Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — The New Congressional Apportionment. [ARTICLE]

The New Congressional Apportionment.

ment. Following is the text of Mr. Cox’s bill, now pending in the House : An Act making an apportionment of repre-eiitatlon in Congress among the several States under the tenth census : lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, After the 3d of March, 1883, the House of Representatives shall bo composed of 301 members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows: Alabama 8 Mississippi 7 Arkansass Missouri.l3 California. 5 Nebraska..... 3 Colorado-... 1 Nevada 1 Connecticut 4 New Hampshire 2 Delaware.-. 1 NewJereey 7 Florida 1 New York3l Georgia. 9 North Carolina 8 Illinoisl9 Ohiol9 Indianal2 Oregon 1 lowalo Pennsylvania 26 Kansas 6 Rhode Island 2 Kentuckylo South Carolina 6 Louisiana 6 Tennessee 9 Maine 4 Texas 10 Maryland 6 Vermont 2 Massachusettslo Virginia v Michigan.lo West Virginia 4 Minnesota 51 Wisconsin 9 Bec. 2. Whenever a new State is admitted to the Union, the Representative or Representatives assigned to it shall be added to the number. Sec. 3. In each State entitled under this apportionment the number to which such State may be entitled in the Forty-eighth, and each subsequent, Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants and equal in number to the Representatives to which auch State may be entitled in Congress, no one district electing more than one Representative. The following table shows the gains and losses of the chief geographical divisions of the country under the proposed apportionment : 301 Members. Group of States. Gain. Loss. Nev; England 3 Middle 3 Northwestern 9 2 Pacific 1 Total Northernlo 8 Southern 8 2 Totals 18 10 New members 8 It will be seen that by Mr. Cox’s arrangement the North will get two of the eight new members and the South the other six. Curiously enough, if the House should be increased to 325 members, which is not probable, the North would get seventeen of the thirty-two new members, and the South only fifteen.