Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — New Legislative Apportionment Bill Proposed. [ARTICLE]

New Legislative Apportionment Bill Proposed.

Indianapolis, Feb. 18. —Representative Benz introduced in the house Wednesday a legislative reapportionment bill providing for radical changes, especially in senatorial districts, but which, according to declarations by leaders on both sides of the capitol, will not become the democratic party measure. Senator McCormick was surprised later in the day to learn that a reapportionment measure had been presented in the house, saying that he believed it was generally understood “bat all redistricting was to depend on the report of his committee aud that the senate and house democrats would confer on the report and make it a caucus measure. Representative Benz, as chairman of the house committee on reapportionment, asked the bureau of legislative information to work out a scheme of reapportionment based bn the enumeration of last year, and it was this bill that he presented yesterday. He said that lie no intention of offering It as a party measure. " '

The Benz bill puts Benton, Fulton. Pulaski and White in one senatorial district; Laporte and Starke together; Jasper, Lake, Newton and Porter together, and also gives Lake two senators of its own. Jasper is put with Porter for representative, instead of with White; White goes with Tippecanoe, and Tippecanoe is also given one representative of its own; Bqnton, Newton and Warren are thrown together; Fulton and Pulaski together; Laporte and Starke together, while Lake is given four representatives of its own.