Show PETERS introduces WORTHY MEASURE A bill which would increase the number lumber of 0 senators irom from eighteen to nineteen and which would decrease salt lake countes coun tys proportionate representation resen tation in the utah state senate making it five out of 0 nineteen members instead ot of as at present five out of 0 eighteen was introduced as senate bill no 2 in the senate by J W peters republican from the first district comprising box elder and tooele thoele counties the bill would increase tile the membership in the house to fifty tive five ot of which salt lake county would ile be allotted sixteen members under the proposed apportionment salt lake county with 2517 per cent of 0 the population ot of the state and with avith per cent of the vve wealth alth would have 2909 per cent of the voting strength of the house and only 2631 per cent in the senate at present salt lake county has per rent ant ot of the voting strength in III the senate and 2128 per cent in the house senator peters proposes to make the basis of 0 representation in III the state senate one senator tor for each inhabitants or major traction fraction ther thereof eor however lie proposes to divide the first senatorial district which he represents and which now has only population so that dox box elder county will have a senator all to itself aith inhabitants while tooele thoele county would be linked up with davis in what would be known as the thirteenth district with inhabitants with his proposed membership of litty fifty five in the house however the lowest constitutional number ot of senators would be nineteen since the s states basic law provides that the number of senators shall not be less than one third the number of 0 house members it if he were to take away the second member from weber and from utah counties therefore and also to combine his proposed third and fifth districts senator peters would have to add members somewhere else in order to meet the constitutional requirements A indicated the bill would chan change the boundaries of the first senatorial district by taking tooele thoele county away from box elder and leaving the latter a i rapidly grov eroding ving county as one senatorial district tooele thoele under the arrangement ran gement of the bill would be added to davis to form forin a new senatorial district brict numbered tile hie thirteenth davis dails is now in the third along with rich and morgan to take the place of 0 the population taken out ont of 0 the present third district senator peters would add to rich and morgan summit and daggett counties now in the fifth with a total population 0 of thus giving to its his proposed third district a total population of 0 to replace summit and dagget in bi the fifth he had added to that district uintah countes coun tys and lie he finds the present twelfth district to which uintah belongs large enough without these are the only changes proposed by senator peters in his senatorial districts which would under his reapportionment bill tabulate as follows first district dox cox elder county population on one member second district cache county population one member third district rich morgan summit and daggett counties one member fourth district weber county population two members fifth district wasatch duchesse Duc hense and uintah counties population one member sixth district salt lake county population five members seventh district utah county population two members eighth district juab and millard counties population one member ninth district sanpete county population one member tenth district sevier wayne plute and garfield Garti eld counties population one member eleventh district deaver beaver iron washington and zane kane I counties one twelfth district emery ein ry carbon grand and san sail juan counties population one member in III this district carbon county alone with 1 population lias has more population than the entire proposed third senatorial district thirteenth district davis and tooele thoele counties population one member the bill bibi Is worked out mathematically in the house on the basis of one representative tor for each inhabitants or major fraction thereof the constitution providing that each county shall caveat least one house member the proposed redistribution aution would leave all counties cepres represented anted as at present with the exception that box elder would get two representatives instead of one carbon would get two instead of one and salt lake would pet get sixteen instead of ton tell members box bos elders population is given by the 1920 census as carbons as and salt lakes as other counties having more than one member in the house now and retaining their present number under the reapportionment bill are cache three members sanpete San pete two members utah tour four members population ot of counties now having one member each and retaining this number in tile the proposed bill are deaver daggett davis davia Duch duchesne esue emery garfield grand aind 1808 iron juab kane 2051 1 millard morgan 2512 piute diute 2770 rich 1890 san sail juan 0 sevier summit thoele tooele uintah wasatch Wa washington wayne 2097 the measure provides that senator rutus rufus adams now elected from tile the third district would represent the new thirteenth in the 1923 senate and that a new seli senator ator would be elected from the new thud third district senator adams is a resident of davit davia county willell which it is proposed to change from the third to the thirteenth district senator william H smart now represent estrict ang ng the firth fifth would represent the district with the same number but different boundaries according t to the bill Trl tribune bune |