f n,eth Year-No. 27" OGDEN CITY, UTAH FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1920. LAST EDITION 4 P M
I WEST CAINS POLITICALLY FROM CENSUS I
1 CONFESSION MADE IN MURDER CASE
I W o . A
If ALLEGED DANGEROUS RADICALS UNDER ARREST
I COX DECLARES
1 SUPREME COURT
I IS HUGE ISSUE
KN Makeup of Body to Hinge on
Election Resiut. Nominee
FOUR JUSTICES TO BE
NAMED BY PRESIDENT
Ballot to Determine Character
Ot Men Named for High
PADUCAH, Ky.. Oct. B.-Bffecrt of
the presidential contest upon prospec
LUIh tie United Btat-es supreme court va-
Icancles was declared by Governor Cox
of iihio. in an address her.- today, to
be "Mi" real danger of ;i reactionary
victory, next to the scrapping of the
league of nations."
The Democratic presidential candi
date stated thai at least four va an
, Its on the high court were in pros
pect and referring to the senate s con
trol over confirmations and to Senator
Harding as the "reactionary" candi
dal", he added:
T-- 'Beside it would naturally follow
that u reactionary presldi nt wpujd ap
point four reactionary members of the
supreme court."
Ill s( IN I (ill IM I ball
Xhe governor declared this was one
ItTiHiI of the reasons why the "senatorial oil -
Mf garchv" should be defeated.
'Then are several reasons why the
H! senate oligarchy should not be per-
H' mltted to win this flection," he said
H' Throughout the year the senate has
trespussed on the authority of the
H' hmisi' of rcpresfiit.it Th
Jj tutlon provides that all legislation pro-
Id ing for the raising of revenues shall
Hl bi Initiated in the house. Vet there
ha probablv not heeii riff meas
fll ore in the las! 5 years which was not
H changed in line after the
Hl enacting clause once it reached the
l OR BIG STAKJE S.
1 It will le seen at a glance that the
Hl senatorial crowd is playing for big
H! stakes, which are no more or less than
j an absolute control of the three con- !
j stltutional brandies of our govern -
fli mcnt. No president of the United I
States will appoint any one that he
H deems unworthy of a place on the
L highest rt in the land, but he must
T be reminded that the senatorial nomi-
m '" ' '"r ,m presidency has confirmed
1 his faith many times In the theory of
dural government- which means that
Hra lie will not only confer with the group
around him. but that this same group
PRH has the constitutional right to apply its
Uay check if (lie president should show
any1 slgn.-t of independence."
BOGUS REVENUE STAMPS
SEIZED AT PRINT SHOP
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8. Secret'
service men today raided a printing
plant here which is alleged to have
turned out thousands of counterfeit
1 internal revenue stumps to lie used on,
H cheap whiskey and colored alcohol in
bottli mndard brands Cuts ;or
nterfcltlng official government
jH franked envelopes and whiskey labels
H bearing the names of a Baltimore dls-i
t tilery were also discovered.
B Tli re men w lfo were arrested in con-
nectlon with the raid were held in,
eight thousand dollars Kill ach after
a hearing before United Slates Com-
I CONFEDERATE VETERANS
JOIN IN CLOSING PARADE
HOUSTON. Tex.. Oct. S. Ideal
weather greeted the annual parade of
confederate veterans today in what
may be their last march together.
The usual escorts of police and na
tional guardsmen had places at the
head of the procession, followed by I
SflBS Sadie Ruth Aldrldge. of El Paso,
sponsor for the south.
First place aniong the veterans was
awarded to Admiral A. Wright of;
Jacksonville, Fla one of the organ-1
Izers of the confederate navy.
