blicans with @