Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — FOR PNEUMONIA [ARTICLE]

FOR PNEUMONIA

The Valparaiso papers boasted too soon that Congressman, Crumpacker hsd killed the Hopkins apportionment bill. The majority ot the census special committee voted in favor of the bill, and will report it to the House; The bill keeps the membership of the House at the present figure, 357, and if passed will firmly establish the principle that the membership of the House is to be kept aftg|. We hope the bill will pass just as Mr. Hopkins presented it; the howl the Indianapolis papers are. making against it, notwithstanding. There objections to it are basest on the fact that by it, Indiana Jpill lose one Congressman and Couisiana gain one. As the Journal says, “it takes one of Indiana’s congressmen and gives him to Louisiana?’ Which one of our Hoosier Congressmen is to be thus forcibly and bodily abducted and cast as a tribute to the savage Crecle cannibals, the Journal does not ikaeoifiy; but we. tremble for Crumpacker’s fate (or fat) if it should happen to be him. But there| is nothing in this Louisiana argument. Congress ional representation is based on population, an| always has been and ' not on foe tendency of people to stay away from the polls voluntarily as the great majority do in Louisiana, because they know how |pe flections will go anyhow. Nfither has it ever been based on t)ps action of states in restricting suffrage by law. The constitution says this last may be done/ but there seems to be no practicable method of applying this provision to the present southern situation, and so far as heaM from there is no one at all, except Mr. Crumpacker himself, supporting his bill, reducing the reprlentation of several southern stateZ on account of their disfranclizement of the colored voters?

Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., says: “I have used Foleys Honey and Tar in three very severe cases.” There is nothing so good.