Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 11

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, JUNE . 1929—PART 1. 11 REAPPORTION PLAN DEBATED ON RADID Vandenberg Urges Bill as Rankin Raps Tactics of Advocates. ___ (Continued From First Page.) government. The word describes the process through which each State gets its constitutional share of Representa- tives in Congress and of presidential electors. Such a process is the well- spring from which flows the control of our constitutional democracy. Nothing could be more fundamentally impor- tant. Therefore, honest reapportion- ment, pursuant 'to the Constitution’s mandate and formula, concerns every prudent citizen who thinks straight | enough to realize that the Constitution’s | preservation is prerequisite to the Re- public’s perpetuation. Charges Political Selfishness. Prom 1790 to 1910 there was a census every 10 yvears and a reapportionment | based upon the resultant enumeration of the American people, as ordered by the first article in the Constitution. It was the clearly expressed purpose of the framers of the Constitution that the House of Representatives thus should accurately reflect the changing trends of our population. Those who Tow expediently quibble about the in- tentions of the fathers are answered convincingly by the unbroken record of 120 years—from Washington to Taft— during which no Congress ever permit- ted more than two years to intervene between each decennial census and its sequent reapportionment. For more than a century this basic function was scrupulously protected. There Were no detours from the great, main highway of constitutional good faith Then commenced an amazing inter- lude of entrenched political selfishness and of flagrant and contemptuous nulli- fication, There has been no reapportion- ment since 1911. The census of 1920 never has been reflected in a re-assign- ment of Representatives in Congress, and, correspondingly, of presidential eleciors. The House twice initiated the necessary legislation—once in 1921, and again in the Winter of 1928. But the Senate stolidly declined to face its constitutional obligation. It strangled the first House bill in a committee pigeonhole. It killed the second in the windstorm of a perverse Senate fili- buster. As a result, four Congresses and two Presidents since 1920 have been chosen on a distorted and anti- constitutional basis. According to 1930 census estimates, this decade of trespass and default now produces 23 misplaced seats in the House of Representatives, 23 misplaced votes in the presidential electoral college, and 32,000,000 default- ed persons who are robbed of the spokesmanship which the Constitution promised and intends. This element of progressive fraud taints the entire legislative and administrative structure. Sees U. S. Tranquility Threatened. Surely it cannot be gainsaid—in the face of such alarming exhibits—that Teapportionment is of paramount con- cern, not only to the integrity of the Constitution, but also to a just sepse of elementary American fairplay and good sportsmanship. Nay more: The Pperpetuation of such outrage might, in its "lengthened shadow, threaten the | tranquillity of the Nation. It is not to be wholly forgotten in this connection that the Republic was born in the tra- vall of a war which responded to the significant shibboleth that “taxation without representation is tyranny.” It always was tyranny. s will be tyranny. It is tyranny today. Yet that precise tyranny has been recklessly in- flicted upon great American constitu- encies ever since 1920. | The magnified imposition may be | personified by a single comparison. | There are today approximately as many | people in one Michigan congressional | district, having one Congressman, as there are in the whole State of Missis- sippl, with eight Congressmen. Cali- fornia likewise has one corgressional district equally as large. Such contem- plations outrage every tenet of consti- tulonal justice. It must seem almost unbelievable to the casual observer that Congress should have declined to rectify such glaring discrepancies. Yet Con- gress has thus refused for eight sterile, contemptuous years, and large elements in Congress are continuing this. very | month to embrace every possible re- | course which once more may checkmate | reapportionment in 1930. Ah, they do not meet the issue thus squarely. They profess great sympathy with these disfranchised constituencies and they join the lamentations over ugly nullification since 1920. But the only reapportionment law which they SPEAKERS of Michigan. Left to right: Representative Rankin of Mississippi ON REAPPORTIONMENT nd Senator Vandenberg —star Staff Photos apportionment, and the Consucutlon‘ requires their inclusion when it calls for a count of “the whole number of persons” in each State. The greatest | constitutional lawyers in the Senate— such as Senator Borah on the Repub- lican side and Senator Walsh of Mon- | tana on the Democratic side—declare the inclusion of aliens to be mandatory. | Yet all such considerations have been swept aside by those who. once more, | would defeat ihis latest effort to forcc | a just recognition of representative | rights. No expedient has been ignored | in the long-time effort to hamper and harass this undertaking. In spite of bitter opposition, this| bill passed the Senate on May 