ANTI SUFFRAGE ACTION
CARRIED TO HIGH COURT
I, Washington, Oct. 8. Harry 8;
Me- cartney. Chicago attorney, carried
H to the supreme court today his efforts
to compel Becrelary Colby to prom u l-
n gat the Joint peace resolution passed
B by congress last May and vetoed by the
mi. MeCcarthey filed a petition for
writ of ecrtcrorl asking that the case
f be taken from I he Lnstrlcl of Colum-
WH Ida court of appeals where , i pend-
TRAINED DONKEY
KEEPS U. S. CIRCUS
FOLKS IN RUSSIA
TEREJOKI, Finland. Oct. 7.
Tom an1 Anna Belling.
American circus performers,
are unable to enter Finland be
cause there is in the entourage
a trained donkey and several
educated dogs. The Sellings
were in Russia and after sev
eral trying months, obtained
permission from the covict
government to leave the coun.
try. They peached the Finnish
border in safety but found the
regulations against shipment of
1 livestock from Russia prevent
them from entering Finland
unless they abandon their per
forming animals.
MISSOURI TO "
OBSERVER SAYS
Both Parties Well Organized.
However, and Tough
Fight Looms
B MARK SULLIVAN
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. S. Har
ding (8 in Missoifti today and will
return again before the election. Cox
has already spoken in ihrce west
fern cities of the slate and is ex
pected ni ike one more speech in
St i.oui later In the campaign. Uu
' t i I after these visits, it probably leans
B IM tie toward the Republicans.
There la no evidence here of the
country-wide landslide condition
which the Republicans claim and
which undoubtedly does (.lst In sev
eral parts of the country, conditions
in Missouri do not vary greatly from
normal, but "normal" for Missouri
has come to be almost as often Re
publican as remocratic. Changes
have been taking place in Missouri's
population. An cx-governor, who un
doubtedly knows the state well, tells
me there aie more native Mlssourlans
in J 'klahoma am) Texas than in Mis
souri itself. And n proportion, as
the native Missourinn moves out.
there is an inllux. especially in the
southeastern patt of the slate, of
larnurs and others from Illinois,
mostly Republicans, moreover, here
M elsewhere, during the war demand
for city labor, the country negro of
the south has been coming into the
Cltiea and solidifying the Republican
city vote.
WELL ORGANIZED
The Republh an here are well or- ;
pnuiiaed and will be able to register
their maximum vote and get it to
the polls The Democrats are well 1
orgauized. too, much better than in
most states. In fact, the local Dem
ocratic organization in Missouri has
been able to send some funds on to
the national committee in New York '
an experience which musi have been
agreeably surprising to the Mew York
headquarters The Democrats here
will be able to accomplish all that
organisation can fairly be expected
to accomplish, but the thing thaf no '
organization can accomplish or
change, or even find out. is the dis
position and Intentions of the Hon
lauir. H Reed. Reed Is a"1aw unto 1
himself at all limes and Just now a
little more so than usual. Reed knows
Well then- isn't a chance of his re-!
turning to the senate or even get
ting any other honor or emolument '
from his party. That being so. Reed i
isn't subject to discipline. He can't
be lorced into line, and the only ques
tlon remaining is whether persuasion i
can do whai Intimidation can't.
OFF THE RESERVATION
For the present Reed is off the
reservation, cont-piciouslv and notori
ously off. When Cox was here on
Saturdaj Reed didn't afreet him
Reed's friends said he had gone on ;
a duck hunting expedition, which
Qad 111 atlvely demanding bis
attention loi a long time. Then some
one looked up the statutes and is
said to have discovered that the1
law .sn t off ducks until November I
1. TherUpOH, feed's failure to ap-
(Continued on I'age Two.;
DETAILS GIVEN
ON KILLING OE
1 RICH IGEEEi
Man Held in Girl Case Says
He Helped Slay
J. C. Denton
DESCRIBES -PARTY" IN
LOS ANGELES HOME
Sody Buried in Cellar of House
After Murder Is Com
mitted SAA FRANCISCO, Oct. s. Jn-
-1 1 1 Rodrlgn . -.!, repudiated In
every detail today "confes
sion" of yestcrd to the Ban
PrnuclAco police thai he killed i-
Denton, l. Angeles capitalist,
according t i purported state
ment by Rodriguez appearing In
tin s;ni Francisco ( nil.
