Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — SIZE OF HOUSE INCREASED. [ARTICLE]

SIZE OF HOUSE INCREASED.

Burleigh Amendment of Hopkins Bill Fixes Membership at 357. By a vote of 165 to 102 the National House Tuesday afternoon adopted the Burleigh reapportionment bill as a substitute for the Hopkins measure. The Burleigh bill fixes the membership of the House at 387 and does not reduce the representation of any State, but increases the representation of twenty-one States and provides for thirty more members than are now authorized. The Hopkins measure provided for a House of 357, the size of the House as now constituted, and deprived eight States of one member each and increased that of seven States. The States that would lose under the Hopkins bill were: Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, Maine, I Virginia. Texas would gain two members, while Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and W<?st Virginia would gain one member each. Under the Burleigh reapportionment bill adopted by the House no State will lose a member, and those that will gain and the number are: Arkansas 1 Missouri 1 California li New Jersey 2 Colorado New York 3 Connecticut li North Carolina 1 Horida 1 North Dakota 1 11 1 toots ... ........ 3- l*e a usy tva n 1 a .. ~ lowa 1J Texas 3 Louisiana ........ 1 Washington 1 Massachusetts* .. . I'West Virginia 1 Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 1 Mississippi 1[ As the measure was agreed to, Illinois will have twenty-five members, and together with New York and Texas will gain three members each, and Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will gain two members each, while fifteen other States will gain one member apiece. If the reapportionment is adopted by the Senate in th*- shape in which it went through the House, the representation of the States will be: Alabama 9 Nebraska <; Arkansas 7 Nevada 1 California 8 New Hampshire .. 2 Colorado 3 New Jersey 10 Connecticut srNew York 37 Delaware ........ liNcrth Carolina ...10 Florida 3' North Dakota 2 Georgia 11 Ohio , 21 Idaho ............ 1, Oregon ...2 Illinois 25; Pennsylvania 32 Indiana 13 Khode Island 2 lowa 12; South Carolina .... 7 Kansas 8; South Dakota 2 Kentucky 11 Tennessee 10 1.0u1.-iana 7: Texas Iti Maine .. 4 I tab 1 Maryland 61 Vermont 2 Massachusetts ...14 Virginia 10 Michigan 12: Washington ..3 Minnesota t)j West Virginia .... 5 Mississippi 8 Wisconsin 11 Missouri 1C Wyoming ... 1 Montana 1