Show L4 JLJJvj I flA9 A RED = HOT DEBATE I Littlefield and Hopkins Have a Number of V Sharp Exchanges Former Proving to Be a Hard Hitter V Discussion Was Over the Reapportionment Bills i the Maine Man AdV Ad-V vacating the Burleigh MeasureMr V Hopkins Confident His Measure Will Pass While Advocates of Burleigh BiJLAte Con I fident That Their Measure Will Be Passed 1 I Washington Jan 5The feature of I the debate upon the reapportionmcnt r I bill In the House today wasa twohour speech by Mr Littlefield of Maine In I favor of the Burlelgh bill to increase the membership of the House to 3 < SHe I I He ha1 a number of exchanges I with Mr Hopkins chairman of the I I Census committee In whlchhe sustained I I sus-tained his reputation as a hardhitter V I V and vigorous debater V During the course of the V day Mr I Hopkins expressed willingness to accept ac-cept an amendment to his bill which would give additional Representative each to Florida Colorado and North Dakota the three States with majority fractions unrecognized in his bill He claims assured victory for his bill but the advocates of the Burlelgh bill insist I almost as confidently that the Hopkins bill will be beaten REAPPORTIONMENT BILL Speaker Henderson again today detained at his home by illness and Mr Dalzcll of Pennsylvania by designation desig-nation of the Speaker presided over the deliberations of the House Without Intervening business the debate on the rcapportlonment bill was resumed yr Lfttleficld of Maine was the llrst I speaker His argument was In favor of the Burlelgh bill That bill provided J for 1 House of 3SC members Mr Lit tlefleld declfired that the Hopkins bill could properly he entitled An Act to Cripple the State of Maine In Her Representation in the House and In tho Electoral College He resented what lie termed Mr Hopkinss assault on the State of Maine V SHARP COLLOQUY I That statement drew from Mr Hop klan an indignant denial which led to a sharp exchange between the two members V Mr Llttlefleld sarcastically called Mr Hopkinss attention to the men who like Lovejoy and Fuller had gone tqi IJUiioJaao 3ve distinctionvto that i tat e 1et ho satdr the gentle V mans speech yesterday was saturated V with a pettifogging assault upon Maine EXPERT AT PETTIFOGGING If there Is any member V this House 10 is an expert on pettifogging it is the gentleman Irom Maine retorted V re-torted Mr Hopkins VV VThe V V gentleman from Mane replied V Mr Littlefield never defended a criminal crim-inal but he has prosecuted several and V he is prosecuting one nowIt That is Just the sort of a remark I V had expected from the gentleman judging by his previous course upon this floor answered Mr Hopkins PROPOSITION OF MINORITY V The proposition of the minority was I Mr Llttleflold said that no State should lose representation under the new apportionment He called attention atten-tion to the paradoxes Mr Uopkinss system of computation The system seemed designed he said to play battledore bat-tledore and shuttlecock with the Stale of Maine In It goes and out it goes V V said he whether the representation goes up or down The gentleman points out the alleged V al-leged paradoxes under tho operation of the figures of the Census Director Interposed In-terposed 1 Mr Hopkins yet the Bur leigh bill Is predicated upon the same process V V CALLED TO ORDEP V After a sharper exchange than usual with Mr Hopkins the chair was obliged to call the gentlemen to order and to call attention to the rule which provides that the gentlemen on the floor cannot be Interrupted without the consent of the chair and also to the rule that members cannot address each V other by the second person The gentleman has already inler lupted me about twentyfive times In V violation of the rules observed Mr Liltlcficld as he was about to resume And the gentleman from Maine has violated the rules with icferpnce to the V econ 1 pelgon about fitly times ex claitiied Mr Hopkins V v GOES FOR HOPKINS V V V The gentleman becoming exceedingly I V exceed-ingly technical l and sensitive retorted V jlr Llttleneld l I will refer to him later V in the third person and later still I anticipate that I he will have shrunlc sufficiently to permit me to refer to him V In the fourth or fifth person I and pcr l naps in tile end 1 can eliminate mm altogether Proceeding Mi Little field argued that the Constitution In providing for decennial apportionment contemplated an increase of the membership mem-bership until the House should become be-come unwieldy The Increase wan ne cefabary to keep pace with the growth of population ABRIDGMENT OF SUFFRAGE V Mr Shattuc of Ohio followed Mr Llttlelleld He insisted that In making time rcapportlonment the representation representa-tion should reduced in all States = where tho right to vote abridged He V claimed ten States abridged tile suffrage V suf-frage to an average of 20 per cent They V were California 77 por cent Connecticut V Connecti-cut 53 Delaware 113 Louisiana J5 S Maine 55 Massachusetts 62 Mississippi 40 North Carolina 357 South Carolina 4 15 and Wyoming 31 I Mr Klutz of North Carolina a member mem-ber of l1 Census committee argued In favor of the Hopkins bill He favored R57 because he thought the Housewas V already large enough and because on that basis there would be no partisan advantage to either party In the House J or Electoral college DEFENDS NEBRASKANS Mr Southerland