Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-06 | Page 8 | Pending Resolution is Not a Force Bill

PENDING RESOLUTION IS NOT A FORCE BILL BILL- WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Y N Feb Representative tive Crumpacker of Indiana author of the resolution presented to the R Republican publican can caucus I 1 Monday and to fo o be further considered e 1 at a caucus caucus caucus' next next Monday 1 night authorizes the following statement statement state state- ment mont as to the general purposes of the the- movement to correct any any impression that it is in the nature of a force bill The resolution submitted d to the ca caucus cus was designed to secure full In investigation of ot the suffrage question not only in h the South but In all an the states that have Imposed Im ira- posed material restrictions r upon manhood suffrage There Is a II gen general belief that a number of ot states have disfranchised a large portion of their that the colored colored colored col col- col- col ored population b by the operation of ot state laws Is entirely eliminated as a political quantity and yet It counts In apportioning representatives It Is emt emte the general e e among arro arrole belief le leh the h that h states a the Southern Southern South South- ern era states have at atleas leas tIve representatives representatives representatives In the House and the Electoral college resting upon a fictitious 1 s basis s If this I eg be i found g to tobe o C be true r efi In fact sa a and representation pr be reduced accordingly as the constitution impera imperatively requires It I would go 0 a Ion long way toward settling the therace therace race question S 'S S Such ch h a a. method would have none of the characteristics of Df a force bill It would l' l require lequire no mi force for its tion Disfranchising states would suffer a i reduction of political power which they could regain legain by educating educating- their citizens and admitting them to the l privilege ge of the ballot The question would rest with those states tates i But the caucus Is Is' Is asked simply to authorizE authorize authorize au au- au- au a thorough investigation of the whole question through a Congressional committee especially appointed and equipped equipped equip equip- ped pod for that purpose and when the facts as they really exist are ule laid before Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress and the co action may then be taken as the situation atlon requires