The Washington herald., 1911-02-10

the Senate will acq,desce as a matter
of course-provides an increase Of forty
two members The States Of Alabama,
Colorado. Florida, Georgia, Idaho. Louis
lana. Michigan, Minnesota. Montana.
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode
Virginia will gain one member each. The
States OF Illinois, Massachusetts. New
Jersey Texas, and Washington will gain
two members each. California and Okla
homa will gain three members each.
Pennsylvania will gain four members.
New York six members, and no State
will lose.
was the lowest number that would pre-
vent any State from losing a Repre-
sentative. Had the Campbell substitute
been adopted. Illinois. Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas. kentucky. Nebraska. North Car
olina, Ohio. Tennessee, Virginia. and
Wisconsin would each have lost one Rep
resentative, and Missouri two.
Sixteen Republicans, fifteen Of whom
are regulars, ignored the action Of the
party caucus, which approved the 591
bill. by voting for the measure passed
yesterday. The insurgents laughed as
these regulars left the reservation.
The regulars who turned their backs on
tie caucus were Representatives Allen.
Buleigh, and Guernsey. of Maine; Aus
tin, of Tennessee: Bennett. of Kentucky:
Burke, of South Dakota; Cowles, of
F'ordney. of Michigan: Greene. of Massa-
chusetts: Hamer. of Idaho: Langham, Of
Pennsylvania; Langley, OF Kentucky, and
Slemp. Of Virginia. Representative Ken
DALI OF Iowa, was the insurgent who
voted for the 433 bill
Members Air Their Views.
Consideration Of the reapportionment
bill was begun in the House at go o'clock
yesterday afternoon, when it was de-
cided that two and half hours should
be allowed for general debate During
this time many members on all sides
then the bill was read for amendment
Representative Mann, Of Illinois, was In
the chair.
Representative Campbell. Of Kansas,
offered his substitute. providing for
membership of a91. but it was decided
not in order for vote at that time.
Then Representative Stafford, OF Wis
consin offered practically the same prop
osition as an amendment to the first Sec
ton of the Crumpacker measure.
us this in accordance with the instruc-
tions OF the caucus?'' MIR. Bennett, Of New
York. inquired.
Sims Favors Larger House.
Representative Thetus Willrette Sims.
Of Linden, Tenn. made An impassioned
speech against the 391 amendment. He
waved his arms and shook his head and
bawled at the top of his voice. but the
uproar in the House was so great at the
time that hardly a word that he said was
distinguishable. He said later that he was
denouncing the 391 proposition, because
it would have reduced representation
from rural districts.
II suppose suggested Representative
Olmsted. of Pennsylvania. after the rack
ct had subsided a bit. that it will be
easier to maintain order if We increase
the size of the House.
After other members had spoken. the
Stafford amendment was voted down. 1o6
to 15s. The only Democrats who voted
for it were Representatives Slayden and
Dies. of Texas. Mr.. Stafford demanded
tellers, and this time the vote was Is
to 1sS Representative Elvins, Of Mis-
souri,. offered an amendment to make the
total membership of the House 40e, ex
planning that on this basis only nine
States would lose one member each. This
was defeated. IS to POI.
Mr.. Crumpacker offered an unimportant
committee amendment and the House
was impatient that there was one
grand chorus Of Aye" before Chairman
Mann could put the question. But he
wasn't at all bothered.
And the ayes have it, he said.
amid laughter. ''and the amendment is
adopted"
Fight "Mi&sOuri Amendment"
The first real hard fight occurred
when the Missouri amendment as 1t
was called. providing for the redistricting
of State showing an increase, by the
State legislature. was offered by Mr.. |
Crumpacker. Mr.. Bartholdt and his COL |
league, Mr.. Elvins. waxed extremely elo- |
quent on this subject, pointing out that |
the legislature of Missouri is Democratic, |
while the governor is a Republican. They |
claimed that as no Democratic legislature |
of Missouri had ever directed a fair re-
that it was not up to Con-
gress to insist upon the proposition in
vofved in the Crumpacker amendment.
But the House, while in Committee Of
the Whole, could not see 1t their way.
and the committee amendment was twice |
sustained. Later, however, on roll
call vote. the committee was turned down
and Messrs. Bartholdt and Elvins made
happy.
Representative Bennett. of New York,
then offered 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 fourteenth amendment having to
do with the denial Of the right to vote
to citizens Of legal age without due rea-
son, and demanded that his amendment.
which would bear hard on those Southern
States which have diSfranchised the
negro, be adopted. His proposition vas
by a large majority.
The bill was then passed, and. amid
much confusion. largely due to the jubi-
lation of the Democrats and those Re-
publicans who had supported the Crum-
packer BILL the House adjourned.
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