Show WILL BE SETTLEDTODA I House Agrees to Vote on Reapportionment Re-apportionment Bi II I I SEVERAL NOTABLE SPEECHES L Crumpackerof Indiana Deals With I Alleged Disfranchisement in the SouthHepburn of Iowa Severely Arraigned the Present Rules as Annihilating An-nihilating the Constitutional Prerogative Pre-rogative of the House Grow of Pennsylvania Compares the Old System With That of the Present I I Washington Jan 7The anImated debase In the House on the reappor I tho tlonment of representation from various Stales Is nearing Us close it being unanimously agreed today that the final vote would be taken before the session closed tomorrow I was expected ex-pected there would be a sequel l today to the exciting clash of Saturday between Mr Liltlefleld of Maine and Mr Hopkins Hop-kins of Illinois hut the killer made no uL 1 I I hhn cavort nt rejoinder ami COIl IJHU imii self with the direction of the measure today to a final vote He expresses confidence thai thc bill bearing his name will be passed tomorrow although al-though there may be 1 slight change giving nn additional member to Florida Flori-da Colorado and North Dakota bring 380 ing the membership up to The nolable speeches today were by lhe Crumpacker of Indiana dealing with the alleged disfranchisement In al wih the South by Mr Hepburn of Iowa severely arraigning the present rule as nnnihllallng the constitutional prerogatives preroga-tives of the House and by Mr Grow of Pennsylvania comparing the old system in the House wllh thai l of the present S SPEAKER HENDERSON ILL Speaker Henderson today was again detained at his home by illness and Mr Dalell of Pennsylvania presided over the House Mr Kitchen of North Carolina the first speaker on the reapporllonment trst supporled the Hopkins bill but said he would vote against the amendment amend-ment requiring the Congressional districts dis-tricts in the several States to be con liguous and compact He said he did not believe Congress had the power to designate the manner Int which the States should make up Congressional districts Air Kitchen then replied at some length to the speech made by Mr Llnncy of North Carolina laSt Saturday Sat-urday attacking the Southern Democrats Demo-crats for disfranchising the negro Mr Leary of Iowa who followed Kitchen also supported lhc Hopkins bill billCRUMPACKERS ADDRESS Mr Crumpacker of Indiana the member mem-ber of the Census committee who presented pre-sented the minority report In favor of reducing the representation in Southern Stales proportionate to the abridgement abridge-ment of the franchise then took the floor for an hour As between the Hopkins Hop-kins and JJurlelgh bills he said he favored fa-vored the laller because It kepi pace wllh the growth t of tlc country He argued ar-gued that during recent years the influence Influ-ence of the House In legislation had steadily diminished a condition due to the fact that the members of thc lower house allowed themselves to be donut natcd by the Senate andjthe Chief Executive Jmtc ecutive I theiiTombeivship wnsto rct main stationary as the years went on Its Influence would continue to decrease REDUCE REPRESENTATION He then developed his argument In favor of reducing representation in certain cer-tain Southern States along the lines of his report He pointed out the voting requirements In Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina and South Carolina and adduced figures to show that In Louis Sana 43 per cent of her male citizens over 21 years old were disfranchised in Mississippi 42 per cent In North Carolina 31 per cent and In South Carolina Caro-lina 13 per cent Mr Crumpacker was frequently interrupted by members of thc delegations from Louisiana North Carolina South Carolina and Mississippi Missis-sippi They besieged him with questions ques-tions and denied many oJils state tons men ts DISCUSSED NEGRO QUESTION 71 Ir Wilson of South Carollnav < spoke in favor of the Burlelgh bill and Snei denlally discussed the ntgio question In the South The worthy and indusirious negro populalion he said was being educated and cared fOIln the South and it was only agalnsl thc criminal class those guilty of an atrocious crime against reclcd women that lynching was dl I HEPBURNS rEW Mr Hepburn of Iowa declared lhat the House was no longer a deliberative body having become so bulky as lo lose Its deliberative functions Moreover the representative character of a member mem-ber of Congress had become mergcu and lost in this unwieldy body so thai individual action had become Impossible Impossi-ble Mr Hepburn expressed time belief that it would be better to decrease rather than increase the size of the House The whole scheme and place of the House d under the u Constitution Mr 1 Hcp ourn declared Was suuvcrieu uustruycu and annihilated by the rules of the House by which no member was able lo be heard on any measure without the consent of the olllclals and committees commit-tees to whom thc power waf surrendered surren-dered Members of the Senate were 5n crested In seeing thc Housc membership member-ship further Increased for that carried with it the Increase of influence and power of each Individual Senator and the further domination of the House by the Senate Mr Long of Kansas argued in favor of the Burlelgh bill GROW FOR HOPKINS BILL Mr Grow of Pennsylvania favored the Hopkins bill and gave an Interest ing1 comparison between the working of the House I in time early days when the membership was far more lmitedwllh thc disorderly and unrepresentative character of the body today Mr Pearson of New Hampshire supported sup-ported the Burleigh bill and argued against the Crumpacker bill saying I that the hatter would be so carried out in thc South as to wipe out the few I Republican members now coming from that section He asserted that the lime was fast coming when dlsfranchise I ment practiced In the House would be wiped out At 510 thc House adjourned I I ad-journed |