Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — Senate May Not Act On The Crumpacker Reapportionment Bill. [ARTICLE]

Senate May Not Act On The Crumpacker Reapportionment Bill.

The bill introduced into the national house by Congressman Crumpacker, providing for 433 congressmen, and which passed after a fight that required much skill on the part of Representative Crumpacker, may be throttled in the senate. Owing to the small amount of time left many measures are apt to go over and the Crumpacker bill may be one of them. The bill is now hung up in the senate committee on census of which Senator Lafollette is the chairman. There seems to be some Indication that the senate prefers to let the bill die, owing to the fact that democratic success last fall would give democratic legislatures in several states the power to redlstrlbt the states, which they would undoubtedly do to democraUc advantage.