APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1789-1893. THE act of 1891 provides that after March 3, 1893, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 356 members, to be apportioned as follows: Oregon 2, Texas 13, Whenever a new State is admitted, Representatives assigned to it shall be in addition to the number 356. In each State entitled under this apportionment the number in the LIIId and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. These districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, no one district electing more than one Representative. In case of an increase in the number of Representatives from any State under this apportionment, such additional Representatives shall be elected by the State at large, and the other Representatives by the districts now prescribed by law until the Legislature shall redistrict such State, and if there be no increase in the number of Representatives from a State, the Representatives shall be elected from the districts now prescribed by law until such State be redistricted, as herein prescribed by the State Legislature. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon and Wisconsin gained one Representative each: Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas two each, and Nebraska three. The basis of representation for the last apportionment is found by dividing the total population of all the States by 356. Then by the quotient, which, from results of the Eleventh Census, is 173,901, the population of each State is divided. If the population be exactly divisible by that number, the answer will show how many members of Congress the State is entitled to; though no State can have less than one. As there is often a fraction left over after doing this sum in division, the total of all the answers will be something less than 356, as it happens 339. These seventeen Representatives are then allotted to the States having the largest fractions, one to each. The following exhibit shows the apportionment for the House of Representatives since the formation of the government : 4th cen- 5th cen- 6th cen- 7th cen- 8th census, Mar. sus, Mar. sus, Mar. sus, Mar. sus, Mar. 4, 1823. 4, 1833. 4, 1843. 35,000 40,000 3 47,700 70,680 4, 1853. 4, 1863. 9th cen- 10th cen- 11th census, Mar. sus, Mar. sus, Mar. 4, 1873 , 1883. 4, 1893. 3 3 1 3 7 3 7 10 11 Iowa. 2 6 CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENTS. ALABAMA. Alabama as redistricted Feb. 13, 1891: 1st District-Counties of Mobile, Washington, Clark, Monroe, Choctaw and Marengo. 2d District-Counties of Baldwin, Wilcox, Escambia, Covington, Conecuh, Butler, Crenshaw, Pike and Montgomery. 3d District-Counties of Geneva, Coffee, Dale, Henry, Barbour, Bullock, Russell and Lee. 4th District-Counties of Dallas, Chilton, Shelby, Talladega, Calhoun and Cleburne. 5th District-Counties of Lowndes, Augusta, Elmore, Macon, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Chambers, Clay and Randolph. 6th District-Counties of Sumter, Greene, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Lamar, Fayette, Walker and Marion. 7th District-Counties of St. Clair, Etowah, Cherokee, Marshall and DeKalb. 8th District-Counties of Colbert, Lawrence, Morgan, Jackson, Madison, Limestone and Lauderdale. ARKANSAS. Arkansas as redistricted by the Legislature of 1890-91: 1st District-Counties of Chicot, Desha, Phillips, Lee, St. Francis, Crittenden, Woodruff-Cross, Jackson, Poinsett, Mississippi, Craighead, Lawrence, Greene, Sharp, Randolph and Clay. 2d District-Counties of Bradley, Drew, Cleveland, Lincoln, Dallas, Jefferson, Grant, Hot Springs, Garland, Saline, Montgomery, Polk, Scott and Sebastian. 3d District-Counties of Ashley, Union, Calhoun, Ouichita, Columbia, Clark, Nevada, Lafayette, Hempstead, Pike, Howard, Sevier, Little River and Miller. 4th District-Counties of Pulaski, Perry, Yell, Logan, Pope, Johnson and Franklin. 5th District-Counties of Faulkner, Conway, Van Buren, Searcy, Newton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Washington and Burton. 6th District-Counties of Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Lonoke, White, Cleburne, Independence, Stone, Izard, Marion, Baxter and Fulton. COLORADO. Colorado as redistricted in 1891: 1st District-Counties of Lorimer, Weld, Morgan, Logan, Washington, Sedgwick, Phillips, Yuma, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Lake and Park. 2d District-The remainder of the State. Georgia as redistricted in 1891: GEORGIA. 1st District-Counties of McIntosh, Liberty, Bryan, Chatham, Tattnall, Bullock, Effingham, Screven, Emanuel and Burke. 2d District-Counties of Thomas, Decatur, Berrien, Colquitt, Worth, Mitchell, Miller, Baker, Early, Calhoun, Dougherty, Clay, Terrell, Randolph and Quitman. *For revisions and additions to this list, up to the moment of going to press, see Addenda, preceding Index. 3d District-Counties of Wilcox, Pulaski, Twiggs, Houston, Dooley, Lee, Sumter, Macon, Crawford, Taylor, Schley, Webster and Stewart. 4th District-Counties of Marion, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Talbot, Harris, Meriwether, Troup, Coweta, Heard and Carroll. 5th District-Counties of Johnson, Laurens, Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Irwin, Appling, Coffee, Pierce, Wayne, Glynn, Camden, Charlton, Ware, Clinch and Echols. 6th District-Counties of Baldwin, Jones, Bibb, Monroe, Butts, Henry, Spalding, Pike and Upson. 7th District-Counties of Cobb, Paulding, Haralson, Polk, Floyd, Barton, Gordon, Chattooga, Murray, Whitfield, Catoosa, Dade and Walker. 