Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-12-18
STATES must
RATIfY The
CHANGE
REPUBLICANS ADOPT REAPPORI|0N-
MENT SCHEME AND APPOINT A
COMMITTEE TO TAKE MATTER
UP WITH The STATE ORGAN
lzATI0NS.
PLAN MUST Be
APPROVED BY Jan. |, IS

Washington, ID. G., Dec. lS.-Ratl1l-
cation by Republican state conventions
OF state organizations of the reappor-
tionment of delegates to national con-
ventions, adopted by the national COM
mittee yesterday, is to be urged as
soon as possible according to mem
bers of the committee who remained
here today.
The first formal step will be made
in an address to the state organiza-
tions to be issued soon by a special
committee appointed by the national
committee for that purpose.
Charles B. Warren of Michigan, is
the chairman of the special commit
tee and associated with him in draft
ing the message, will be former Gov
ernor Hadley OF Missouri. and Gov
ernor Hatfield of West Virginia.
Mr.. Warren announced today that
the special committee would meet i'm
mediately after the holiday. The
message will contain the details OF
re-apportionment scheme, which was
adopted with only seven dissenting
votes and afterwards made unanimous.
Approval of the plan must be made
by January 1, 1915, by conventions i'll
states representing a majority of the
votes in the electoral college.
The reorganization plan adopted,
came as a compromise which reflect
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that southern representation should
be reduced, but not brought to the
vanishing point. 1t reads as follows:
Confident that the action of this
committee, representing as it does
practically the unanimous sentiment
of the Republican electors of the
states, will be ratified by the Repub'
lican electors of the states,
BE it resolved, that this committee
shall issue a call for the national con-
yention to be held in 1916 to nomi-
nate candidates for president and vice
president in accordance with the fol-
lowing basis of Representations: Each
state shall be entitled in such con-
vention to four delegates at large;
one delegate at large for each repre-
sentative in congress at large from
any state: one delegate from each con
gressional district; an additional dele
gate from. each congressional district
in which the vote either for Republi-
can presidential electors in 1908 or
for the Republican candidate for con-
gress in 1914 shall not have been less
than 1900 and that for each delegate
chosen an alternate delegate shall be
chosen in the same manner and at the
same time to act in the absence OF
the delegate.
provided, however, that the above
basis of representation shall not be
made the basis of call for the nation
al convention to be held in the year
1916, unless prior to January 1, 1915,
Republican state conventions held I'M
der the laws of the states, or called
by the Republican state committees
of the state in such number of states
as are entitled to cast majority OF
the votes in the present electoral col.
lege, shall ratify the action of this
committee in respect to determining
the basis of representation"
According to figures submitted by
the subcommittee the new plan would
reduce the total number of delegates
from 1888, as in 1912, to 99S. The
southern states would have 164 dele
gates in ALL