Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-12-04


Sam DIVISIONS between The two as appear IN this Con
'on'ion IT could Produce no good a. il inyft be fear
60 wOhId produce some mischief II would be sal
tra one ht1nca IS the representaiiv at one division
Tue ,1ate and the nher branch OF anothr division
VI " OSght thy not both 10 represent the whole
te' he was ready to submit TO suc, an ARRANGEMENT
~ should he the opinion OF nialorily of The House
TINS Convention shall think it best th,t the House
- Dele .ues sh1uid be organized one ely, and tle
senate another. he should not withhold his assent
ui'e me said Mr NJ, Constitution thai should be
received by the people Constitution in which hei,
uincrent interests shall be duly represented and he
would take IT. though il might not be that Cornsti,,I
tion OF which he would most approve.
I While he agreed in the main TO the proposition
Gnc'ed by the gentleman from Chesterfield MIR.
Leigh there nre some slight objections TO it, Il is
not perfectly eqnal II you take the census of 1920
The basis of computation. ii had prepared no plan
t"iay before the committee, but he made some cal
cuiatlons "a guide his Judgment going TO she,y
"hat The apportionncut ought TO be on the basis he
assumed Ills ground was that the ratio ought 10 be
an exact COMPROMISE of the principle of white pouu
iation, and thot Of the federal numbers lie had
sndeavourec To calculate the result of such ratio
The whole white population being 6O3 e8I and the
i'use OF Delegates consisting of 30 rernbers each
member VIII represent 47oi white persons. The
country west Of the Allegheny, having 100, 100 will
De emitted to q members and large fraction He
had therefore given them the fraction and allowed
them 20 members. The Valley containing lei .o9G
white persons, would be entitled to p members
The district lying between the Blue Ridge and tide
wster having 1886 free whites will be entitled to
3s members, and large fraction He therefore al
lowed TO thst district 40 delegates The tide yarer
district containing 59,5l7 Will be entitled to SO de-
cga'e This will be the rntio taking the free white
population as the basis He would now take the
basis ri the federal numbers. The whole siate con-
tans 305 oO3 federal persons. Each mcIuber there
lore VIII represent 1891 federal PERSONS The wes
tern district containing I42I47 federal persons viii
DC entitled To 90 delegates. The Valley, containing
i4SOS3 federal persons will also be entitled to %
delegates. The middle district, CONTAINING $1,000
federal persons, will be entitled to Is delegates and
large fraction, he would therefore give &C. The
TIDE water district containing $50 GIG federal persons
VIII DC entitled TO 80 delegates Adding these re-
suits OF the white basis and of federal numbers and
dividing the amount by two, the following averaqc OF
the two ratios was the result-for the trans Accha
district "a delegate; for the Valley 23i for the
middle district 43 and for the Underwater dstric, 60
Adopting an exact compound of these two ratios
he sai we onght TO carry the principle through and
take the above nuinbers-uness he had committed
some arthneticaI error; this was possible bur he
thnIght lie had not. The principle therefore which
he proposed as compromise is that the aoDortiuu-
ment OF representation shall be made accordiun IN
an exact compound of this two principles OF the White
basis, and OF the federal numbers ACCORDING IN the
census OF 1920. There could be but one objection
to this calculation. 1t is that the census of 1920 is
not the census of 1929. This he admitted; but every
tMng OF this census nf 1929 considered as a basis
rests so much on conjecture, that would be difficult
so to reconcile conectureS to any satsfac-
tory result. lie had therefore taken the ccnens OF
1920 preferable corectural basis for thus nl,;r
reason:--the proposition O! the u,ntlcrn,n e.
Chesterfield which had his entire appreciation wi 1
this modification admits large increase of number
m mat part which wiii probably suffer by The censu
OF 1899. Should there be any injustice therefore.
cannot be permanent, if j. be even in
JHsce and If q temporary injustice should be dino
1t would soon be remedied by the operation of new
census, or by the rest of The scheme itself He
WISHED TO avoid going into the debate Of the amor
tionmcnt IN each county. That might be left TO tho
FIRST Legislature which shall assemble under nh,
amended Constitution Let the first House of Del.
egates be constituted of fvo Representatives. from
each Senatorial District; shall then have n Hou.o
of 100 Delegates, who will be moro competent than
we are. to apportion the like representation among
the counties, and who can more approximately nnr
frm that office He should regret TO see the time
OF the Convcn ion wasted in balancing tho cont ro
veries Of the counties, because one has rather
than its neighbour He had barely thrown TINT ont
however, for consideration. He only wished that
the calculations may be understood by the Convention
together with the principles on which thty had b,.en
made. He would not offer any distinct proposjtior
to the COMMITTEES. But, il the principles of his cal
cuation were understood and had any WEIGHT !,
would be necessary TO carry them in our minds in
order that we may compare them with those of the
several propositions already offered He concluded
with reading the following a summary view of the
results TO which he had arrived
go, mr. I.rioH'S Plan 10 House Of lac Members
White population by the Census Of 1920 In co2 oa
10 House of 10 each member will represent persons 7s
West Of the Allegheny. ISSloO sT-3,743 %
Blue RIDGE '"' I2l,O96 25-I,a2l -
Between the Blue Ridge andi ,ooo A.. ., -
Tide Water, ioS''So SS-%'5OI 40
o" Tide Yaer 1857 33-I,4i4 SO
6OJO69 Ia I2s
Federal numbers amounts eq5 no
Each member will represent persons 7OU
West Of tire Allegheny, II2,II7 2O-I ST On
Between the Alrghaty and a., 40, .. , =
Blue Ridge, i7-'V'S <O-l'4o5 20
Between the Blue Ridge andS o,oo ~ a.. -
Tide Water, '"0'V~' 4o-O'3SS ~
On Tide waer 2so6ie 99-6,nO 80
g9497I Us l26
To divide the epportoncut between white population and
federal numbers:
Yves, ofthe Allegheny, vm,1I"",cs,, ~
Between ihe Aieghany( White. -
/ aud Blue Ridge : Federal, "a