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14 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920 DOWN-STATERS SCORED BY CON CON DELEGATE Amos C. Miller, North Shore Member of Convention Hits at Allotment of Representatives Move Addressing the current events class of the First Congregational church of Evanston last Sunday, Hon. Amos C. Miller, formerly a resident of Kenilworth, a member of the Illi- nois constitutional convention, which recently adjourned to meet next fall, said that among all the important questions that came before the con- vention for its solution, the ques- tion of the allotment of represent- atives in the state legislature had been the most difficult one to deal with and had been a constant ob- stacle to harmonious action through- out the entire sessions of the conven- tion. Mr. Miller was introduced by Chief Justice Orrin N. Carter of the Illinois supreme court. In making the intro- duction Justice Carter said that in the constitutional convention there were a few creative minds and a large number of men with average ability. He said, "In my opinion Mr. Miller is among the few who are the creative minds of the convention." Tells of Combine Mr. Miller began his address by telling of the combination of the dele- gates from downstate to defeat the delegates from Cook county in the organization of the convention when it convened. He told that this had been unexpectedly learned by the Cook county delegation, but that they had taken a generous attitude toward the matter and had not caused trou- ble over it. "The convention met," he said, "a downstate man was chosen as presi- dent, and rules were framed which gave him full power to appoint all committees. And thus the conven- tion was organized. For a time all was going harmoniously so far as the Cook county delegates knew, but they did not know. When the question of apportionment was reached, it was discovered that the downstate dele- gates stood almost solidly for a well- matured plan of writing into the constitution a provision that the county of Cook should never elect more than one-third of the senators and should forever elect less than one-half of the members of the lower house. "Cook county has now only 200,000 short of half the population of the state Cook county is growing fast, and the balance of the state is grow- ing slowly. This difference between Cook county and the balance of the | state will doubtless be accentuated in the coming ten years. These facts point almost certainly to the conclu- sion that Cook county in less 'than ten years will be the larger part of the state of Illinois in population, in taxable property and in every other attribute that contributes to the mak- ing of a state." Would Not Compromise He said that the Cook county dele- gates were willing to make the con- cession for the limitation of the rep- resentation from Cook county in one of the houses of the state legis- lature, but that this compromise was not acceptable to the downstate dele- gates. He said that the downstate delgates were to be satisfied not by being protected from Cook county, but only by putting Cook county in a position where it could not be pro- tected from the balance of the state. So a provision was voted through in the first part of July, limiting Cook county for all time to a representa- tion of one-third in the senate and to less than a half in the house." Mr. Miller told of the trouble that was foreshadowed by such system of representation and of the rescinding of this action by the downstate dele- gates. He said that it was hoped that the period through which the convention was adjourned before meeting again this fall would give an opportunity for making a satisfactory compromise on the question, but that instead the result was the sys- tem which would provide for county represntation in the lower house and We Sell Them FRANKLIN CARS Start Easily--Never Freeze Always Ready to Go Gage Motor Sales Co. EVANSTON JE zed plan to build or repair this fall-- first see EDWARD HINES LUMBER CO. Church St. and Maple Ave. Evanston : Wilmette 132 mm ---- \ Evanston 42 which would increase the senate by six members. He explained the un- fairness of this plan in detail, and said that it was fundamentally op- posed to the American principle of the rule of the majority. Would Kill Primary Lawe "Thsi plan," he said, "was voted through the convention ten days ago. And on the heels of that came an- other proposal which would have astounded the Cook county delega- tion a few months before, but was no longer surprising. This was a propo- sal guaranteeing to every political party the right to govern its own af- fairs untrammeled by act of the le- gislature. The purpose was to wipe out the primary law and forbid all future primary laws and, in fact, all legislative control over party man- agement and nominations." He told of the failure of this plan and the temporary abandonment of plan of the new income tax. Then he told of the attempt to limit the sev- enth judicial district to one member on the supreme bench. "What will the outcome be?" he said. "This last week, following a heated session on this supreme court provision, the great majority of the Cook county delegates left the con- vention in disgust. The convention then adjourned until September. 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