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Show STATES THAT MAY LOSE SEATS IN CONGRESS. The enormous growth of population which tho census of 1910 records hns been spread very unevenly over tho country. In Iowa thero has been no browth nt nil. In other states, ns Missouri, Mis-souri, Kentucky, and Maine, the growth hns been very slight. In such 8tntes, obviously, to raise tho representation repre-sentation ratio would mean to reduco the number of representatives to which tho state is entitled. This sort of thing has happened ngaln nnd again, but naturally no state enjoys It. Thus, Virginia, which after the census of 1790 was given 19 Beats and In the next docado 23, wns compelled com-pelled by reason of her comparative slowness of growth to Seo thorn stripped strip-ped from her until in tho seventies sho had hut 9 and today has but 10. Maryland has been reduced from 8 to C Now Hampshire, from 4 to 2! Connecticut, Con-necticut, from 7 to fi; Maine from 8 (In 1S;:0) to 1. Massachusetts has baroly preserved tho same number (14) with which Bhe started In 1790. Thero hns been only three cencuses the Inst one In 1890 which did not entnl the loss of seat by one or moro states. Unless by tho forthcoming reapportionment reappor-tionment tho House shall ho . increased in-creased to at least 425, thor'o musV be losses of congressional seats, and""llke wise of votes in the Electoral Col-leger Col-leger by a large number of states. From commonwealths most likely td suffer, New Hampshire, Indiana, Mid-' Souri, Iown"? Wisconsin, Kentucky, and" States 'farther south has nrlson an Insistent demand for such an Increase of tho House ns will mako It posstblu to provide adequato representation for the growing populations of States like New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, nnd Texas, without at the snmo time withdrawing sents for tho states that aro growing less rnpldly. Tho lssuo Is ns old ns tho nation. In earlier times there wero struggles over It which were prolonged somo-t'lmes somo-t'lmes through two sessions, or ovon over from ono Congress to anothor. Twenty years ago a contest of tho sort was averted by tho understanding which prevailed from tho frlst that no state was to bo deprived of any portion por-tion of Its existing quotn. Hut ten yenrs ago thero wns a great fight, with the result, ns has almost Invariably Invar-iably . happened, that tho large-bouso party 'triumphed. Tho Burleigh bill, providing for 3SG seats, was carried In opposition to tho Hopkins bill, reported re-ported by tho majority of the House committee, providing for tho contlnu- i nnce of tho existing number 357., H F?om "Tho Reapportionment of tha H House," by Frederic Austin Ogg, lu the American Kevlewr- of Kevlews for G February.. |