Show MAWi BY FRANKNESS Debate Upon Olmstead Resolution Reso-lution an Animated One SOUTHERNERS OUTSPOKEN Declared That Attempt to Enfranchise Enfran-chise the Negro Had Been a Lamentable La-mentable Failure Also That Action Ac-tion of Certain States in Legally I Eliminating the Blades as Factors at the Polls Was in Interest of Civilization and Progress Itesolxi tion Was Finally Referred to the Census Committee Washington Jan 4TIle House today to-day had another spirited struggle over the Olmstead resolution to Investigate the abridgment of the suffrage In certain cer-tain Southern States with a view to rcapporfcionrnent upon the actual basis of suffrage It was finally referred to the Census committee where the opposition oppo-sition desired It to go originally Some of the Republican leaders were not In sympathy with the resolution Mr Ohnstead tried to get Mr Hopkins to agree that the committee would consider con-sider the resolution within a week but the chairman of the Census committee declined to make any pledge to that I efrectDEBATE DEBATE A FRANK ONE The debate upon the resolution was marked by exceeding frankness Some1 of the Southern members avowed that I the attempt to enfranchise the negro had been a lamentable failure and the action of certain States In legally eliminating I elimi-nating the blacks as factors at the polls I they said was In the Interest of civilization civ-ilization and progress After the resolution had been disposed dis-posed of the reapportionment bill was taken up An attempt to agree upoii a tlmefqr the final vote on the bill failed although the general Impression Is that the debate will conclude early next weekSPEAKER SPEAKER HENDERSON ILL Mr Dalzcll of Pennsylvania called the House to order today In the ab sence of Speaker Henderson who was I detained at his home by a severe cold I which he contracted while In New York during the holidays I Immediately after the approval of the Journal half a dozen members were on I their feet demanding recognition Among them was Mr Olmstead who yesterday created a stir by offering the resolution Instruct the Committee on Census to Investigate the alleged abridgment of the right to vote In several sev-eral Southern States But the Speaker pro tern first recognized Mr Lacey of Iowa who presented a privileged reso lutlon asking the President to return 1a minor bill Jn which there was a clerical 1 cler-ical error It was adopted RIVER AND HARBOR BILL Mr Burton of Ohio presented the river and harbor bill In order to clear the way for Mr Olmstead Mr Graff I 1 of Illinois chairman of the Committee i on Claims after stating that it was apparent that no claim bills could be considered today this being the day set apart under the rule for their con sjdcratlon asked unanimous consent to pass the regular order for today until next week Mr Swanson of Virginia objected FILIBUSTER BEGUN The Speaker pro tern was then about to recognize Mr Olmstead when Mr Underwood of Alabama headed him oft with the point of t no quorum The House wag counted but there was only 142 members in the hall Under the operation of the automatic rule the Speaker was about to direct a call ot the House When Mr Underwood interposed Inter-posed with a motion to adjourn and the filibuster was on The vote was taken by ayes and now The motion to ad journ was defeated 83 to 103 OLMSTEAD RESOLUTION The Speaker pro lam held that the pending rjuoBtlon was the vote on the question oC consideration raised against the Olmatead resolution yesterday yester-day During the previous rollcall the leaders on both sides had conferred and an agreement had been reached that the resolution should be recommitted Mr RIchardBon the niinori ty loader formally proposed that this course be followed VOTEON TII 13 PROPOSITION Mr Olmatead replied that he would consider the proposition aCtor the House had voted to consider the reso lution I may say said he that It had been my Intention to follow the course suggested by the gentleman from Tennessee Why not do HO now and save timcV asked Ml Rlijhardson But Mr Olmstead insisted upon a vote on the question of consideration and the roll was called Tho Uouse voted iua to fli to consider the resolution resolu-tion whereupon Mr Richardson moved to recommit the resolution to the Census Cen-sus committee PREVIOUS QUESTION ORDERED Upon Mr Richardsons motion Mr Olmstead demanded the previous ques tion and notwithstanding some dilatory tactics by the Democrats with assistance assist-ance from several Republicans the previous question wtis ordered 0 to 88 Mr Olmsteaa explained his resolu tion had been ofieved not In antagonism to any of the rcapportlonmcnt or to any section or State > but In order that the