Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
FOR 433 IN HOUSE.
Lower Body Passes the Crum-
packer Measure.
REPUBLICAN BOILERS HELP
Proposition That State Legislatures
Have Charge of Redistricting
Starts Lively Row.

| The House of Representatives decided
yesterday that 1t was not big enough for
a great country like this. So, after more
than five hours of debate the Crumpacker
| bill providing for an increase in the
membership In the body from 391-the
present fgure-to 433 was passed. There
was no roll call on the measure, but just
previously substitute offered by Rep
resentative Campbell of Kansas, propos-
| ing that the membership remain as at
present, was defeated. 131 to III.
/ Quite a number of republicans ignored
the action Of their recent party caucus
| declaring for the Campbell proposition.
and the votes OF these boilers, combined
| with those of the democrats, were suf-
| ficient to carry the Crumpacker measure.
There We're fifteen of these republican
! boilers and fourteen of them are regu-
lars. The boilers were Representatives
Allen, Burleigh and Guernsey of Maine,
| Austin of Tennessee, Bennett OF Ken
lucky, Burke of South Dakota, Cowles of
! North Carolina. Crumpacker of Indiana,
Fordney Of Michigan. Greene of Massa-
chusetts, Hamer of Idaho. Langham of
Pennsylvania. Langley of Kentucky and
Slemp of Virginia.
Amendment Causes Row.
A lively row occurred on committee
amendment offered by Representative
Crumpa cker, chairman of the census COM
mittee, who was in charge of the bill for
433 members on the floor, and supported
by the entire democratic side, providing
that the redistricting made necessary by
increases in the representation of various
states would be done by the legislatures
of those states. Two Missouri republic
cans, Representatives Bartholdt and Ell
wins, bitterly opposed the amendment.
and. after 1t had been approved by two
votes In committee of the whole House,
finally succeeded in knocking it out on a
roll call in the House itself by narrow
margin of three. Mr.. Crumpacker, who
had twice supported the amendment
which he reported from the census COM
mittee, finally changed his vote on the
roll call and opposed the amendment.
Speaker Cannon had his name called and
ne, too. voted against it. This turned
the trick. Messrs. Bartholdt and Elvins
opposed the amendment on the ground
democratic gerrymander which would
result in an absolutely unfair redistrict-
ing Of Missouri by the democratic legis-
lature Of that state.
Increase Of Forty-Two.
The Crumpacker bill passed yesterday
the Senate will acquiesce as matter of
Consequences an increase OF fOrty-tWC
members The states of Alabama, Colo
RADIO. Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana. North Da-
kota. Ohio, Oregon. Rhode Island South
Dakota, Utah and West Virginia will gain
one member each. The states of Illinois,
,, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and
Washington will gain two members each,
California and Oklahoma will gain three
members each, Pennsylvania and New
York six each. and all the others will re-
main as at present
The total of 433 was selected because
it was the lowest number that would pre-
vent any state from losing a representa-
tive. Had the. Campbell substitute been
adopted. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina,
Ohio. Tennessee. Virginia and Wisconsin
would each have lost one representative
and Missouri two.
Representative Bennett of New York Of
fered an amendment designed to cut down
the representation OF southern states in
the House in the Sixty-third Congress-
He read the second section of the four
teenth amendment, having to do with
the denial of the right to vote to citizens
of legal age without due reason, and de-
manded that his amendment. which would
bear hard on those southern states which
have disfranchised the negro, be adopted
His proposition was defeated by a large
majority.