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Show INCREASE HOUSE MEMBERSHIP Census Committee Agrees That We Should Have 483 Congressmen. Washington. The house census committee has agreed to report to congress con-gress the Stegel bill fixing the membership mem-bership of the bouse at 483, an increase in-crease of forty-eight over the present membership. It also recommended a constitutional amendment limiting the membership of future houses to 500. The basis for representation was fixed at one member for every 218,979 inhabitants. Under this bill the states would gain as follows: Alabama 1, Arkansas 1, California 5, Connecticut 1, Georgia 1, Illinois 3, Maryland . 1, Massachusetts 2, Michigan Michi-gan 4, Minnesota 1, New Jersey 2, New Mexico 1, New York 4i North Carolina 2, Ohio 4, Oklahomu ,1, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania 4, South Carolina 1, Tennessee 1, Texas 3, Virginia 1, Washington 1, West Virginia 1, Wisconsin Wis-consin 1. No state would lose any representation. representa-tion. ' |