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Show I HO, though it was made much lator. What is a census taken for if not for just uch purposes as the one in question? ques-tion? Wo seek no innovation, no extraordinary ex-traordinary tribunal, nut just the same old board as that which determined our present division. If tho new apportionment ap-portionment results in changing or modifying mod-ifying the political complexion of the next or future legislature, why, then, It will bo duo to the change in population sineo 180. Let Mr. Caine relapse into his old state of quietude. THE KK-Ari'OltriUNMKNT. We learn from Washington that Delegate Del-egate Caine is the busie.-t man in that city in the closing hours of tho lifty-fir;t congress. He haunts committee commit-tee rooms and buttonholes congressmen congress-men anil d.mces attendance in the lobbies as if the life of his constituency depended on it. What, pray, is the cause of our delegate's sudden animation? anima-tion? Is it the chance of a round appropriation ap-propriation for a public building; or is it the hope of aiding jn go,me silver compromise? Oh, no. It is to defeat the re-apportionment bill that our representative rep-resentative has been galvanized by wire into feverish activity. activ-ity. While tho Herald holds its breath in anxious expectation Mr. Caine gallops about the capital like a frisky war steed. We knew he would, but we fear not his intluence. When The Times first mentioned the need of a reapportionment the Herald pretended to invite it. "We would gain at least two representatives," it exclaimed. We wonder why it does not call olf Mr. Caine if it U honest in its belief. There is assuredly no reason why Utah should not bo reapportioned under the lata census, since her last apportionment ap-portionment is based ou the census of |