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Show APPORTIONMENT BILL IS COMING UP TODAY If Held Constitutional, Author Says the Measure Will Be Passed. The Pope apportionment bill will prob-i prob-i ably come before the house for final ! passage today. Representative Pope declared" de-clared" vesterdav that if the attorney gen-i gen-i eral holds that the bid is constitutional it will receive & majority of both houses in the state legislature. This bill provides- for the election of one senator from each county in the state, irrespective of population, and for the apportionment of the members of the house according to population, always providing- that every county shall have at least one representative. Under this bill, Salt Lake would have one senator and nineteen representatives, whereas this county now has five senators and ten representatives. Mr. Pope 'said that the bill would receive re-ceive the support of all the members of both houses, save only those from Salt Lake county. The question of the constitutionality of the bill ari?es from the fact that the constitution provides that there shall be an apportionment of the state following each decennial census. No legislature heretofore has paid any attention to this provision of t.ie constitution and Mr. Pope holds that there is no constitutional prohibition to doing it now. However, some lawyers disagree with him and express ex-press the opinion that the apportionment must take place only at the session of the legislature following: a decennial census, cen-sus, which would mean that there could be no reapportionment of the state prior to 1521. |