Apportionment of Representatives, Hearings ..., on H.R. 130 ...,Feb. 14-21, 19281928 - 94 pages |
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Page 28 - States, by adding to the whole number of free persons in all the states, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons...
Page 69 - He entered elaborately into the defence of a proportional representation, stating, for his first position, that, as all authority was derived from the people, equal numbers of people ought to have an equal number of representatives, and different numbers of people, different numbers of representatives. This principle had been improperly violated in the Confederation, owing to the urgent circumstances of the time.
Page 28 - ... unit, if any such happen to remain, shall be the ratio, or rule of apportionment, of Representatives among the several states under such enumeration; and the said Secretary of the Department of the Interior shall then proceed, in the same manner, to ascertain the representative population of each state, and to divide the whole number of the representative population of each state by the ratio already determined by him as above directed; and the product of this last division shall be the number...
Page 32 - We have lost our ideal. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Friday, May 21, 1926.
Page 47 - Miller would be present to discuss the balance of the legislative program. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at 10 o'clock am, Wednesday, January 20, 1926.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON WoRLD WAR LEGISLATION, Wednesday, January W, 19%6.
Page 90 - We will have to close the hearing now. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman.) COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC, Thursday, October 23, 1919.
Page 24 - Representatives among the several States, so that the ratios of population to Representatives, and also the ratios of Representatives to population, shall be as equal as may be among the several States (S.
Page 28 - States, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons; which aggregate population...
Page 81 - ... method of major fractions. The method of equal proportions, it is interesting to note, gives results that are intermediate between those given by these two ways of measuring "nearness" by absolute differences. It is somewhat more favorable to the small states than is the method of major fractions and somewhat more favorable to the large states than that method would be if it made use of the other form of fractions. On purely mathematical grounds there is no reason to prefer one of these two forms...
Page 28 - That so soon as the next and each subsequent enumeration of the inhabitants of the several States directed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken, shall be completed and returned to the office of the Department of the Interior, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the aggregate representative population of the United States, by adding to the whole number of free persons in all the States, including those bound to service for a...