I
SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 8- Joseph
Rodriguez, under arrest here for the
abduction of an 18 -year-old girl es
lerday. confessed to ih- murder of
J. C. Denton, wealthy Loa Angeles
mining promoter accorduig to a state
ment by Capiaiq of Police John
1 .VMeara, but when the alleged "con
Cession'' was made "public, doubt be
ban to be -ast upon it.
Rodriguez was guoted by Captain
1 Meaia as raying that he and another
man strangled Denton to death With
a rope in his own home while a wo
man looked on. that they then robbed'
the "II man's home of money and'
stocks of largo value and that other
persons in the house buried ihe body ;
In the cellar where it was found a few
days ago sealed up in a small room
and covered with earth.
M SPEI T LRR.ES iid
Rodriguez, according iu the- police
came- here several days ago Horn Los'
Angeles; professedly to assist a Los'
Angeles detective who accompanied
him. investigate the Denton case lo-1
rally He professed knowledge of the
perpetrators, it was suid.
Then came his arrest In connection I
with he alleged abduction of an
year-old San Francisco girl For two
aays local i-oiir..- questioned him con
cerning tin- Denton case ;,i the Jill
rodaj during the questioning he called'
for n priest The priest came and ,
ater the confession' was given Cap
tain OAfeara, the latter said
FI1 E IN PARI
Rodriguez's statement declared five
persons Including himself were hav- I
ing a partj 1 in the Denton home
wnen the oil man came In in a suu-
pIcmiMitary statemem ,,, ,wp.1.r
men, be declared there had previously
been In a discussion of Denton's prob
able wealth. Fpon his appearance ac
cording to the statement give,, out by
he police. ,i member of the ,,arP,
handed Rodriguez a pistol and told '
him to keep watch bver Denton.
1 he .statement continued
Denton come after nie, but I kept
shoving him back, not wanting to use
the gun lie stai -led lo l.i- k and punch
me, but as soon as he kicked nie and
nearly put me out I started after him
and gave him a couple of punches ;
1 started choking him. Afterward my
strength nearly gave out and he was
'"" ei He hollered and
said croak the
when he told me that, he handed
me a i op- . a pic,,., that looked Ilka
a rope uaed on a trunk and put his
gun at mj ribs. I kind of knocked '
the old man down and put the root
around h,s neck and as i did not have
strength enough left, pu'led,
one was and 1 pulled the other while
we had old man Denton pinned down
We waited around for an hour more
or less. When we were sure he was
dead, we weUi out and walked sev
eral blocks and took a street ear."
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MEXICO'S NEW PRESIDENT
TALKS AT EL PASO FETE
EL PASO, Texas. D;t. 6. President
elect. Alvaro Obrexon of Mexico. Gov.
: V P, Hobby of Texas; Gov. t' A
LarraaolO, of New Mexico, and Go.
Thomas B, Campbell of Arizona, were
guests Of the International Exposition
and Military Carnival which is being
held here this w eek.
In tho course of an address General
lObregon said:
A year ago Mexico was recognized
by the United States. The situation
I today is very different; we are not
recognized by the United States but
We have the respect and confidence of
the American people and I would hav(, I
rather have (he respect and confidence1
of the people of the Cnited States than!
official recognition of the government'
LORD MAYOR MACSWINEY
IS TROUBLED BY HEART
L XD()N, Oct 8. The Irish Self
Determination league statement Issued
at 1:10 p. m. today said Terence Mac-I
Swlney w as suffering from trouble J
With Ids heart and was unable to bold
conversation with his relatives at brix-:
ton prison where be is on n hunger
strike. 1
I FARMERS HAVE
PLAN TO HALT '
PRICE JUGGLING
CHICAGO. Oct. 8. Repre-i
sentatives of all farmers' or-i
ganiations in the middle west
met here today and announced
that they would request month
I ly statistics of visible domestic
and world supply of livestock
from the national bureaus of
crop estimates and markets.