20. I pause to pay my tribute of particular | respect to 14 ‘Senators from States | which may lose Representatives under | the terms of this bill, and on the basis | of the 1930 census, yet who, in ll\el‘ face of a constitutional duty, courage- | ously recorded themselves in favor of this’ insurance policy upon the Consti- tution’s life. I refer to Senators Hale | and Gould of Maine, Walsh and Gillett | of Massachusetts, Copeland and_Wag- ner of New York, Watson and Robin- son of Indiana, Capper and Allen of Kansas, Reed of Pennsylvania, Sackett of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska and Patterson of Missourl In all, 17 States seem destined to lose one or more Representatives in 1930, and 11 Staies seem destined to gain, It is unfortunate that there must be losses. But until population is static, apportionment cannot be static— | unless the Constitution succumb to paralysis. The real question is not the petty transfer of a few seats in Con- gress. The real question is whether | Congress _itself shall preserve consti- tutional integrity. The House passed this bill, in. some- what amended form, on June 5. The legislation now hangs in con- ference between the two chambers.| The prospect is for final action in both chambers during the week to come. If this bill finally joins the statutes, the fateful jeopardy involved in the per- sistent failure of all reapportionment for eight past years will permanently end. The Constitution once more wiil mean what it says. Our representative democracy will rest more firmly upon sound foundations Mr. Rankin's Speech. Representative Rankin’s address was a vigorous defense of those who op- posed the apportionment bill. He spoke as follows: Ladies and gentlemen of the radio | audience—So much misinformation has been disseminated throughout the coun- try relative to the so-called reappor- tionment bill, which was recently rail- roaded through the House and is now in conference, that I have come to try to | correct some of the erroneous impres sions which this propaganda has made, | and to refute some of the charges that | have been leveled at those members of | jhe House of Representatives who have en trying to preserve one of the most sacred principles of our American insti- | tions—that of maintaining an inde- pendent legislature, unhampered by ex- ecutive control. Want Accurate Census. The advocates of the census reap- portionment bill recently passed by the House and the Senate have charged that those of us who opposed it were nulli- fying. the Constitution of the United States. That charge is not true. We are in favor of reapportionment, but we | first want an accurate census to base | it on. The' proponents of this measure con- tend that it is mandatory under the Constitution that we reapportion after every census, I do not agree with them. ever seem to favor is some law which is not pending before Congress. The | pending proposal is always wrong. They | eep the word of promise to the ear | and break it to the hope. | Last December—if I may be pardoned | & personal word—I announced on the | floor of the Senate that since a census | has but one constitutional purpose— | namely, to provide a reapportionment | base—I should do my utmost to prevent | a 1930 census unless it could carry| within itself the guaranty of a corre sponding 1930 reapportionment. Thu: the 1930 census law was held back, and | thus census and reapportionment are linked together in the bill which now | approaches a climax in the present ex- tra session—a climax supported by the | logical and patriotic recommendation | of President Hoover that the issue is so| emergent as to demand this extra ses-| sion verdict. Constitution number At last article 1 of the first in import as well as gets its belated day in court. Would Cure Reapportionment Faults. | This pending bill aspires permanently to cure all reapportionment defaults in each decennium hereafter. It paral- lels and authenticates the Constitution for keeps. It provides that when the 1930 census, and each subsequent cen- sus, is completed, the President shall| Teport the result to Congress. He shall also report a table showing how the existing sized House (now 433 members) would be reapportioned by the method used at the last preceding apportion- | ment. If Congress thereupon fails to| pass its own reapportionment law, then | the table reported by the President be- comes automatically effective. Thus the country would be assured that the 1930 census will be validated in a constitu- tional apportionment. Thus, indeed, ac- tion would be guaranteed in every sub- sequent decade. Congressional inertia no longer could cheat this_fundamental| constitutional purpose. Such an ob- structive, destructive privilege does not rightfully belong to Congress. Congress | must be the servant-——not the master— of the Constitution. Otherwise we live in an elective despotism and constitu- tional democracy is dead. Otherwise the ax is laid to the root of the tree of representative government. Opposition to this bill has come chief- 1y from States which would lose Repre- sentatives if there were a reapportion- ment. Because I decline to question the motives of my able colleagues in the opposition, I prefer to look upon this as just a strange coincidence. Yet it might Teflect & perfectly understandable hu- man emotion. At any rate it would