Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — The Re apportionment Bills. [ARTICLE]

The Re apportionment Bills.

The Republican members of the Senate and Houses legislative Teapportionments committees will probably be called together, some time this week, to oonsider a plau that will be recommended to the party oaucus for fiual adoption. Reapportion meut bills have been introduced in the Senate by Senator Wood and Senator Gray, and by Mr, Bamberger, in the House, Mr. Bamberger is chairman of the house reapportionment oommittee and he prepared his own bill. “I have not attempted a gerrymander,” he said to-day. “I am oonvinoed, after studing the situation that the Republicans have a safe majority without trying to gerrymander tbe State. My bill does not provide for many changes in the present districts. It gives the Republicans fifty-nine sure representative districts, the Democrats thirty-nine anc two doubtful It will give the Democrats seventeen Senator and Republicans thirt-tbree, unless there should be a landslide one way or the' other.

“ I think I have drawn the bill so that it will be constitutional.” Only two reapportionment measure enected since 1875 have stood the test in 'the Supreme Court. The unit of population, this time for the rebresentative districts is 6,643 for senatorial district 13,886. Most of the ohanges recommended in the three reapportionment bills bills are in the north and oentral part of the State, which have enjoyed greater development than southern Indiana.