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Sirs: Your comment on Congress with reference to passage through the House of Representatives of the census-apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed and ably edited columns. Whatever else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment...
First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
...someone to fire on Fort Sumter. Cooler Republican heads, notably Speaker Longworth's and Leader Tilson's, moved and carried an adjournment, then sought and found a way to repair the damage injudiciously done. When Congress reassembled, Floor Leader Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote of 271 to 104. The sound and fury ultimately signified nothing, except the sectional antagonisms that lie so close below...
...Hoch soil er leben, Hock soil er leben, Hoch soil er leben. Dreimal Hoch...
Connecticut's Fenn is a patient, high-minded 72-year-oldster. Homer Hoch of Kansas is an electric, driving "youngster" of 49. It is not likely that Mr. Fenn will catch the Homer nodding but neither is it likely that the Hoch logic will persuade the big-state delegations to vote down Mr. Fenn's long-laid plan...