be easier to understand than have been some of the arguments and efforts mar- tialed in the hostile debate. It has been urged, for example, that ‘we propose an untoward delegation of power to the President. With entire Tespect for the good conscience of those who urge this view, yet I am bound to testify that we delegate nothing except & ministerial problem in arithmetic—a problem to which there can be but one answer. There is no actual delegation of Any “power" whatsoever— within a | tion paid. But if their contention is correct, they are the violators of the Constitution themselves. For the bill which they propose does not attempt to reapportion Congress under the census of 1920, as their alleged constitutional mandate | would require, but provides for a re- apportionment under the census of 1930 and delegates the power to make the reapportionment to the President of the United States. This concentration of power into the hands of the Chief Executive is one of the greatest steps toward the centraliza- tion of governmental powers into the hands of the President ever taken in this country, surrenders one of the sacred principles of legislative govern- ment for which our forebears have fought for 1,000 years. Those of us who do not belfeve that the Constitution re- quires that reapportionment be made after every census have declined to sup- port reapportionment based on the 1920 | census for the reason that it was inac- | curate and reapportionment under ft would have greatly _discriminated | sgainst the agricultural States. Last Census Held Inaccurate. ‘That census was taken at a time when we were just emerging from the World War, when many of our boys were away 'in the service, and great | numbers of our farming people were concentrated into the large congested | centers and engaged in those industrial activities incident to the war. Besides, it was taken in the Winter time when & vast number of our farming people | were not to be found at home, when the | roads were bad, when it was_pouring down rain throughout the Southern States and when many of the Northern and Western States were wrapped in a shroud of snow It was also taken at the peak of high prices, when it was found impossible to secure men to go out and count the country people for the small compensa- As a result a great number of the ag- | ricultural States of the South and West, | such as Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, | Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi and Missourt, | would have had part of their repre sentation taken away from them and transfered to the large congested cen- ters of the East with large alien popu- lations if reapportionment had been made under that census. When this bill finally came before the House last week and an attempt was made to eliminate aliens from the count or even to take a census of the aliens who are in the United States unlaw- fully, it met with the most strenuous resistance on the part of Represent tives from those localities where these aliens are largely to be found. The Tinkham amendment to cut down Southern representation under the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments was merely a vindictive thrust at and would have had no practical effect even if left in the bill. It was adopted by a combination of Eastern Republi- cans and Tammany Democrats. rational meaning of that word. Pays Tribule o Senators. Again, it has been urged that we should not count aliens. Yet alien Move Is Called Petty. It must have been humilitating to President Hoover, and it ought to have been “humuitating to him, after the the South for its stand on immigration, | leaders of his party taking this insult- ing jibe at the South, alded and abet- ted by the Representatives of Tammany whose candidate last year received only ppreciable majorities given him in the Southern States. Southern Representatives and South- | ern Senators took their political lives in their hands to support the off-spring of Tammany in 1928, and in doing so | many of our best men in both the House and the Senate went down to their political graves in the greatest landslide this country has seen for more than 100 vears. The peitiness of this fling at the South renders it the more inexcusable. Gongress has no right to interfere with the representation of the Southern States on account of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The Supreme Court of the United States in the civil rights case in 1883 at page 3 (109 U. S.) says: “Until some State law has been passed, or some State action through its officers or agents has been taken, ad- verse to the rights of citizens sought to be protected by the fourteenth amend- ment, no legislation of the United States under said amendment, nor any proceeding under such legislation can be called into activity, for the prohi- bitions of the amendment are against State laws and acts done under State authority.” State Action Required. In other words, until the State passes a law violating the fourteenth amend- ment its penaities cannot be invoked Senator Borah of Idaho said in a speech in the Senate a year or two ago that he had recently examined the laws and constitutions of all the Southern States and had failed to find where a single one of them violated either the fourteenth amendment or the fifteenth amendment. But even if it should