Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — THE APPORTIONMENT BILLS. [ARTICLE]

THE APPORTIONMENT BILLS.

[lndianapolis SentineL] No matter pending before the legislature has been so generally misrepresented as the proposed apportionments for congressmen, senators and representatives. On Thursday morning last the Journal printed a labored editorial on a purely imaginary congressional apportionment. It Btated that such a bill had passed the lower bouse and was known as the Curtis apportionment. As a matter of fact, no congressional apportionment bill has even been considered by the house. The whole article mast have been Dure speculation on the part of the Journal or a deliberate effort to mislead its readers. The outrageous republican gerrymander of 1873 cannot be obliterated by such misrepresentation. The fact is that the apportionment bill as passed by the senate makes only one change in the present apportionment. That change takes Shelby county oat *of the Seventh and puts it into the Fifth distriot. This change was made on acoonnt of the increase in population in this district. The News of Friday published a map which purported to exhibit the representative and senatorial districts as made by the house bill. It made senatorial districts of Morgan and Hendrtcks and of Brown, Johnson and Shelby. It also made a representative district of Fayette and Henry. All of these districts are wrong. The house bill on representative and senatorial apportionment as passed is a very fair one, being based as nearly as possible on vote and population. It oannot be said that it makes small distriotß for the democratic party and large ones for the opposition. Of seven small senatorial districts, four are given to the republicans. They are as follows: Tippecanoe; Lagrange and Steuben; Betnon, Newton and Jaaper;Parke and Vermillion. Two representatives are likewise given to Tippecanoe eonnty, which is mnoh below the required population. There is no district to which two senators are given, as was heretofore done in the case of Cl-n----ton, Boone and Montgomery. In fact the whole bill was framed in a spirit of fairness, as a careful examination will show. Opposition papers will seek to deceive the people, but when the truth is known the apportionment will be satisfactory to them. Strange things are going on among the formers of the West. In Kensas they are organizing societies to prevent the foreolosnre of mortgages and the leasing of farms sold nnder foreclosure. In Miane iota they refuse to pa their assessments to a live stock insurance company and threaten to lynoh the man who sues them. A St Paul dispatch says: “The Minnesota Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, of Fergus Falls, has sued a number of farmers in Norman county for the assessments due, which the farmers had refused to pay. The suit eame off yesterday, and the farmers were at Ada in a crowd to fight their case. John Ericksoi, of Fergus Falls, secretary of the insurance com-, pany, waa the man that worked up the insurance in the county. When the farmers found that he was that# to fight them they were infuriated and decided to scare him into a relinquishment of his olaim against them. They prooured a rope and w nt to Mr. Eriokson’s room at the hotel. The leader told him what they came for, and after some parleying and flourishing the rope, Mr. Erickson threw up his suit and gave the farmers a release of the company’s claims against them."

Lace Curtains 60 ets. per pair to $4.50 per pair—an endless variety. Chicago Bargain Stobe. Senator Hiseook, (rep.) of New York, ■ays that he and Senator Everts are re* sponsible for the appointment of supervisor and enumerators of the oensus in New York. This makes the testimony of Inspector Byrnes before the Assembly oommittee recently very interesting. The Inspector testified: “It came to my knowledge, when I was taking the census, that a professional thief had been employed y the Government. I sent for the man, and he told me that it was true and that his district was in the Third Ward, near the Washington Market. He claimed to have gathered about 400 names at two cents each. I learned that he was reoommended by Lawyer Morrison and Justioe Taintor, of the Third Assembly Distriot. Supervisor Charles H. Murray is distriot leader.— This man told me that he teonred a position for another professional thief as an enumerator bnt he did not think there was money enough in the job and helquit. The piotures of both of these men are in the rogues’ gallery at police head, quarters.”

Embroideries 1 cent per yard up. Chicago Bargain Stobi. A reduction in wages is to be made at Fisher's Pipe Foundry, In Allentown, P»« Inside men will be out 10 cents and out*, side men five cents per day. The Potts* town Iron Company last Tuesday posted notices that beginning on Maroh 9 the wages of puddlers will be reduced from $3.75 to $3.50 per ton of 2,240 pounds. This will reduce the wages of the helpers to 37 cents a heat, and other employes in proportion, Deeds to property in Ferguson Valley, dating back 168 years, and signed by King George the 111, are on exhibition in one of Eoper’s, the jeweler, windows. They are a genuine attraction, and should be seen and read by as many of our readers as can possibly do so.— .Le Wigtown (Pa.) Free Press. Trout, see to it that those deeds are assigned) a proper [place in the coming Columbia Exposition. The party in power enacted all the laws which ha e oused the general uprising among the i armers of the entire country, demanding relief. Can the farmers ex* pect to get their rights from the party that has oaused them to rise in revolt and demand a change Can they look for a betterment of their condition from the men or party that has repeatedly ignored their rights? Can they expect lower tariff taxation from aparty whose principlesure in the direction of the classes and directly antagonistic to the masses? These are things the fanner should oonsider. They must have relief from the burdens which they *re groaning under or else farming must cease as § paying industry.