Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

Out of the assurance that reappor-
tionment of representation in Congress
will be made under the coming 1880
census comes much satisfaction to most
of the country. Last-minute efforts to
load down the bill with amendments
that would have endangered its final
passage are condemned vigorously, the
critics regarding the proposed provisions
affecting Southern representation and
foreigners in industrial sections as
merely phases of opposition to the en-
tire measure.
Such a lot of precious time has been
wasted" says the Ann Arber Daily
News. time that was needed to work
out the farm relief problem. Likewise
public money was squandered by the
bad boys who insisted on playing horse
while important affairs waited for at
tention. The public money was wasted
because it is paid out to the members
of Congress to transact the Nation S
business according to certain rules and
not to engage in political dog fights
with either of these amendments, !"
in the opinion of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, the bill probably could not
have been passed, and ought not to be
passed. Both of them were legislative
tricks to defeat reapportionment. But
the House reversed itself and eliminated
DOtD OF THESE amendments.
Inability to consider a loss of repre-
sentation dispassionately and disinter-
eStedly was never more forcibly illus
trated." according to the New York Sun.
than in the course of this bill in both
houses of Congress. The proposals to
exclude from the count aliens and citi-
zens prevented from exercising the fran
chise represented in small part sincere
convictions. in large part the effort to
escape manifest destiny by whatever
means lay at hand. Anybody who be-
lieves that State lines are dim geo.
graphical markers or that State pride
has subsidized before a national senti-
ment had better read the debates on the
apportionment bill"
X X
"The majority floor leader. Mr.. Til
son of Connecticut" as viewed by the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sis to be con-
graduated heartily by honest Demo-
Gratis as we'll as honest Republicans on
his skill in Strengthening out the tangle
and bringing about a vote on which the
bill. without either of these amend
ments, was passed by 271 to 104."
1T was foregone conclusion thinks
the Louisville Courier Journal. that
the House of Representatives would re-
consider its action in lacking to the
reapportionment bill the provisions of
the old force bill. On second thought
that strongly Republican body. which
the South helped greatly to elect, must
realize that this is no time to cut down
the South's representation in Congress. {"
Republican leaders, seeing that the
House had lost all sense of RESPONSE
bility, welded the lash. The result was
salutary," records the Philadelphia
Record while the st. Paul Pioneer
praco yoppSlai inns that q N Ia,.n IS
two decades since the last reapportion-
ment was made representative govern
ment as defined by the Constitution
again will be established in this coun-
try" The Buffalo Evening News COM
mentS on the result; In the end Wig
orous leadership succeeded in striking
out both amendments and the bill was
passed with only slight changes. 1t is
hoped there will be no further fight
upon it. This prolonged struggle over
apportionment has revealed an actual
peril to the country tc inc lightness
with which members of both branches
OF Congress prefer immediate political
advantage to constitutional duties"
"The bills provisions" states the Chi
cago Daily News "are more compre-
henSive than were the provisions for
any previous census. Some are novel
and distinctly progressive in their
character. The enumerators will be in
structed to gather data concerning irri-
gator. Damage, unemployment and
many other matters. Statistics respect
.ng employment and involuntary idle
rss in This country now are grievou5iy
complete and unreliable. Consequent
~ beth off1cialuand unofficial studies of
the unenzpioy MT ne question have been
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