Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 4 | New House of Congress

NEW HOUSE OF CONGRESS BJ I'nder the new census, the lower house of congress will hae lj 500 members, unless there is a new uppointment This would I ; increase of 6., the present membership being 435, The house is fast becoming an unwieldy body and the sugges-tion sugges-tion has lu-en made that there should be a constantly increasing ratio of population to membership. Today it requires 211, 77 to have a ' j congressman, although there is si least one state with only wl.(Hi 1 accorded a congressman. When the first national legislature was organized the house Hj had 6-. Then under the first apportionment for every 33.000 people Hij there was on.- representative, making lO.i. This jumped to 141 at the Hl next census. By is"" tin hMs. numbered 2 t4. Thirty years Ian r In Is!" the number resr to 356; 1900 to :tsf. and then, with a bigger increase in population, the membership w ;ls made 4 The forecast is that the apportionment will ho brought up to 240,00. This would not disturb I'tah's npre-Kentiitien, as the popula-Hj popula-Hj tion. under the new requirement would be larc- enough to give two I OHMJISMIIHHI 19 isH '3w !;::' isV sLH I