Show TWENTY PENTY SENATORS t 1 U THIRTEEN DISTRiCTS i oi o i New Law Enacted at decent Session of of Legislature Legislature Places 9 J Jd d and Uintah Counties in Fifth r Under Under- the new law Duchesne and Uintah counties are to compose the Fifth It s senatorial l district Heretofore Heretofore a Duchesne esne h has has s been a a part part o of the the F Fifth th inc including S Wasatch and nd Summit Sum Sum- mit Uintah has ihas been part of tile the Twelfth including Carbon Grand Emery S Senator W. W H. H Smart el elected ct d from the Fifth district ct j in 1920 1920 sh shall 11 il continue In office for the term for which he was elected J H S Salt Lakes Lake's delegation in the house succeeded In putting through th the house the reapportionment bill billJ J I that has been a bone of contention ever since Its Ita introduction in the sen senate te on on January 2 In doing so Speaker Callister who led the fight on th the floor for the passage of the measure I re completely outmaneuvered R Representative of Kane c county who led the opposition f Utah ever since statehood lias been trying to secure the passage o or 01 ora a reapportionment bill but every at attempt attempt at- at tempt temper has been frustrated The con constitution constitution con con- n provides for a reapportionment reapportion reapportion- reapportionment r on ment every five e e years rears but whenever the the effort has been m made de it has been defeated The senate refused to concur In Inthe int t the lo e long house amendment which had been offered l oj by y U I MacShane and requested the house to rec recede recede e The The motion was made mad that the house and Immediately voiced his opposition H He explained that he had not fought the bill as amended by the house wi wl ich ch would have divided the state into eight senatorial districts wIth three senators from each district a K but J that he was absolutely oppose opposes opposed V s t to the the senate bill as originally pass- pass r ed He JIe was surprised he said sam toe to e find nd that those who had originally r 1 favored the bill bUl as amended no not now t S 'S were we're favoring the recession from the 0 amendments Fears rears Loss of ot Measure Mr Callister replied by stating g that he had been Informed that if the house house did did not recede there would 1 be e no reapportionment this year and and n probably none for several years year due to the provisions provisions' of the state tc Continued f on on Last Page TWENTY S SENATORS SENATORS From Page One constitution The Kane county representative r then declared that It appeared t thim to him as if the constitution were being being being be be- ing handled just as certain i Individuals individuals divid- divid wish to Interpret it it t and h he cited the tho fact that fact that many of the Sal Salt Lake delegation had voted agaInst the passage of House b bill lI No 20 which provided for the insertion In Inthe Inthe inthe the constitution of the provision that tax taxes s for school purposes s should equal 25 for or each p person of school I. I age ge and this he declared declared af after e the the the state ha had voted to io place such an amendment in the constitution To this the speaker of ot the house replied d that it was wrong to wander from the constitutional provisions and declared th that t the members ers of ot the house should stick to it ft and he used this assertion to back up his arg argument ment in favor ot of passing a reapportionment bill In accordance accordance accordance ac ac- ac- ac with the provi provisions ions of the theco co constitution Amendment Stricken I Representative Sevy evy declared himself him him- himself self against receding from th the house I amendment saying he favored reapportionment reapportionment reapportionment reap- reap by means of a constitutional constitutional constitutional amendment to be voted by bythe bythe bythe the people of the state Several other members expressed themselves themselves themselves them them- selves for or against receding Mc- Mc Shane who offered the amendment asking for a c conference committee and promising to support the report of ot such a committee On the question question question ques ques- tion shall the house the vote was 25 ayes aes 20 nays nas absent 2 2 There was some further argument argument argument ment and the previous us question was then moved and carried and the vote on passage of ot the bill as it I came from the senate taken The result was ayes aos 28 nays 17 a absent 2 Those voting In favor of ot reapportionment reapportionment were Boswell Carey Clawson Clegg Crouch Davis Douglas Howell Ivers Ivors Iverson Knight t McIntyre McShane Madsen Mills l S S. S W. W Morrison Jr Parker Quinney Rhees Sander Stephens Swenson Thorne Thome Welch Whitmore Winder and Callister Those v voting ing In the negative were Crook Day Finlinson Harris Hen Hen- Imlay Killion Lewis Ly- Ly man Meeks A. A W W. Morrison Norris Norris Nor- Nor ris Olson Peterson Sevy and Wood Tho Those Thoro absent and and not voting were Hammond an no d a and d Jorg Jorgen- Jorgen n- n j Sen Passage of the he Peters reapportionment reapportion reapportion- ment bill