Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1913, Page 8

X > > 3 LESS DELEGATES FROM THE SOUTH Teatative Plan for New G. « 0. P. Representation. TOTAL CUT OF SEVENTY Under Scheme Submitted to Commit- tee the Southern States Will Lose Sixty-two Seats in tion and Northern States Eight. Washington, Dec. 18.—Only two propositions remain to be acted upon by the Republican national commit- tee, which is considering reform meas- ures planned to reunite the party. The problems were to clear the par- ty convention machine of certain features and to reduce representations in national conveations from South- and congre al districts vegarded as overwhelming- National Conven- ic. ly Democr A special subcommittee headed by National Committeeman Warren of Michigan agreed npon a plan of reap- portionment providing for four dele- Zates at 'ge from each state, one| from each congressional district and one additional from each district where the total Republican vote was 35 per cent or more of the total vote cast. No district, however, would have more than two delegates, no matter how large the Republican vote. Btates having congressmen at large would be entitled to one vote for each. The congressional election of 1910 probably will be used as the basis for determining the exact representation in each state. The plan would become effective when ratiied by states rep- mesenting a majority of the electoral oollege. New Apportionment Plan. Under the Warren plan representa~ tion in national coaventions would be Teduced by seventy delegates. The following named states would lose the following number of dele- gates: Alabama 4, Florida 2, Georgia 6, Louisiana 7, M ippi 8, North Carolina 2, Oklahoma North Caro- lina 7, Tennessee 4, Texas 14, Vir- ginia 5, total I for the South, 62; Illinois 2, Kentucky 1, New Je: i Now York 4, total loss for the North 8. The subcommittee unanimously agreed on the per cent plan. The subcommittee presented a unanimous report for a modifi ©of the party’s rules, providing for the | recognition of state primary laws, the acceptance of the right of a state to <choose all or part of its delegates at large to national conventions and agreed that in future conventions dele- gates presenting certificates from proper state authorities should be placed on the temporary convention roll. This plan was adopted by the na- tional committee by a unanimous vote. RAILROADS WILL AGREE TO RATES Drop Objection to Minnesota & Distance Tarifi Law. ONE ROAD IS UNDECIDED Minneapofig and St. Louis Has Been Enjoined by Federal Courts From Putting Reduction Into Effect and Is Liable for Contempt. St. Paul, Dec. —DMinnesota rafl- roads, with the possible exception of the Minneapolis and St. Louis and some of the logging roads, will adopt the Cashman distance tariff Jan. 1 without further demur. This information has been obtained from authoritative sources and means that the Class A carriers have decid- ed that there is no way by which they can attack the rate schedules at b3 this time. The decision has been |} reached after two weeks of almost | continuous conferences. Carriers uez\rnimg less than $4,000 per mile are to be given a hearing in a few days. The Minneapolis and St. Louis, it is said, is still undecided as to the ac- tion it will take, a3 the supreme court decree enjoined it from putting in lower rates, the action having been instituted by stockholders. establish the new schedule it is said that the directors might be liable for <contempt for violating the injunction and as a result it is likely that the circuit court will be asked to pass on the matter. The state commission does not take seriously the reported complaint of lumber manufacturers. Commissioner Elmquist said that the new schedules only boost the rate from-Little Falls to St. Paul, 150 miles, about 30 cents on 1,000 feet, weighing 3,000 pounds, and not one-third. as charged. Read Ploneer want ads, Should it | § ADMIRAL WINSLOW. Said to Be S8lated for Com- mander-in-Chief of the Navy. Four superdreadnoughts of the At- lantic fleet, which has just ‘completed a trip through the Mediterranean wa- s, have reached New York. Five thousand sailors were paid off at that| port and will the holidays there | unless develoyp co make the presence of h in south- | ern waters adv With the ar- rival of the fleet co announce- ment that Adiral Winslow will haul down his pennant as second in com- mand and will wait orders from the navy department as to his future du- ties. It is understood that he is to be the next commander-in-chief of the fleet, and that he will be the officer who will direct its passage through the Panama canal when it is opened to the world’s commerce in 1915. GOVERNMENT SHOULD CONTROL ALL WIRES Burleson for Federal Ownership of Telegraph and Telephone. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—A.sweeping declaration in favor of the principle of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines and an assertion that the postal service now- is self- | supporting for the first time since 1883 are features of the annual re- port of Postmaster General Burleson. Mr. Burleson says the government has demonstrated its capacity to con- duct public utilities and from his]| present information he is. inclined clearly to the taking over by the post- office department of the telegraph and telephone lines. The postmaster gen- eral says: ! “A: study of -the constitutional pur- poses of the postal establishment leads to the conviction that the post- office department should have control | over all means of communication of intelligence. “The successful operation of the parcel post demonstrated the ca- pacity of the government to conduct the public utilities which fall properly within the postal provision of the con- stitution. “Every argument in favor of the government ownership of telegraph lines may be advanced with equal logic and force in favor of the gov- ernment ownership of telephone lines.” Many Hurt in Incendiary Fire. Pittsburg, Dec. 18.—S. F. Hill of Roslyn, Long Island, was seriously kurt and thirty-five other persons nar- rowly escaped death when an attempt was made to burn the bachelor hall apartments, a four-story building tenanted by men in Wilkinsburg, a guburb. ats; wniy” th Ply.. ¥ 1 Tinies, ANTED—Boy over 18 years senger In I ', M. mua pers. 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