The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-28
Leaders Are Trying to Get Taft to Head Off the
 Bill This Session
CRUMPA ACKER WILL NOT
 FIGHT AGAINST SOUTH
Threatening 10 Cut Down South's Representation for Yenrs,
 NOW Talks Mildly
BY PATTERSON srEALEY

Washington. December 27-(special)- Representative Dwight of New York, re- publican whip" of the House, had a con ference with the President today The belief is current that he called to enlist the Presidents support in the scheme to prevent congressional reapportionment at this session. MT. Dwight, with a num- Der of other republicans, is fl-hting d bill for the reason that the reappartion- ment of congressional districts will fall into the hands of democratic legislatures this winter Only in New York, however, is the situation materially affected. That state annually elects the lower branch of the legislature and Dwight thinks there is bare possibility that the republicans can control 1t next November and thus prevent the democrats from knocking out the present gerrymander of the state. In the other states, such as Ohio, New Jer- sey, Maine and Indiana, redistrictng acts can be passed next winter as well as the present time and democratic governors would be justified In calling extra ses- sions of the legislature for that purpose.
 Whether the President will assist MT. Dwight remains to be seen.
 Representative Crumpaeker of Indiana, the chairman. of the census committee. and other republican members of the com mittee are strongly in favor of bill and are proceeding to frame one regard less of MT. Dwight They admit, how ever. that if the President decides against bill they cannot very we'll run coun- ter to his judgment. They insist at the same time. that there is nothing to be gained politically by such a course and they doubt if the President will take the responsibility of passing the word along to let the measure die in committee.
 Views of Crumpacker
 Representative Crumpacker. who has abandoned his plan for southern congress siona1 reduction. today said:
 ''I will not bring forward the matter at this session. have not sacrificed mr views at all. but know that it would be useless to bring forward my personal views on this subject at this time. and shall not do so. The measure which I proposed in connection with the reappor- tionment ten years ago carried no re- sentiment toward any state. It was not designed for punishment but simply aimed to place representation in the House upon it's constitutional basis. do not believe the House Is ready for such proposition now, and will not press my idea at this time"
 Ten years ago MT Crumpacker, who was then a member of the census com mittee although not it's chairman, filed q minority report in which he urged that the size of the House be made 374 mem bers and proposing to reduce the repre- sentation of the states of Louisiana, Mis- sssippi North and South Carolina, three each for the action they had taken in disfranchising negroes. The proposal did not find any hearty support in the House Since then, at recurrent intervals Mr. Crumpacker has tried to bring forward his project, but never was able to ob- tain favorable action in the committees
 The committee would not now agree to such a proposal Speaker Cannon, in appointing the census committee, was careful to have half of it's republican members from the border states of Ken lucky, West Virginia and Virginia He also placed a republican member from the state of North Carolina on the commit tee With the six democrats voting sol- idly the committee was so framed as to render it impossible to get favorable report in favor of reduction in repre- sentation on account of disfran oh sement