This measure, they said, wouid
aid in the prevention of the
manipulation of prices.
I Establishment of farmers'
cooperative firms at stock-.
I yards was also to be consid
I ered.
.
'UNION PACIFIC
FREIGHT WRECK
BLOCKS TRAINS
Ten Cars ?nd Two Locomo
tives In Ditch Near
Rock Springs
Two engines and ten e&rs are In the
ditch five miles cast of Green River.
Wyoming, as the result of the derail
ment of a Union Pacific freight (rain
early this morning. None of tho crew
was hurt.
The accident was attributed to ,
spread rail by Union Pacific ofliuals.
According to reports reaching local
railroad officials, the train, a doubli -header,
bad just pulled out of Hock
springs o few miles when the engines
-truck the spread rail and went off the
track
Ki t IvKKs VI WORK.
YYre king crews have been dis
patched from Green Riyer to the
scene of the derailment. Traffic will
be held up several hours, it is said.
Trains No. 19, 21, 1, 9. 7 from the
eat are not expected to reach Ogden
until after J o'clock tonight. Trains
can not be 6hunK'd around the wreck
as the line is single-tracked.
Eu.-a bound traffic will not be- de
layed from Ogden. Stationmaster S. H.
Tracy said, as he has been adVlBi i
that the line will be cleared by the
time trains from Ug.lcn reach that
point.
ETPEC1 l TRAIJi HERE
A special train will be mad up in
Ogden to accomodate west bound pas
sengers over the Southern Pacific.
Residents of the small towns served
by the L'nlon Pacific east of )gden
have postponed their contemplated j
trip 10 Salt Jake for the ninet -first
conference of the L. D. S church, ac
cording to reports from Morgan.
Mrs. brig Robinson, wife of the
Morgan county sheriff. Bald that
crowds assembled at the .Morgan and
Peterson stations, broke up when the
news bf the wreCH was received. Those
who will not go to SaH Lake bv au-
lomobil-- will attempt to d one
Of the trains Scheduled to arrive this
aft moon she said.
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ROMANCE OF EX-KAISER'S
REFUGE IS REVEALED
AMfcRONUKN. Holland. Ocl. 7 A
romance 0f the stay of former. Kmper-
Of Willi mi of Germany In Holland eul
minated today in the marriage of Cap
tain Sigurd von llsemann. his adjut
ant, to Countess Elisabeth Bentlnck.
daughter of William's host at Ameron
gen. The one time emperor and hi- nil
were present at the official ceremony
In the town hall. Augusta Victoria'
lu re asked divine blessings on the new
l.v married couple At Che puhlli
church ceremony which the. royal ex
ile.s did not attend. Minister Rarbas!
said:
"Through the fall of an emperor,
this couple found each other."
The former kaiser gave the bride
a Turkish carpet as a wedding prea-
ent.
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SOLDIER TRUCK BOMBED:
ONE KILLED. MANY HURT
CORK, Ireland, Oct. 8. Civilians j
bombed a military lorry whUh wafl
passing through Barrack street tins
morning. One soldier was killed and
three dangerously wounded
TWO soldiers who escaped injury'
fired on the attackers. The street wnsj
filled at the time with peopb proceed-'
ing to work Two men Und . woman
were shot In the legs.
HALF TON OF
RED PAMPHLETS
TAKEN IN RAID
Plan for Revolution in Amer
ica Outlined, Police
Declare
PROCLAMATION SENT
BROADCAST IN U. S.
Articles in Russian Call tor
Murder and Destruction
Of Foes
CHICAGO. Oct 8. Arrest. of sixf
other radicals in St Paul and Milwau
kee are pen. ling, following the seizure
I here lost night of Nlcolal John Jasxln-j
'ski and John Holdeni and a uuantlty
of anarchistic liter, ture declared to
have disclosed a revolution try plot.1
i In department of justice announced
today Warrants have been issued.
