Each recurring decade will bring. if not accessions of territory. continued increases of population. until every available foot of land on the plain of the Atlantic will grow fruitful under the plowmans touch. and the homes of teeming millions take up all tme western acreage that now lies unbroken between the great lakes of thenorth and our southern seas. There is no limit to this sure multiplication of numbers save the exhaustion of the capabilities of our soil for sustaining additional inhabitants. and these capabilities are practically inexhaastible. Why. sir. it is estimated by those familiar with her resources that the State of Texas alone. upon whose fertile prairies the world is pouring restless streams of immigration. with her 274.356 sqn are miles of territory. is capable of sstaining a population equal to that of France. Follow np the principle of decennial increases in the moanbership of the House. and we will ultimately reach a point where the House will be as largo and unwieldy as were assemblies of the people in the ancient republics. Three hundred and seven. or something near that number. will make the House large enough for all the ends of true representation. and certainly as large as is consistent with the proper dispatch of business.
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