The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-02
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ABUSING La TOILETTE,

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The opposition reactionary or stand
pat Republican gang is desperately op-
posed to Senator La Toilette of Wiscon
sim II hates him even more than 1t
is getting to hate President Taft. Y
is not surprising, therefore, that AL
sorts of Misrepresentation are set
afloat by the reactionary press intended
30 iniure Senator La Toilette. One OF
the latest imputations against him is
that he, as chairman of the Senate Cen
sus Committee. which has charge of the
Congressional reapportionment bill
passed by the House carly in the extra
session, is holding back that bill in his
own interest. The reasons attributed to
him for Withholding the bin are Of the
mcanest standpat character. They say
that he is holding it back because the
proposed reapportionment would add
seventy to the number of TAFT dele
gates in the Republican convention OF
next year, and that as La Toilette IS
supposed 10 he candidate for Presi-
dent himself he wishes to shut off this
big addition of seventy 10 the Taft
strength.
The purpose thus attributed to Sena-
tor La Toilette by the rcactionary or
mossback Republicans is OF their own
creation Senator La Toilette is acting
nj the behest of the Senate committee
in this matter. That committee has held
back the reapportionment bill, Just
as the same committee held back
a like bill during the life Of the
Sixty first Congress. The House las
winter passed reapportioument b''!
identical with thc one now pending
The Senate held ii back thea, just ms
il is holding it back now. The reason
then; that reason is political par.
tisan one wholly. 1t refers chiefly TO
New York IS representation in Congress
re the reapportlonment bill had been
passed at the final session Of the Sixty
first Congress. the Democratic legIsla-
ture of the State of New York would
have had the reapporhonlng of that
State, which gets an addition of six
members TO its delegation. This reap
portioning is of great advantage to the
party making it. II made by the Dem
ocrats, the districts would be so ar
ranged as TO send the maximum num-
Der of Democratic Representatives TO
Congress. If made by the Republicans,
it would be so made as TO send the
maximum number Of Republican Rep
resentatives to Congress. The differ
ence would be material. and in a dele
CATION Of forty-one, which New York
will have undeF the new apportion
ment, that difference is enough in the
Judgment of the Senate, to hold back
the reapportionment until after the
election of a new legislature in New
York, which the Republicans hope will
be a Republican Legislature. What ap
plies to New York applies in lesser de-
gree in other States, though in some
it does not apply at all since the leg
islators have adjourned The New
York legislature, however, is still in
session. but even if it were not, a
special session could be called TO make
the redistricting if the apportionment
bill is passed prematurely, as the
Senate would put it.
1t is for this reason that the appor-
tionment bill is held back. and no
other This is fully understood by the
standpatters; it is their own idea, their
own programme; and still they are
willing TO assail Senator La Toilette for
carrying out what they themselves have
decreed, simply because they hate him.
They would be the worst surprised and
disgusted men in the world if La Fol
lette should so far reverse the Repub-
lican programme on this reapportion-
ment bill as to bring 1T forward for
passage at the present extra session.