violate the fourteenth amendment Congress would not be called upon to act, for the Su- preme Court would hold it null and vold under the fifteenth amendment, which provides that no such law shali be passed. The Hon. James G. Blaine, the Re- publican leader for years and who was Speaker of the House of Representatives at the time the fifteenth amendment opted, “Twenty Years in Con- gress,” sa “Its prime object was to correct the wrongs which might be enacted in the South, and the correction proposed was direct’ and unmistakable, viz. that the Nation would exclude the Negro from the basis of apportionment wherever the State should exclude him from the | right of suffrage. When, therefore, the Nation by sub- sequent change in its Constitution de- clared that the State shall not exclude | the Negro from the right of suffrage, it neutralized and surrendered the con- tingent right before held, to exclude him from the basis of apportionment. | Congress is thus plainly deprived by the | fifteenth amendment of certain powers | over the provisions of the fourteenth | amendment. Before the adoption of the fifteenth amendment if a State should exclude the Negro from suffrage the next step would be for Congress to | exclude the Negro from the basis of apportionment. ~ After the adoption of the fifteenth amendment if a State should exclude the Negro from suffrage the next step would be for the Supreme Court to declare that the act was un- constitutional and therefore null and void.” Thus it will be plainly seen that Con- gress has no right to interfere with the representation of the Southern States| on account of alleged violatons of the | fourteenth amendment to the Constitu- tion. Vindictiveness Seen in Thrust. ‘This thrust was simply made to gratify the vindictiveness of certain politicians toward the South because forsooth her Representatives joined with those from other sections of the country in an attempt to save America for Americans. The fight began over an amendment providing for taking the census of the aliens who are in the United States un- lawfully. The main controversy arose over the motion to exclude allens from the country in the reapportionment of representation in the House. It was contended by those opposing the motion that the word “persons” in the Consti- tution included aliens and that Con- gress was powerless to exclude them from the count in making the re portionment. But our contention was that since it is a Constitution adopted by and for the people of the United States the word “persons” referred to American persons and that Congress had the power to exclude allens from the count in making its reapportion- ment There are more than 5,600,000 aliens in the United States who have never taken out their first papers Under the present apportionment, they are allotted about 20 or 25 Congressmen, which under & new apportionment would have to be taken away from the agricultural States with their old line American stocks. Surely the framers of the Co stitution did not contemplate such a situation or intend that the Constitu- tion should be so construed. Aliens Given Representation. It is estimated that there are more than 3,000,000 aliens in this country now unlawfully. They also are counted and given between 12 and 15 Repre- sentatives in the American Congress, which are in turn taken away from the agricultural States of the South and Middle West and rural New England. Could the framers of the Constitution, by the wildest stretch of imagination, have contemplated that Representatives | | would be taken away from States com posed exclusively, or almost exclusively, of American citizens and given to these alien_interlopers who are in our coun try without our consent, against our will | and subject to be deperted at any time they are caught? They come from the riffraff of the Old World. From them are recruited the gunmen and the gangsters. They not only come in violation of our laws, but bring with them a contempt for American institutions. Yet the alien influence is s0 strong in this Capitol that we are not only prevented from | excluding them from the count in ap- portioning Representatives, but we are not able fo secure the pasiag: of a law forcing them to register, in order that we may deport them or drive thom out of the country. Listen to this. It was stated at Ge- neva the other day that between 60,000 and 75,000 undesirable aliens are boot- legged into the United States annually as seamen, that many come in from the | he had placed ‘so as to send the bullet | STUDENTS EATH 5 HELD SUIDE Police Declare Son of Judge| Shot Himself—Friend Tells | of “Farewell.” By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, June 8 —Haverford | ‘Township police, who have investigated | the death yesterday of Bramwell Linn, son of Judge Willlam B. Linn of the, Pennsylvania Superior Court, said to- | day that the young man had Killed | himself. Young Linn, who was 21 and was to | have been graduated from Haverford College today, was found dead in his room at the institution with a bullet | wound in the head. Nearby stood a| 22-caliber rifle, which, the police said. | into the back of his head. Class Pays Tribute. hen the name of Bramwell Linn was reached in the list of graduates| read at today's commencement at| Haverford, the class stood up and re- mained silent for a minute. Later his name