Show t A Washington Daybook i f p y J C By RODNEY DUIC BUTCHER DUTCHER ER WASHINGTON April 15 pro 16 15 Prohibition Judging from the thc statements of ot dry leaders may receive a a. more serious blow between now and 1933 than it ever cr has suffered before fore The congressional redistricting necessary under the reapportionment law which must be bo carried out in time for the 1932 elections unless a state desires to ie elect its delegation to the house as at congressmen large arge will shUt shift a certain amount of or congressional strength from rural dry territory into urban wet Viet terri tern tor tory The drys may Ios lose as many as 50 house seats to the wets some rome of the themore themore more lu lugubrious prohibition leaders have warned as they sought to stir up their followers to do something about it If IC such predictions were approximately correct and if the 1932 1032 congressIonal congressional congressional con con- gressional elections showed wet gains in equal proportion to the election of ot last November it is easy to see that the wet-dry wet lineup In congress would be a lot more interesting than thon it has has' been heretofore with dry majorities averaging somewhere around three to one V WETS MIGHT GET l I MAJORITY The Association Against the Pro Pro- Amendment claims that of or representatives favor sion sian of prohibition to the people and If JC that is true only 57 more votes would be needed for a house majority although tho the wets claim only 22 out of 96 in the senate Hardly Hardy anyone really believes that the wets will gain 50 house seats Its It's a matter of conjecture but they will do well if they get half as ns many Nevertheless any time the wets vets can take a n score or more seats away from the drys all at once its it's going to be something for them to cheer about The drys drs of course think it would be a fine flue idea to amend the so as to stop including nU alien when population is counted fo for lor con coca gressional representation Uon That OUId hit the bl big wet centers where most of or the aliens are arc concentrated and keep the drys from losing those thoe s teats ats The proposed ed amendment sponsored by Senator Capper will be bemore 11 more and mid more mora vigorously but it c cant can't possibly be put into the OO constitution before the first tirs election Under tinder t th tt new setup in 1932 V RURAL SECTIONS FIGHT r OUT ISSUE Word comes m meanwhile a as M moa state legislatures struggle with re reo districting bills and ond s seems ms rife rUe that rural sections an and cities in Iu several states representing the dry and wet caum arc fighting out the issue at home To the extent that dry legislators cat can keep the cities from obtaining u ti the representation to which their POPulation tion entitles them under tho the 1930 1130 census the national effect cUed cret by increased wet congressional compression strength will be diminished Michigan l gained four represents under reapportionment and al at though Detroit has ha about hall half th the states state's population the dryer section have undertaken to see to it that she Ehi he gets only six con congressmen rc of oC he hel total delegation of oC 17 Cleveland which is wet et has been Ohio's two new representatives as he liei own and legislators from the rest o ci 01 the state have sought to keep then away from her Politically the states which have havi redistricted on the whole appear t tc Ic have given the Republicans a slight better break than tho the Democrat Missouri has had an especially inter esting partisan fight with witha a a. Demo cratic legislature plugging for I It party in the redistricting and a aRe Republican Re publican governor promising to vet any bill which injures injures' the G. G 0 O. O P. P |