was s said ld to be the most important Important Im im- tm- tm piece of ot legislation enacted at the recent session At least this this' was the opinion of the members of the Salt Lake delegation who ed that It would give that city and and county and Ogden and Weber county county coun coun- ty Ity the representation In the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture that really was due to these sections and they also declared that it would tend to heal the breach between the large cities and the w country Country members member hO however how how- I Iver ever ver declared that the effect would i b be e just th the opposite and that t J the tho e tendency would be bo more likely to o widen the breach The Peters bill divides divides dl ldes the state Into nto thirteen senatorial districts with twenty senators It is at present present pres- pres ent nt divided Into twelve districts with eighteen senators senators The alignment under the the-bill the bill as it passed is as follows fol- fol 1 lows I First district Boxelder county j I jone Ione one senat senator r Second district C Cache che county one senator Third district Rich Morgan J Summit Wasatch asat h and arid Daggett r counties one sen senator tor Fourth district Webe Weber county two senators i Fifth FIrth district Duchesne and Uintah counties one senator Sixth district Salt Lake county 0 six senators I Seventh district Utah county two senators Eighth district Juab and Millard l senator c d e Ninth district Sanpete county one senator Tenth district Sevier r Wayne Plute Piute Kane and Garfield counties one senator C 4 Eleventh district Beaver and Washington counties one sena sena- tor Twelfth district Emery Carbon Grand and San Juan counties one senator j I Thirteenth district Davis Davis- and Tooele counties one senator House Members Increased Representation in the senate under under under un un- t der th the measure measure- Is on the basis of f J Jone one senator for each Inhabitants inhabitants tants or major fraction thereof re residing residing residing re- re siding within such senatorial distract district dis dis- tract and it is that provided each J senatorial district shall have at l least st stone one senator Representation in the lower lowerhouse lowerhouse lowerhouse r house under the bill is ison on the basis of ot one one representative to each 10 inhabitants and it is provided that each county shall be entitled to at least one representative The number of representative districts remain at twenty-nine twenty based on the number of counties in the state but the membership of the house is in increased increased In- In creased from fifty seven forty-seven to The a alignment Is as as follows First district Boxelder county two representatives Second district Cache county three representatives Third district Rich county one I represent representative Fourth district Weber county four representatives Fifth district Morgan bounty one representative I Sixth district Davis c county one n representative J r Seventh district ct Tooele Tooele county one one representative Eighth district Salt Lake county sixteen representatives Ninth district Summit county one representative Eleventh district Utah county four r representatives Twelfth district Uintah county one representative Thirteenth district Juab county one representatives Fourteenth district Sanpete two representatives Fifteenth district Carbon county two representatives Sixteenth district Emery county I Ione one representative Seventeenth district Grand county county coun coun- ty ly one representative Eighteenth district Sevier county one representative Nineteenth district Millard l county county county coun coun- ty one representative Twentieth district Beaver county county county coun coun- ty one representative Twenty-fist Twenty district Piute county one representative Twenty-second Twenty district Wayne county one representative Twenty-third Twenty district Garfield county one representative Twenty-fourth Twenty district Iron ion count county county coun- coun t ty one represent representative Twenty fifth district Washington county one representative Twenty-sixth Twenty district Kane Bane county county county coun coun- ty one representative Twenty Twenty-seve Twenty seventh th district San Juan county count one representative Tw Twenty eighth district Duchesne county ona one representative Twenty-ninth Twenty district Daggett county on one representative By the reapportionment bill bUl Salt Lake Lako gains gains' one senator and Boxelder county one one senator Salt Lake will have sixteen Instead ot of often ten members members members mem mem- bers in in the house Boxelder will gain another house member and Carbon will have two me members In Instead instead instead in- in stead of one The bill provides that the senator elected In in inthe the Third hird district at the tho 1920 election n shall continue in of office of- of fice during the term for which he was elected as the senator for the Thirteenth senatorial district and It further provides that the electors of the Third district shall at the general gener gener- al election in 1922 elect a senator for a year two-year term t i |