KILLINGS PI IN NED
Pederal authorities allege the plot
ters ulsn planned to assassinate the
jmorc important offn lals of state
Jazzinskl and Holoeni willl be ar
raigned under two charges; first, the
violation of the espionage act and the,
other conspiracy to overthrow the g" -eminent.
Ponds of $25,UOO each will
,be asked according to John Hoddte.
4ssistanT district attorn.
Sentences to terms of hard labor
in addition' to deportation will be ask
ed hereaftei In cases of convicted radi
cals. J. P. Rooney, investigator of the
j department of Justice, said today un-l
jder the new federal plan rf prosecu-'
i ion.
TWO IRRESTED
CHICAGii. Oct 8. Discovery of
I quantities of radical literature In the
I esnin of "i olai Fohn Jazzin.sk i.
and Joe lloloepi, declared to be tw-
of the most dangerous radicals In
America who were arrested here last
night was announced by agents Of th-
i partment of justice todayj
, In Jazzlnski's possession was found
nearly half a Ion of COmmunifll n;i-
- i s. including samples of a new pam
phlet advocating armed revolution bj
foreign elements In this country One
hundred thousand of these pamphlets
were said to have been shipped by ex
; press from Chicago to other cities
Tuesday Chief among the documents,
detectives said, was the proclamation
of the union of Russian workers, call
ling upon al lits members to rise and
overthrow the government of the
United States bj force of arms, utiliz
ing murder and destruction to gain
j their ends.
This proclamation was printed m
I Russian, the agents said, and tra na
tation of it revealed a complete plan
i for the revolution.
REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS
TO INVADE THE SOUTH
CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Senator Harry
S. New. chairman of the Republican
speakers' bureau announced today that
Senator Hiram W'. Johnson, of Cali
fornia, would anive in Chicago ii-t
week to take an active part in the lif
Pttblican campaign and that Governor
Calvin Coolldge, vice presidential can
didate, accompanied i Governor Low
den, of Illinois Governor Morrow of
Kentucky and Job Hughes, of New
York would swing I h rough the border
stales oi the -..nth, beginning iii tob. r
:8.
Senator Johnson, it was said, will
ieae tin- oast tomorrow ami arrive
here Tuesdaj Definite speaking date's
win not be arranged until his arrival,
but several speecln I in the middle
west are planned.
: OO
MAY SEIZE BREWERIES
FOR DRY LAW VIOLATION
' I
CHICAGO, uct. 8. Collector Harry
W. Mager of the 'internal revenue de
partment announced today that the
cas. s of 7.'. Chicago breweries and I.
00" saloons, whose owners are alleged
to have manufactured and sold i
with .1U per cent or more alcoholic
content, would be presented to Federal
Judge Land is when he opens court
next Wednesday.
Mr Mager forecast confiscation of
the breweries and saloons and saldi
violators would be prosecuted to the
limit.
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FAR EAST TRADE WITH '
AMERICA SHOWS GROWTH
WASHINGTON, , t 8. Commerce
with the Far East thus far this yea r
has amounted to approximate! pet
cent of the foreign trade of the Cnited
States, compared with 17 per cent last
year, according to a summary issued
today by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce.
Cor the eight months ended with
August exports to the Orient aggregat-i
cd . 7 7 . 5,(100. n,0. an increase of $136,-1
uoo.ooo over the same months of i9i.
while imports from the Par Baet
amounted to $ 1,1 is, 000,000 an Increase
of M2. 000,000. I
4-
QHE gets $62,000 i ycai is
alimony from licr former
husband, William Barton
i French. Nq wonder she's i I
laughing.
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kWSJEAWli;. FRENCH
GREAT BRITAIN
THREATENS TO
TAKE ACTION
Release ot British Prisoners
Held By Bolsheviki De
manded Oct. 10
LONDON, Oct. 8 Great Britain his
threatened lo take ' cci tain action"
against soviet. Russia if steps are not
taken bs Odtdher i" for the release
of British prisoners b- id by the bol
shevik! says the Herald, organ of la
loi. which this morning prints what
purports to be the text of notes ex
I Changed by the British and soviet gov-
1 ernments.