8th District-Counties of Jasper, Putnam, Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Clarke, Oglethorpe, Wilkes, Madison, Elbert, Hart and Franklin. 9th District-Counties of Gwinnett, Milton, Jackson, Banks, Hall, Forsythe, Cherokee, Pickens, Dawson, Habersham, White, Lumpkin-Gilmer, Fannin, Union Towns and Rabun. 10th District-Counties of Wilkinson, Washington, Jefferson, Bullock, Hancock, Warren, Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie and Taliaferro. 11th District-Counties of Walton, Newton, Rockdale, DeKalb, Fulton, Douglass, Campbell, Henry, Clayton, Fayette and Spaulding. Indiana as redistricted in 1891: INDIANA. 1st District-Counties of Posey, Vanderburg, Gibson, Pike, Warwick, Spencer and Perry. 2d District-Counties of Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Lawrence, Martin, Daviess, Green and Knox. 3d District-Counties of Harrison, Floyd, Clark, Scott, Jefferson, Jennings, Jackson and Washington. 4th District-Counties of Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn, Ripley, Decatur, Franklin, Rush and Shelby. 5th District-Counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Hendricks, Owen and Putnam. 6th District-Counties of Fayette, Union, Wayne, Randolph, Henry and Delaware. 7th District-Counties of Marion, Hancock and Madison. 8th District-Counties of Sullivan, Vigo, Clay, Vermillion, Park and Fountain. 9th District-Counties of Hamilton, Boone, Tipton, Howard, Clinton, Tippecanoe, Warren and Benton. 10th District-Counties of Lake, Newton, Porter, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, White, Cass and Carroll. 11th District-Counties of Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adams, Jay, Blackford and Grant. 12th District-Counties of Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, DeKalb, Whitley and Allen. 13th District-Counties of Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, St. Joseph, La Porte and Starke. MICHIGAN. The following gives the Congressional districts of Michigan as the State was apportioned under the census of 1890 by the last Legislature. The arrangement of the different counties under the bill, with the population of each, is: 1. The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 15th wards of the city of Detroit; population, 173,841. 2. Jackson, Lenawee, Washtenaw, Monroe, and the townships of Plymouth, Canton, Van Buren, Romulus, Sumpter, Huron, Brownstown, Monguagon, Taylor and Ecorse, and the city of Wyandotte in Wayne county; population, 192,779. 3. Hillsdale, Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo and Eaton; population, 172,309. 4. St. Joseph, Cass, Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan and Barry; population, 180,874. 5. Ottawa, Kent and Ionia; population, 178,081. 6. Ingham, Livingston, Genesee and Oakland, the townships of Livonia, Nankin, Dearborn, Redford, Springwell and Greenfield in the county of Wayne, and the 12th, 14th and 16th wards in the city of Detroit; population, 190,443. 7. Huron, Sanilac, Lapeer, St. Clair and McComb, and the townships of Grosse Pointe and Hamtramck in Wayne county; population, 181,441. 8. Tuscola, Saginaw, Shiawassee and Clinton; population, 172,342. 9. Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Mason, Lake, Wexford, Manistee, Benzic, Leelanaw and Manitou; population, 149,558, 10. Bay, Midland, Gladwin, Arenac, Ogemaw, Iosco, Alcona, Oscoda, Crawford, Montmorency, Alpena, Presque Isle, Cheboygan, Emmet and Otsego; population, 154,811. 11. Montcalm, Gratiot, Isabella, Mecosta, Osceola, Clare, Roscommon, Missaukee, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse, Antrim and Charlevoix; population 167,629. 12. Delta, Schoolcraft, Chippewa, Mackinac, Ontonagon, Marquette, Menominee, Dickinson, Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, Isle Royal, Alger, Luce, Iron and Gogebic (comprising the upper peninsula); population, 180,658. It is intended to give six safely Democratic districts-the 1st, 2d, 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th. The 6th and 9th are set down as doubtful, but as giving the Democrats more than a fighting chance. The 3d, 4th, 11th and 12th are safely Republican. By some the 5th is also classified as doubtful, but under ordinary circumstances it would undoubtedly be hard for the Republicans to carry it. MINNESOTA. Minnesota as redistricted in 1891: 1st District-Counties of Wabasha, Winona, Houston, Olmsted, Fillmore, Dodge, Mower, Steele, Freeborn and Waseca. 2d District-Counties of Blue Earth, Nicolet, Faribault, Brown, Watonwan, Martin, Jackson, Cottonwood, Redwood, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon, Pipe Stone, Murray, Rock and Nobles. 3d District-Counties of Goodhue, Dakota, Rice, Scott, Carver, Meeker, Sibley, Le Sueur and Renville. 4th District-Counties of Washington, Chicago, Isanti and Kanabee. 5th District-The county of Hennepin. 6th District-Counties of Anoka, Wright, Sherburne, Stearns, Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, Crow Wing, Atkins, Pine, Carlton, Cass, Wadena, Hubbard, Beltrami, Itasca, St. Louis, Lake and Cook. 7th District-Counties of Kandiyohi, Swift, Big Stone, Stevens, Pope, Traverse, Grant, Douglass, Wilkin, Otter Tail, Clay, Becker, Norman, Polk, Marshall and Kittson. NEBRASKA. Nebraska as redistricted in 1891: 1st District-Counties of Richardson, Pawnee, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Lancaster and Cass. 2d District-Counties of Sarpy, Douglass and Washington. |