The Marshall republican., 1911-09-14
congressional and
Senatorial District
Governor Hsdley's Efforts
Fooled the Scheme of
Clark, Stone, Reed and
Others
Special Correspondence.

OtncTS
Special Correspondence.
Jefferson City, August 49, The
next matter to engage the political
leaders of the State before candi-
dates are selected or the campaign
preceding the primary election
one year hence Is under way will
be the submission to popular vote
OF bills dividing the State into
sixteen congressional districts and
thirty-four senatorial districts.
These bills will soon be prepared
and the necessary petitions for
their submission under the initia-
tive and referendum law will be
circulated, under the auspices of
OF the Republican State Committee
The Democratic State Committee
may also prepare and submit bills
certainly will submit a congress
sional district bill. The congress
sional reapportionment act recent
ly passed does not change the mum
Der OF Congressman allotted TO
Missouri, hence there will be six
teen districts M at present, at
least three OF which will be with
In the City OF st. Louis. Before
the next legislature meets the con-
g%ressional districts will have,been
created by vote OF the people and
the Democrats cannot hope to hold
more than seven or eight OF the
sixteen. They now control thir-
teen.
Governor Hadley has expressed
his satisfaction over the passage
OF the Congressional Apportion-
ment Bill with the amendment pro
hibiting the use OF the initiative
and referendum, (Which had been
inserted in the law at the instance
OF the Missouri Democrats in Con-
gress) eliminated through the ac-
ton OF the Senate. He expressed
amusement owe the nervous chill
that Champ Clark and other DEM
ocratic Representatives from Mis-
souri, had over the fear that the
action OF the Senate In striking out
this amendment had given to the
Governor the right to redistrict
the State. The governor said (:
"The great concern of the Honor
able Champ Clark and the other
Democratic Representatives from
Missouri owe the action OF the
Senate in amending the Congress
sional Apportionment Bill for
fear that ! was given the right
to divide the State into congress
sional districts, was entirely with
out Justification This they could
have easily discovered by read
ing the Missouri statutes. The
right OF the Governor, under the
statutes OF this state, to divide
the State into congressional din
tricts exists only in case there Ia
a change in the number OF Com
gresham awarded to a state. AS
the bill passed made no change In
the number OF Congressman from
this state, my right to divide the
static into congressional districts
was never, SO far as I am concern
ed, involved in the controversy al
all. What / am contending 70,
and what was secured was the
the right OF the people of Missouri
to use the method of enacting law.
provided for by our Constitution
in dividing the state into Con,
gressional districts. This right
they were deprived of under the
bill passed by the House, and the
provision OF the act d~eprivine
them of this right was inserted in
to the asu at the instance Of
the Democratic Representatives,
from Missouri.
"It was a most surprising stu
alton indeed when Champ Clark
Senators Reed and Stone and thu
Democratic Congressman from
Missouri sought to prevent, by az
act OF Congress the use by tn,
people Of Missouri OF the RICH,
TO enact . law mdsr the initatdv,