Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1911 — APPORTIONMENT BILL NOW BEING PLANNED. [ARTICLE]

APPORTIONMENT BILL NOW BEING PLANNED.

Senate Committee on Congressional Apportionment Will- Recommend Measure to Redlstriet State.

Members of the senate committee on congressional apportionment, and Romus F. Stewart, who as a statistical clerk to the committee, has done the detail work, believe that the plan of apportionment which will be recommended by the committee Is one that can not be attacked on the ground of unfairness. Districts, they say, are as nearly equal in population as they could be drawn. The number of inhabitants under the division into twelve districts, if that is to be all that Indiana will be entitled to, will be as follows: First, 229,437; second, 226,279; third, 238,801; fourth, 231,161; fifth, 212,279; sixth, 225,752; seventh (estimated), 230,000; eighth, 231,161; ninth, 226,752; tenth, 208,744; eleventh, 230,738; twelfth, 216,699. The average population to the district, if twelve districts are made, should be 225,073. The tenth district under this reapportionment would have the smallest number of inhabitants, and the third district the largest. Under a plan which provides for thirteen districts, in the event congress does not reduce Indiana’s representation, the following apportionment is proposed: First district—Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Dubois, Pike and Gibson.

Second—Knox, Sullivan, Daviess, Martin, Greeny, Owen, Monroe, Brown and Morgan. Third—Perry, Crawford, Harrison Floyd, Clark, Scott, Washington, Orange and Lawrence. Fourth—Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland, Dearborn, Ripley, Jennings, Bar tholomew, Jackson and Decatur. Fifth—Vermillion, Vigo, Parke, Putnam, Clay and Hendricks. Sixth —Marion (except Center and Perry townships), Hancock, Shelby, Henry, Rush, Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin. Seventh —Center and Perry townships, Marion county. Eighth—Marison, Delaware, Blackford, Jay and Randolph. Ninth—Hamilton, Tipton, Howard, Carroll, Clinton, Boone, Montgomery and Fountain. Tenth—Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper, Benton, White, Tippecanoe and Warren. Eleventh—Pulaski, Cass, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Wells and Grant Twelfth—Adams, Allen, Whitley, Kosciosko, Noble, Dekalb, Lagrqnge and Steuben. Thirteenth—Laporte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, Starke and Fulton.