The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-10

ing of their population.
 The Massachusetts member, pressing his point. insists that unless his repub-
 lican colleagues rally to his assistance and put his measure through Congress,
 he will carry the case to the supreme court of the United States, challenging
 the constitutionality of the election of
 that Congress which will sit after March
 4 next
 POLICY OF EXPEDIENCY
 No sooner had the republicans won
 the House in 1918 than they threatened
 to punish the south because of their con
 tention that the south, in making it nec-
 essary for citizens to meet certain men,
 tai and moral requirements before par
 ticipating in politics. defanAly violated
 the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution.
 But the strength of the democrats in
 the Senate was practically as great as
 that of the republicans. During the re- cent summer, when the indications very strongly favored a sweeping republican victory. Representative Siegel of New York, chairman of the committee of the census of the House, and charged with
 the duty of reapportioning the represent tation of the states to accord with the
 returns of the census. renewed the time worn threat against the south. Following the. election, however, and the breaking of the erstwhile solid south" the strategists of the republican l or ganization reached a conclusion that | to hold what had been won they should placate rather than offend the south. And thus the threat was abandoned. ana
 tentative agreement reached that the republicans would forego the pleasure 1 to which they had looked forward with l impatience, namely, the designation or negroes to discharge the duties of fed eral offices in southern states. SOUTH IS ABUSED But there developed one individual who was deeply imbued with the idea that the south was sinful and should be dis ciplined, that he felt justified in break ing from the expedient policy which his leaders had adopted. That man was Tinkham. And thus he prepared his bill, and in giving it publicity, said many cruel things regarding the south, all of
 which contentious he~tried to sustain by a resort to intricate statistics. Mir. Tinkham learned that whereas Ala bama's strength in the House was as great as Californias Alabama's s vote was immeasurably less that whereas Georgia was practically as strong in the House as Indiana, Georgia's vote was several hundred thousand less; that whereas South Carolina was as strong as Colorado in the House. Colorados vote was many times as great.
 And he prepared his bi1f He is deeer-
 mined that the efnegro, as citizen of the
 United States, shall have his every right.
 Just to what extent he would change social conditions in the southern states he does not explain.
 NEGROES ARE RADIANT In connection with the Tinkham bill it is a noticeable fact in Washington that the negro has returned with his political comrades, the republicans. On the first
 day of the session they flocked through the Senate and House office buildings, and through the capitol. They were
 radiant with delight, and evidently la bore under the impression that after eight years in the wilderness, they had resained their inheritance.
 crowded elevator in the Senate office
 building was descending from the fourth floor to the subway when Senator Thom- as of Colorado rang it to halt on the second floor. Senator Harris of Geor- gia and Senator-Ball of Delaware, stand ing near the door of the elevator, pressed themselves together to make room for Senator Thomas. But before the Col orado senator could take advantage of his opportunity, a negro did. After the negro,s entrance, there was no room
 for Senator Thomas, and the elevator
 completed it's journey with the states
 man left behind,