Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — THE ENLARGED CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

THE ENLARGED CONGRESS.

It Will Have 386 Members, and the Electoral Collette 47<i. Probably the people of the country do, not yet fully realize that the House of Representatives which they will elect next year will be allotted on a new ratio, and will be much larger than any House ever chosen before. lu the House of Representatives which was elected last November, and which will meet next December. t) • are 357 members. In the House whi .1 Wjll be elected in 1902 there will be 389 members. The ratio- for representation in the House established just after the taking of the census of 1890, was one member for every 173,901 inhabitants. The ratio established under the census of 1900, which will go into operation in the election in November, 1902, is 194,182. The next House will be 29 members larger than the present one. Of course, the electoral college will be enlarged to the same extent. The electoral vote In the canvass of 1900 was 447. The vote in the election of 1904 will be 470 through the recent addition to the membership in the House, and there is a chance that it may be still*further enlarged, because the admission of Oklahoma and perhaps one or two of the other territories to statehood No State lost any members through the recent readjustment of representation in the House and in the electoral college. Arkansas. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, I.ouisiana. Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia anil Wisconsin will each have to choose -one member more next year than they chose last year. Minnesota, New’ Jersey and Pennsylvania will each gam two members. Illinois, New York and Texas will each gain three members.