The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-01

will receive five new members. and
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan
and Ohio will receive four additional
members each. Other than these. the
new members would be: Alabama. / ;
Arkansas, /; Delaware, 1;'Georgia, / !;
Illinois, 3; Massachusetts, 2; Mary
land, l. Minnesota, /; .ew jersey, 2;
New Mexico, L; North Carolina, q;
Oklahoma, /; Oregon, l; South Caro-
lima, /; Tennessee, /; Teas, 3; Virginia,
l; Washington, l; West Virginia, l.;
and Wisconsin, IL The Importance of
the safe legislatures lies in the fact
that they will make the boundaries of
the new districts, "gerrymander'
them Is the term which expresses the
device Of rearranging them so that the
party will suffer no harm In voting
power at the subsequent election. The
last apportionment found the Repub-
lican party In sore straits as the re-
suit of the split in its ranks. This time
the Democrats will be in even worse
condition.
Representative Simeon d. Fess, Of
Ohio, chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, relates with
pride the record of the Republican
House in keeping its campaign prom
Uses. After mentioning the one-year
limitation Of immigration, he says:
another platform pledge, the re-
peal of the war laws, was also taken
up at once, considered, and passed in
record time. Throughout the cam
paign the people weer told that the
cost of government must be reduced
from war to peace basis. This
could not be accomplished while war
laws, under which war agencies were
created persisted. Two years after the
war virtually ended these laws re-
manned through the grace Of presi-
Dental pocket veto of the measure to
repeal them.
This session in obedience to the
pledge to the country the House
brought the repeal act on the floor
and passed it.
Another retrenchment act in obedi-
ence to a platform pledge was the re-
organization of the departments of
government to eliminate duplication.
insure higher efficiency of service, and
reduce the cost to an economic basis.
This measure was considered and
passed in record time.
Thus far the program Of readjust-
ment is promising:
Steps to guard the government
against foreign anti-government prop
uganda.
"The repeal of the war lows by
which numerous war agencies are dis
mantled and saving of unnecessary
expense to the government.
"The first steps to reorganization Of
the departments in the interes of
economy.
"In addition, the Appropriation
Committees are pruning the estimates
of bureaus to the bone, and warning
all department chiefs and bureau
heads against unlawful creation of de-
ficiencies.
an addition the Ways and Means
Committee has conducted hearings
upon which remedial tariff legislation
is promised in protection of the Amer
lean producer.
"This committee is also taking steps
to formulate some relief from a war
burdensome tax system.
Both Houses have taken steps
looking to some relief of the agricul-
turist from the inquiries of war legis-
lation.
"Thus far the first three weeks of
the last session of the Goth Congress
auonre well for the country"
julius Kahn, of California. who was
an actor before he became a member
of Congress, played one of his roles in
a conference of farmer members dis
cussing the tariff bill, and as result
oen of Californai's products got pro-
lection in the bill reported later.
The conference was called to con-
slider whether the bill tentatively
agreed to was as far reaching as the
farmers desired. Representative Mil
Ter demanded protection on salmon
and was accorded it. Representative
Graham, of Illinois, expressed a de-
sire TO have frozen beef protected and
got it.