was called as the winner of al S:S prize for improvement in scholar- | ship. 1 Although police authorities say young Linn committed suicide, his father does | not subscribe to it. He feels that a| thorough investization should be mad to determine the facts beyond a doubt Police authorities said Linn's death | followed a “farewell” party at his home | late Thursday night, in ‘which a few| close college friends participated. There were some drinks, it was said, and the young man told his friends ‘“this is my farewell dinner to you; call it my 1ast supper, if you will.” Friend Tells of Party. Ralph M. Doughety, jr., of Beacon, N. Y., was one of the party. The Linn family apparently had retired for the night, Doughty sald, when he and Linn and others went to the Linn home and held the “party” in the kitchen. According to Doughty, Linn said: “Tomorrow you shall know all about| it. I am going out of the world as I came into it, unknown.” The boys began to ask him questions s to what | he meant, but he did not enlighten them. GRAVELLY POINT SITE | UPHELD FOR AIRPORT | Williams of Board of Trade De- clares No Other Available, Speak- ing at Air School Opening. Selection of the Gravelly Point site for the proposed municipal arport for the National Capital is necessary, if the field is to be paid for out of District funds, H. L. Williams, chairman of the aeronautics committee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, declared at the opening meeting of the Aviation School of America, at 1108 Sixteenth street, Friday night. It is necessary, he said, to have a landing field as near as possible to the center of the city, in order that time saved in airplane transportation may | not be lost in going to and from the | fleld. He pointed out that since the proposed field must be financed, at | least in part, by the District of Colum bia, it would not be feasible to locate | it ‘outside the jurisdiction of the s, he said, | Gravelly Point Lieut. Walter Hinton, pilot of the NC-4, first plane to cross the Atlantic, spoke of the opportuities in the avia- tion field. One of the greatest fields of development opened recently, he sald, is that of adapting the Diesel fuel-oil engine to aviation uses. Detailed description of the principles | of the new autogyro or “windmill” plane was given by Ralph S. Westing, ;r-mc manager of Pitéairn Aviation, nc. ‘Thorough training of pilots is essen- tial if aviation is to progress properly, it was stated by Capt. Ira C. Eaker, chief .pilot of the Question Mark on its 150-hour endurance flight last January. | Maj. Harry M. Horton, president r\(i the Congressional Airport, suggested the necessity for young flyers looking for commercial employment to prepare themselves in every branch of aero- nauties. Motion pictures were shown of the recent Army Air Corps maneuvers in ©Ohio and of the training methods used in developing Army pilots. BAR TRANSFER ATHLETES IN CENTRAL CONFERENCE Vote Discloses Attitude of Direc- tors for Conduct of Inter- collegiate Competition, By the Associated Press GRAND FORK, N. Dak., June 8.— Athletes who transfer from one school to another in the North Central Con- ference will not be eligible for inter- colleglate competition, according to a ruling approved by members and made public today. - Athletic directors of the loop approved the measure at a meeting in Sioux City, Iowa, May 31, but all faculty representatives were not present at the time. Dr. R. D. Cole of the Uni- versity of North Dakota, secretary of the organization, took a mail vote to deter- mine the attitude of absentees. The poll was completed today The rule will not be retroactive, Members of the North Central Con- ference are the University of North Da- kota, North Dakota Aggles, South Da- kota State, South Dakota University and | Morningside University of Sioux City, Towa, left no choice but —_— American vessels even bootlegging into this country a class of undesirables that | will be a burden upon this country, which burden will be passed on down to your children and your children’s children for generations yet to come. Yet this administration not only re- fuses to exclude those undesirable, un- welcome aliens from the count, but pro- poses to give them representation In Congress by taking it away from the old settled agricultural States with the | largest percentages of old-line Amer- | ican inhabitants. | “Battle Is Not Over.” But the battle is not over. This ques- | tion is now an issue and will be until | it is settled in practically every con- gressional district in the United States ‘The American people are determined to know who is going to run this country. This is & movement to save America for Americans. It was contended on the | floor of the House that the Supreme Court would hold this amendment un- constitutional, which, to me, seemed absurd. I realize that the Supreme Court of the United States has gone a long way at times in construing various portions of the Constitution, but it will never g0 50 far as to say that it is our duty to give aliens representation in the American Congress or to give repre- sentation in that august body. or in the electoral college, to men who have come to our shores in violation of law and who have no right to remain on American soll. rts of Bremen, Amsterdam and An- werp alone. 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