| Show apportionment tho the utah commission is understood to bo be at vi work ork on oil tile the reapportionment 0 of f tile tho terr territory I 1 tory into legislative districts it might tol glit possibly help a little to havo have t I 1 I 1 a subject openly discussed to some extent ext and to hour boar suggestions bearing on the tho will k and with that view space Is hero here givon given for tile tho draft of a suggestion la in tho the matter it has always been a favorito method with tho the legislature of utah to nako make groups of counties and elect clcil not from single districts hut but tile number of councilors councillors Counci lors and representatives that tho the population comprised in fit tile tho grouped districts would bo be entitled to on a general ticket from tho the combined count counties leL it Is true that gross cross inequalities wore mere often tile tho result of this ibis but that was by no means tho the insult of the idea involved the inequalities jarose from au an Imper imperfect foot carrying lne out of the plan it would at any time have hare been quito quite to carry out tho the idea and dual deal out under it justice to all it bolog ass assumed timed thou from the con stant employment of this toothed without any special objection final any source that tho the basis involved in this method of apportionment is ono one approved by tho the people it will not bo be out of place to present a plan of apportionment handed by a friend to two var based bjeld ou on tho the usage that has gone rally prevailed it ir such for this territory ills argument Is that tho the should bo be based first of all upon too the actual population shown by alio census but abero inequalities necessarily arise and districts cannot readily be framed althous Alt hout showing lower fewer people la in one than another the larrer districts meri medically cally should bo be those area line lias shot shon n the least increase or perhaps even it a decrease in tho the dorado decade abilo tho the smaller population may fairly bo be in tho the districts that have shown great increase with tho the promise of continued advancement in tho the bamo or approximate degree that limitation mould indicate as applied to the pending apportionment tion ment ot of elili territory that the districts composed ot of salt lako and weber counties these having by all odds outstripped tho the others in actual growth might reasonably ho be awarded a larger representation lit in tho the legislature chaa their more mere numbers might give them its as shown last year balth the certainly that hat in n tho the latter half of at tile ensuing decade their population would yet exceed that of other districts that just now might appear to have moro people tha than 1 thoy they wo we say appear advisedly for or lh 1111 0 population 1 taken a car previous Is hut but nu an imperfect sh shoeing for a rapidly growing groa ing community while it will do full justice to a stationary county tho the population ot of tho the several counties of tile the territory was vas shown by lat last la t years census to bo be as follows foll compared with their population in ill 1880 couett ISM 1890 isso a 3 3 18 box elder cache I 1 baila ila Is 9 finery broo 2 2417 grand iron sm juab 5 bbb 1171 kne kano 1111 alws as ass 3 7 1780 I 1 1763 T 83 plain 2 2842 I 1 brict blell 1 1027 1 2113 suit salt lak iala 0 58 4 57 81 jin ji n san joao Jn iio 04 sol san pew 1157 basler ai 3 2292 70 I 1 alth till 1703 was t 2127 2027 4 mabee totals it will be that there has been an ail actual falling failing ou oil in the population of it of tho the coun counties tins as in fit and washington hoso boundaries hao hale remained the alio samo same tho the failing oft off in iron county Is accounted tor for by tho the creation from tho the cast part of it of garfield garbold county the population of uintah shows a great percentage of increase but that cornes comes chiefly from it the e settlement of ashley valley and no further remarkable increase Is to bo be expected there unless the indian reservations bo be thrown open to settlement which Is not probable NN ith these explanations pla nations of principles principle inched Ino hed our friends plan is as follows mner council in Ai lutlo rivel knoo kaoo ter iron garfield san juan pluto boyer millard count counti toi cs VI mah 1 2 sr fu allon sn palo e t eerier population ill 1 a 9 uta la 1 I 1 anand 0 atell ratch sulamit copula lion a OKI MD 1 3 morgan bels juab population 1 8 9 box killer elder cache mob I 1 a 8 1 urba ber too 8 2 3 salt alsko I 1 I 1 totals 13 i 2 21 ii it vi ill III bo be observed that this gives fives to an excess of population an ail addition il al member of tho the lower house BO as in the sum summit raft d district and tho the cache district and ad n cuts off ono one in the S salt alt lake district tor for an apparent deficiency on tho the exact ratio which requires for a Represent atho and double that for a councilor it may bo be that tho the commission will prefer to follow the present system of single districts instead of grouping counties count los as heretofore and clec electing ting on a coll common ticket for each district all tho the members to which such ill district Is entitled possibly better results con bo be had bad by adherence to the present instead of former methods of apportion apportionment mouL it if so that will of course settle the watter matter but at all events clonts it Is not dot amiss to show that all tho the conditions ot of the problem can bo be considered and mot met by an adherence to a bethol methol so long ob served and approved in this territory |
