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Show THE NEW APPORTIONMENT. Uuacr the new coniottionul appor- s tionmcot bill, tlie number of reprc- ' sontativeg is increased by forty mem-bora, mem-bora, and tlifl ratio of apportionment from l'-IT.OuO to about 136,000. The 1 axtfregato gain of the South is aixtccD members; of tho Weal, eighteen; of the Pacilic (slope, one; of the Middle Stated, New York, .New Jersey, Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Djluwar'1, five; and New Kn;.'Iand gains one in Massachusetts and lov!4 one each in Now Hampshire and Vermont. This bill practically prohibit ih't 'admission ol" any new State until it sKa.ll ha'o Kit),- i ijOO roprcbontative population, or a sufficient number to entitle it to a j member of congrod3. There is every reason for believing that this provis- j iion will become a law, as the influence ; of the .senate, and especially of the : old States, is more decided agaiudt tho i aJuihj.iion of new States with a small j population, thun in the house. The vote of the great Stato of New York: with its 4,3u0,000 inhabitants is offset j in the senate by that of Nevada with j iiB 38,y&9 people The State of Oregon by the late census has almost precisely j the population set down for Utah, and j Nebraska does not nearly oomo up to the requirement for a mombor of con- ! grcss. Tho admission of ovory now State decreases tho relative strength of tho old, and congress has at last determined de-termined to take a stand against tho admission of States without the requisite population to elect a member of congress. There is certainly nothing unfair in this; but it is equally true that as Territories aro now ruled, they present an abnormal foaturo in our system of republican government, their people have no voice whatover in their own affairs; but aro obliged to Bubmit to all tho exactions that may ho imposed upon thorn by tho frequently small politicians who aro placed over them. Some better system should bo devised for territorial governments, either to bring them more directly under tho control or supervision of congress or to give tho people interested a larger voice in their management. It is not likely that Utah will have to wait many years before she will bo entitled to come into tho union as a State, even under this restriction, as her population is in- ; creasing very rapidly; but congress at. ; this session should do something to i mako her condition more tolerable. : Tho national legislature scarcely deem j it worth while to pay tho slightest at- : tention to. its territorial wards, which ; aro exclusively under its control, and in which tho pcoplo of the entire j nation are interested, and it id time J that the representatives of the people J began to look at this question in its J proper light. i |
