The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-05


gress resumed today the labor of saw
ing the country. Three months will
be spent in passing few more of
the $4,000 bills introduced in the two
proceeding sessions. There will be
much maneuvering for party advan-
tage and several presidential booms
will be advanced. as occasion per-
mits. AS the session will mark the
loss of control OF the house by re-
publicans, the latter are expected to
crowd through bills in which they
have special interest and to be en-.
ergetic in efforts to get liberal ap.
preparations for home projects.
Two new questions that will test
the fighting qualities OF the legisla-
tors concerns the establishment of
a central bank, and the apportionment
of the countrys population among
representatives in congress.
Apportionment Is matter of poll
tics. 1t can be used to have an I'M
portant effect on party strength and
is therefore a fit issue for strenuous
conteLtion. In some cases it touches
state pride and of course that i'm
pels senators and representatives
from those states TO reach for their
war paint
In t. natural course of events the
number OF representatives for the
next ten years, based on the new
| census, would be decided by congress
at the present session. Action would
lie preceded by computations by the
shrewdest party strategists to de.
termine what number Of people per
congressman would produce the larg-
est proportion OF republicans. No
body knows better than the democrats
the advantage of this apportioning
privilege and they are relied upon to
do everything possible to block ac-
| tion until the next congress. A
democratic house would then work out
the problem with republican senate
and the former would be able to pro.
| tect their interests
During the past ten years the house
has had 39l members, each represent
ten years there were 800 congressman,
each representing 173,901 of the popu-
lation. If the present number Of
members should be retained the ratio
would be raised to an extent that
would cause a number of states to
lose some representatives. The pain.
full operation would be borne by none
of those states without heroic re-
sistence. If the number Of members
should be reduced the losses OF the
slow-growing states would be larger
and their protests much louder. Many
members contend that the house with
391 representatives is now too large
to be a deliberative body and is
forced to do its work through conn
mittees and accept their recommends
tions. Census Director Durand, Will
prepare for the use of congress sta
tistics showing the proportion of
population to house membership rang
ing from $50 to AIS.
An array OF bills to be considered,
and some of them to be fought over.
Itldle W.
| The Panama canal
Federal Incorporation.
Ship subsidy.
Issuing Of injunction..
Conservation
Locomotive boiler inspection
I Alaska, form of government, natur-
\ al resources and railroads.
/ Bureau of public health.
Cold storage law.
! A feature of the session will be tho
+ report of the congressional commits
sion that conducted the Ba'linger-
Pinchot investigation The report of
the minority of the committee has been
made public. and it is expected that
/ the majority will be heard from very
early in the session.
Reports will be received from the
/ senate comittee that is investigating
the alleged third degree" method of
extorting information from prisoners
and house committee that has been
/ making an inquiry into charges that
] certain 1awyprc nlau IN eytrn ct threc