The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-

The bill to provide for the apportion-a
ment of representatives to Congress
among the several States was passed by
the House April 18th. We give below
the bill as amended by Senator Trumbull,
in the Senate. 1t has been read twice,
and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
1t gives a member for l33, 900 pOpula-
ton, and would entitle Kansas to three,
perhaps to four members of Congress.
The Committee expect to pass it this
week. =
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States
of America in Congress ass embed,
That from and after the third day of
MARCH, eighteen hundred ana seventy
one, the House of Representatives shall
be composed of three hundred members,
to be apportioned among the several
States in accordance with the provisions
of this act: Provided. that if after such
apportionment shall have been made,
any new State shall have been admitted
into the Union, the representative or
representatives of such new State shall
be additional to the number of three
hundred herein limited /; and if the rep
resentation of any State shall be increas-
ed by such superintendent, any addi-
tional representative or representatives
of such State in the Forty-second Con-
gress shall be chosen by the State at
large. 1888 =
* SEC. 9. And be it further enacted,
That Immediately after the next enum-
Grafton of the inhabitants of the United
States shall have been completed accord
ing to law, and before the first day of
October, eighteen hundred and seventy,
the Superintendent of the Census shall
prepare and submit to the Secretary of
the Interior preliminary report of the
results of such enumeration, embracing
such statistics as shall be necessary to
enable the Secretary of the Interior to
perform the duties in this act prescribed.
SEC. 3 And be it further enacted,
That after the preliminary report pro-
vided for in the foregoing section shall
have been submitted to the Secretary of
the Interior, he shall ascertain from
such preliminary report, the basis of
representation of each State, and the
aggregate basis of representation of the
| United States, and he shall ascertain the
basis of representation of the several
congressional districts by dividing the
aggregate basis of representation of the
United States by the number three hum
1 dred. rejecting any fraction of a unit
/
tain the number of representatives to
be apportioned to each State by diyid-
| ing the basis of representation of such
| State by the basis of representation of
the several congressional districts, re-
| jecting any fraction of unit which
may remain and he shall apportion SO
many additional representatives to the
States having the largest rejected frac-
tions, one to each as shall make the
whole number of representatives, three
hundred.
| SEC. 4. And be it further enacted.
! That the Secretary of the Interior shall,
ON the receipt Of such preliminary re-
/ port, Immediately prepare and transmit,
i under the seal of his Office. to the Speak
er of the House of Representatives. and
to the governor of each Of the States, a
certified statement of his proceedings
under the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted,
That ali acts end parts of acts in conflict
with the provisions of this act are here
1 by repealed.
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