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Show of which he knew next to nothing, aa "unwelcome states." The jiress of the east, the great, wise press that gets ita cue from Wall atreet, delighta in referring to the "rotten boroughs" of the weat. What would a constitutional convention made up u-ostly of men who obtain their ideaa from auch iiewspaper do with atate representatives in the rate, were the present safeguards broken downt The fathers fixed the present , representation to protect the states, the strong as well aa the weak, and it will be a sorry day when their work shall be undone. THE REAL TRUTH. Senator Heyburn of Idaho made a speech in the senate the other day which the people of thia country coun-try would do well to head. An extract from it reads s follows: ' I kaow th old argument. I hsv herd it. They y: I not an election bv th people of the stale for senator just as much sa slection a it is if thy act through ea medium, th legislature! No; it is aol. Th people of th tte are individual members of thi grt govern ment Is bum ststos there are millions of them, and ia other hundred of thousands; but th hundreds of thou and represent as much in thia body as do the millions. I am aatonished at th representatives of soms of tbe smsller ststee supporting a measure of this kind, knowing know-ing that they are only adding to the agitatioa of th hour that mv pray God it wilf not reeult in a constitutional constitu-tional convention. Whn th constitutions! convention hs signed its work th eld constitution with all it r strict ions is gon. .., '.. '. ... , I hare been reminded, and I have beard it even pokn her in term of confidence, that the prohibition in the constitution against the destruction of the equal repro-wntotion repro-wntotion in th ent could nvr be changed. A con-(titutional con-(titutional convention bigger than th constitution; a eon-motional convention can juat a wll change that clans as it can change any other. It ran adopt a ronati-Icli ronati-Icli n that ia different in vrv respect in principle or it detail, if it wants to. When the people of the I'nited K-ates meet in . constitutional convention there is no power on earth greater than the will of that body, and tawv can. aad they will, provide that the states shsll be represented in this body nccording lo their populsttos We should ths h two houses of congress upon th SLtne basis, representing th am lmnt of our peo- pie Ose of them would be a little larger tha th other and ita member would aav a longer term of office, but there would be no ether distinction. Instead of representing rep-resenting the states of which this natioa is composed, they would repreeent themselves, aubiect to review by the peonle at interval. Mr President, th question n) most senoue; it iavolvee th orinciol noon which the government will aome dsy rest with its life nt stake. The habit of amending the rnstituiioa i a dangerou on. . That is the true business. Mr. Cleveland in hia ismorce v hen prenident referred to auch state as cl.J n. with hi views on the silver question, |