Neb replied briefly to the strictures upon Nebraska and its population made by Mr Hopkins I j yesterday He said one nad as well V accuse McKinley of being responsible for a loss of a Representative In OhioV V as to say that Bryanlsm was responsible responsi-ble for a similar loss in Nebraska DEMOCRATIC METHODS Mr Llnney Rep N C argued that under their oaths to support the Constitution Con-stitution members in voting upon the reapporflonment qqpsUon must Aakej cognizance of the abridgment of tfe t V suffrage In the Southern States He V gave an entertaining description of Democratic election methods In North Carolina Scoring the I iJ9JinJ2rl118 Democrats mner1 lessly f r < their action He was espe daily severe In bin condemnation of V their course in HUns the Legislature l V together last summer to pass a law to prevent the issue of writs of man a1 damus Mr Sims Dem Tenn asked If tho real TX cause of the alleged crimes re v > r cited by Mr Linnoy was not to pre < vent negio qomlnation V V PuRE ROT Mr Llnney replied that fno fear oil negro domination was puro rot that all pretext of such fear could be de stroyed by requiring all officers ot the State and county to give bond V Mr Small Dem NCasked Mr Ilnney JC he charged fraud in his dis i trlct trlctHow V V How many negroes are thcra In your district asked Mr Linney II do not know but the negroes hava not a majority replied Mr Small Then replied Mr Linney quickly it 1 is possible that you may have I squeezed through by leaving hair on both sides or the hole without stew Ing1 The House at 630 p m ad < journed jOlrncdAMENDNG V AMENDNG ARMY BIU T Pettig ews Dilatory Tactics Delays Action on the Amendments Washington Jan 5 While the Senate V Sen-ate wag In session for more than three hours today little In the way of Important Impor-tant legislation was accomplished The committee amendments to tho army reorganization re-organization bill to which no objection had been raised were agreed to but none of the contested anfendments were considered Dilatory tactics svero employed em-ployed by Mr Pettlgrew of South Da kota to prevent the consideration of matters that Tould advance the business busi-ness of the Senate A few unobjected measures wero token from the calendar calen-dar and passed The resolutions offered yesterday by Pettlgrew were continued until Monday Mon-day V dayA VV A bill extending the mining laws to saline lands was passed declares all unoccupied public lands containing salt deposits to be subject to location and purchase under the mining law CONSIDER ARMY BILL The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the army reorganization V reorganiza-tion bill Mr Proctor of Vermont offered of-fered as an amendment to section 22 V the provision Introduced by himself yesterday concerning vacancies In the position of chlefof staff The amendment amend-ment was adopted When the section of the bill was reached providing for the appointment of volunteer officers to be officers in the I regular array on extended discussion V ensued Mr Money declared there wcro many officers in the volunteer army who were as clearly entitled as gentlemen and officers to commissions In the regular regu-lar army as the cadets who by hazing and by their testimony before investigating investi-gating committees are today disgracing disgrac-ing the whole country at West Point The committee amendment providing that volunteer officers might be appointed ap-pointed to Second Lieutenancies was V disagreed to thus restoring the House provision that volunteer officers might V be appointed to the grade of First Lieutenant Lieu-tenant DECLARES IT PROSORnTIV m Commenting upon this part of thfc bill Mr Daniel declared that he wholly V disagreed with the committee which V had drawn the bill As to the proposition proposi-tion for the appointment of volunteer V officers to the regular army Mr Daniel V said It looks like a skillful piece of engineering by a regular army officer to keep out of time army many ot the brightest and best military spirits of V the country This is the most prescriptive prescrip-tive bill against the volunteers of this country that has ever been Presented He declared sarcastically that the bill constituted a beautiful welcome to the volunteers returning from time Philip pines providing as it did that no vol untecr officer could look forward to any better grade than that of First Licuten This is on aSi Jn the regular army elusive bill he declared provided of being exclusive I fOr the purpose the mllltarj V for turning over am not Sfrairs of the country to the regmilai nrmv Vrlt Mr Hawley offered trom ino iuiILLLui committee an amendment providIng V that the President of the United States shall have authority to fix the component com-ponent part of time army ration IC V was This ° completed the bill VV so far as theV V concerned amendments vero committee ticept amendments all otlih committee offered had been those to whioh objection fered Mr JBSl been dhmairman agreell of to theCommtt tried to oltal V tec on AppraPrIati9 Jud consideratiOfl for the Iegislatii bill appropriation cIalziild executive objected pettIreV hilt Mr titd from belt called U V V Bills were thOsePaed were caiendarand arnOr3 For the relief of OcCUpants the foilowftmg itncitiinClUdCd In lie Aigodons pants of preventing the grant Vgrant in ArlzoIift trees in Virig of title to the laud of big California |