Leonid Krasaln, head of the Rus
sian bolshevik trade mission here, has
rcplb-d on behalf of the bolshevik re
gime that it will promise to fulfill
I the conditions required by Great Brit
ain when the latter carries out her
part of tin- bargain made lasl July
for (he mutual release ol all prisoners
and cessation pf til hostile action.
I KM Tl' XDMIllI )
WASHINGTON Oct. .s Existence
of friction among elements of the co"'
iinunist party in Russia "as admitted
!by M. Zinovieff. member dl the . en
tral executive committee of the com
munlst party at the all Russian con
ference of the body just held at Pctro
grad, according to dispatches toda) re
ceived by th state department.
I Poverty, lack of food and the
'gloomy military situation were given
bv Zlnoviefl us th chief LUSea --t -li--
satisfaction
According to the reports Zinovieff
noted With alarm th tendency tow. ul
bureaucracy among the sovieta
j Cither dspatch'es o the department
indicated serious disturbances of an
anti-Bolshevik character in the l"k
raine The army . t" General I'awlen-
kos, which crossed the Sbrucz, about
September 28 ami was recently report
,ed to be near Wihhica, has pushed 00
into the interior.
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BALLOONS OF 4 NATIONS
ENTERED IN TROPHY RACE I
HI KM I . H I A M, Ala.. Oct. S. Seven j
baloons three representing the Unit-i
ad Stales, two' from Italy, one from;
France, and one from Belgium- -haJ
be-n entered in Hie Intematlohaj Gor
don Bennett trophy race which starts!
from Birmingham October 2S
The American pilots, according to'
the list of official entries received to I
day. will be Ralph L pson, prest nt,
holder of th- International cup. in the
balloon "Goodyear II,' Lieutenant
Richard B. Thompson, Iu an army bal
loon, ami ii K Honeywell in the!
Kansas City II
Captain blirechauei will represent
Prance while the Belgian pilot wi bjs
Lieutenant Ernest Denuyter in the
"Belglca."
For I inly . Major Chevalier Joseph
Valh will pilot 'he "Audens," and .Mu
Jor Hugo Madori the "'i n umphale 'l."
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SARDINA'S BLOODY FEUD
ENDS IN RECONCILIATION
RGMF. ict. 7. Eight Sardinian
families which have b.en principals in
vendetta for ti'i years have become
nconctl. d, according to reports to the
Giornale d Italia Sln.c the feud be
gan there have bcen 7 1 murderB and
much propertv la mage done by no in
bers of the families involve, I
The bishop of Tempio. where most
of the families reside officiated at the
ceremony of reconciliation, which was
conducted in a crowded church, there!
being 200 identified with the feud in
attendance. After the bishop had giv
en the men his blessing, the feudists
embraced and took the oath r recdn-
Clllatlon A te (bum was then sung
by the entire congregation.
SHAKEUP DUE I
IN CONGRESS
OVER FIGURES I
Census Shows West and South
Gain Over Eastern
FIFTY NEW SEATS IN
HOUSE NOW CALLED FOR
Indications Point, However, to
Reduction, Not Increase,
In Members j
WASHINGTON Oct. 8 (Bythu
Associated Press.) Examination of
the final census inures ..f the country
which place tho total population of
tb continental United states at 10:.,.
-; 1 " Indli the and H
- mth proportionately win gain more n
B political way than the east or middlo
west through Increased membership in
the house ,,f representativei, more
votes in the electoral college and iu
larger delegations to the national po
litl. conventions. H
This result will determine Whatever
basis of apportionment Is adopted by
congress next winter, fixing the size
of the next house, which in turn is
reflected In the olectoral college and
" nventlons of the big political
III T V ; v SEATS.
I AS a result of the increase 13,710.