reapportionment might be bused oh consltutldnal provisions WATiM SPEECH FROM UNDER 1 WOOD Mr Underwood of Alabama made a wulm speech in opposition to the resolution reso-lution lie had hoped he said that such a resolution would not appear In the House The real purpose of the fourteenth amendment had been to en franchise the negro It had failed The fifteenth amendment had been success fut for a time but in the end It had proved a lamentable failure Both amendments had boon mistakes not only to the Democratic but to the Re publican party The time had come now after the bitterness of the war won Over when the people or the South in fairnesq and Justice to themsolveu and the necro race were not trying to oppress the reKro race but only to pLOteCt themselves and their property against maladministration HARD TO UNDERSTAND Ire admOn1ulec1 his friends from the North that they did not llvo among the negroes and did not understand the problem V rq oC the South said he addressing tho HOe are trying to I solve It faithfully to both races and I appeal to you 1C you are in favor of up building the negro race 1C you are In favor of protecting the Investments which the North has sent there to send this resolution to a committee and let it die there IS SECTIONALISM DEAD Mr Williams of Mississippi said that oC recent years some of the people oC the South had listened to the siren voice of the North that sectionalism was dead This resolution would nluck from the eyes of thortc Who had been partially par-tially deceived thevoll that had been I placed over thorn After declaring that the resolution was stupid and Impracticable Imprac-ticable and citing the voting require mCnUs of varioun other States he made an ardent defense of the coUrao of MIs slfislppl and other Southern States There its no man who lovos American Ameri-can civilization said he who is glad In his heart that by constitutional and legal methods analogous to those adopted In MuawiohuscttH Rhode Island Isl-and and other Stairs the South ban solved ibis troublesome and almost un solvablo problem Mr Olmslcad the author of the resolution reso-lution said hG did not want the resolution resolu-tion to die and would move Its reference refer-ence to the Census committee If the chairman of that committee would agree to call the committee together to consider It within one week T WILL DO ITS DUTY Chairman Hopkins said he was not in the mood to make bargaintoday but assurrd Mr Olmstead that his committee commit-tee would do Itsduty Sir Olmstead then made the motion to refer and It was carried without division di-vision REAPPORTIONMENT BILL Mr Hopkins immediately called up the reapportionment bill and opened the debate In a careful explanation of his bill He stated that the majority of the Census committee favored keeping the membership down to the present number U57 from considerations of I economy and Intelligent legislation Mr Shafroth of Colorado wanted Mr Hopkins to explain how It was thaf Colorado would gain one Representative under the system adopted if the totul number was 356 or 3D8 but would not if It were 357 ALABAMA PARADOX Mr Hopkins replied that the fa ct which Mr Shafroth desired was called years ago the Alabama paradox Any system ho said would not deal out exact ex-act Justice to every State The membership I mem-bership was arbitrarily fixed at 357 which made the basis of representation 20SSC8 Dividing the population of the States by this divisor 335 members were assigned The other 22 were assigned as-signed to those having the largest major fractions FAVORITISM OP MINORITY The States Which were opposing this Dill he said were those which lost Representatives Rep-resentatives under Its operation He claimed that the bill oC the minority showed favoritism to Nebraska and Maine each of which would lose one Representative under the basis of the figures prepared by the Director of the Census for a House of 38C members j Those two members lie said were de I llberately filched by the Burlelgh bill from New York and Pennsylvania He I declared that a more unfair bill was I never presented to the House than that I fathered by the gentleman from Maine a Burlelgh The Burlelgh bill he said gave Maine a Representative for each 173C17 Inhabitants If this ratio were I taken in New York Pennsylvania and Illinois New York would have five Pennsylvania three and Illinois three more Representatives than the bill allows al-lows them Mr Shafroth of Colorado followed citing the case of Colorado which would get an additional member If the House wag to consist of 35G or 35S but would lose the additional member at 357 to show that the system upon which the bill was predicated waa unjust At 3 oclock the House adjourned |