Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — The New Apportionment. [ARTICLE]

The New Apportionment.

The Apportionment bill, which is now a law,* gives the next House of Representatives 825 members, against 293 in the present one. Take four decades, and the representation of the different sections of the Union have been, and will be, as follows: States. 80. 1880. 1870. 1860. 186<K New England 6 26 28 27 29 Middle 3 69 87 60 C 3 Southern......: 16 121 106 85 90 Western 10 101 86 66 53 Pacific 8 8 6 5 8 Total 38 325 293 243 238 The table by States is as follows: States. 1880 1870 1860 1850 Alalama 8 8 6 7 Arkansas 5 4 3 2 California 6 4 3 2 Colorado 1 1 Connecticut 4 4 4 4 Delaware 1111 Florida 2 2 11 Georgia 10 9 7 8 Illinois 20 19 14 9 Indiana i 13 13 11 11 lowa 11 9 6 2 Kansas 7 3 1 .... Kentucky 11 10 9 10 Louisiana 6 6 5 4 Maine 4 5 5 6 Maryland 6 6 5 5 Massachusetts 12 11 10 11 Michigan 11 9 6 4 Minnesota 5 3 2 2 Missl-sippl 7 6 5 5 Missouri 14 13 9 7 Nebraska 3 11 .... Nevada.... 1 1 1 1 .... New Hampshire 2 3 3 8 New Jersey 7 7 5 6 New York 34 33 3i 83 North Carolina 9 8 7 8 Ohio 21 20 19 21 OregOD 1111 Pennsylvania 28 27 24 25 Rhode Island 2 2 2 2 South Carolina 7 5 4 ft Tennessee 10 10 8 10 Texas 11 6 4 2 Vermont 2 3 3 3 Virginia 1C 9 8 13 West Virginia 4 3 8 .... Wisconsin 9 6 6 3 Total 325 293 243 238 It will be seen that New York had S 3 members under the census of 1850, on a basis of only 238 total, and now gets but 34 on a total of 325. Ohio makes no gain. Pennsylvania gains 3, Indiana 2, Massachusetts 1, Georgia 2. Counting the two Virginias together the gain is 1. Kentucky gains 1, Alabama 1, North Carolina I,T ennessee nono. Tho great gains are made by the Western States. Thus Illinois advances from 9 members in 1850 to 21 iu 1880, more than doubling. lowa bounds from 2to 11; Wisconsin from 3to 9 ; Michigan from 4to J 1; Kansas from lin 1860 to 7in 1830 ; Minnesota from 2to 5 ; Nebraska from 1 in 1850 to 3 now. The only Southern State which makes a notable bound forward is Texas, and that is a big one—beiDg from 2 in 1850 to 11 in 1880. The table is worth studying and preserving.