842 lc population during the past ten
fifty new seats could be added
, to the house. Should the present
I -ei-.-hip of 130 be left unchanged
Increasing the ...sis ol apportion
ment there will have to bo a transfer
lot thirteen seats, now held by twelve
to nine other states.
I For I he past half century the prece
dent has I. - u to increase the size of
the house so as to prevent loss of exist
ing representation by any state
GAINS l OR S I 11 ES,
If this j)recedent Is followed Hi is
year fi. additional representatives'
(seats must be give,, to California, four
.each for New York, uhio. Pennsyl
Ivanla and Michigan; thr - to fllmois
land Texas, two to Massachusetts, New
Jersey and North Carolina and ohm
l.a.h lo Alabama. Arlxdna, Connectl
l ut. Georgia, Maryland. Montana, New
I Mexico, Oklahoma, regon. South
'a r ol i na, Tennessee, Washington. West
vTrginia, Wisconsin, Virginia. Arkansas
and Minnesota
t'ongressbmal leaders are strongly
opposed to anv large increase in the
as they legard the present mem-
bership of 435 as toe unwieldy. When
i the house census . ommittr e. headed by
! I '. pi eseniat Iv , Sng.l of New York,
I begins consideration of 'the problem.
of fori wdl be mad.- to hold down the
- j t pressure.for the Increase
i- peeled to come from the states
which would benefit from a larger
house. 'Ph.- present apportionment ! -I
sis is 211,877 inhabitants or its ma-
Joi fraction to the congressional dls-
ijjjjjj
(imi WO l D LOS.
By holding the house membership to
435, gains would be distributed with
three o California. two to Michigan
and iihlo. and one each to Connectl
cut. New Jersey, North Carolina, Ok
lahoma, Texas and Washington. To
offset these gains, Missouri would be
fore, d t.. bis,, two congressmen, while
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska
Khode lslvud. Vermont and Virginia
would lose one each. All other slates
would retain their present numerical
delegations in congress.
At the last session of congress somo
Republican leaders expressed opposl
Hon to any change in the house thai.
would be of profit to the south Howf
ver, the pew census does not indl
cue thai the south can be affect. -1
without corresponding effect on
states where the Republicans might
not be Inclined to reduce the delega-
By fixing the apportionment basis
so that Maine and Missouri would
each lo-i seit. the lucre. ised popll-
latlon of the country as represented
in congress ran be absorbed bv a net
increase of iwenty-seven seals. The
ipportlonraeni basis would then be
219,838 or major fraction thereof and
seventeen would absorb the net
also tb. two seats lost by
Maine ..ml Missouri. These gains
would be distributed with California
get! tig tour. Michigan, Ohio and New
York three; Pennsylvania. New ler
and T.xas two. ami Arkansas
Connecticut, Georgia. Illinois. Massa-J
ehusetts. New Mexico. North Caro
lina, Oklahoma, Washington and Wis
one each.
It liiav be decided to hold the net
increase lo less than a score which f
might be accomplished by causing
Missouri to Ins.- two seats and Iowa.
Kentucky, Maine ami Indiana one
each. 'I'be apportionment basis would
be 234,947 inhabitants to the congrec
sional district with a net Increases pi
fourteen iu the size of the house
These seats and those lost by Missouri
Iowa, Kentucky, Maine and Indiana
would be distributed us follows:
California. four; Michigan and
ohio, three Texas, two, and Connect!:
cut. Illinois, New jersey, New Mc
New York. Oklahoma. I'ennsylvania
and Washington one each.
Kegardless of tb apportionment
basis, tin swing in political power will
be first toward the Pacific coast and
the Rocky mountain slates, followed
by the south, the east and the middle
west. California's big ynin in inhabit
i in the wt leu years accounts
for most of the swing toward- the
ft R. MEN LAID OFF AS
FREIGHT TRAFFIC FALLS i;
Cincinnati. Oct 7. More than
I 200 railroad men have been dismissed
from the service within the last two
weeks In Cincinnati because of a slump
In the movement of freight, according
to operating officials.
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