Speech #710028795

Mississippi. and Missouri---would have had part of their representation taken away from them and transferred to the large congested centers of the East. with large alien populations. if reapportionment had been made under that census. When this bill finally came before the House last week and an attempt was made to eliminate aliens from the count. or even to take a census of the aliens who are in the United States unlawfully. it met with the most strenuous resistance on the part of Representatives from those localities where these aliens are largely to be found. The Tinkham amendment to cut down southern representation under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments was merely a vindictive thrust at the South for Its stand on immigration and would have had no practical effect even if left in the bill. It was adopted by a combination of eastern Republicans and Tammany Democrats. It must have been humiliating to President Hoover. and It ought to have been humiliating to him. after the treatment which le received last year south of the Potomac River. to see the leaders of his party taking this Insulting jibe at the South. aided and abetted by the representatives of Tammany. whose candidate last year received the only appreciable majorities given him In the Southern States.