The Worthington advance., 1881-02-24

upon a basis Of $4,000 population for q
Senator and 5000 for Representative.
The number. under the new census,
would be IS Senators and 100 Represen-
tatlves. Mobiles, Rock, Murry and
Pipestore are to be put together into
one Senatorial district and will he enti
tied to two Representatives.
THE FLOODS
While the Northwest has been suffer
ing from snow storms and blockades,
the rest of the country has suffered i'm
mense]y from floods. California has
been almost under water. From New
York to New Orleans, the country
along the rivers has been flooded. At
Baltimore, Washington, Harrisburg,
Pittsburg, Toledo, Columbus, Louis
vile, Kansas City, and wherever there
IN any low or bottom land, the country
has been under water. At Toledo the
guests were removed from the Island
House in boats and the railroad offices
were flooded up to the second story.
NEW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
The congressional apportionment
committee have substantially agreed
upon Il plan for re-districting the State
into five congressional districts. What
is now the First District has had tier
of counties north of it added on and
then it is cut in two by a north and south
line and made into two districts. The
eastern district will be the First Dis
trict and the western will be called the
Second. The middle belt Of the State
will be divided the same way into two
districts to be called the Third and
Fourth. The Northern belt will he
made into one to he called the Fifth
District.
The counties in the Second or South
western District are as follows:
Scott, lie Sueur, Waseca, Nicollet,
Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan, Mar
tin, Redwood, Cottonwood, Jackson,
Lac qui' Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lyon,
Lincoln, Murray, Pipestone, Mobiles,
Rock.
HAYES
1t is now claimed that President
Hayes has regularly drawn his salary
in advance in violation of law. We
should not be surprised to know that
this is the case. Ii ever an impartial
history of Hayes administration is
written it will show that he has been
one o; the weakest Presidents that ever
occupied the chair The man who gave
every member Of the returning boards
and their clerks fat offices for counting
him into the chair; the man who issued
Civil Service Order No. ], and then put
every prominent member Of his govern
ment into the field to violate it; the man
who made ont il pardon for an old man
wrongfully imprisoned and then III the
most cowardly manner declined to sign
it because his wife and her preacher op-
posed it, is certainly not much of 4
President. lie has certainly been the
President of 'Snivel'' Service Re-
form.
COUNTING THE I'OTE.
The electoral vote was counted on the
9th. Senator Thurman, one of the tel
lers, read the result as follows:
The tellers report tho whole number
of electors appointed to vote for presi-
dent of the United States was SEQ, of
which Il majority is 1S5. We're the
votes OF the electors for the State of
Geor@is-cast the second Wednesday in
December, 1850, being the eighth day of
the sai'l mont!l-to be counted, the re-
suit would be for Garfield for president,
2l4. and for Hancock. l55. # not coun-
ted, the result would be for Garfield for
for president, 214, and for Hancock, IA.
In either event James A. Garfield has
received Il majority of the votes of the
whole number of electors appointed.
Vice President Wheeler then declar-
ell Garfield and Arthur duly elected
President ard Vice President for four
years commencing March 18th.
RAILROAD BILLS.
In the legislative reports for Feb. End,
we find the following relating to the
transfer Of our railroad:
a series Of bills, authorizing the Chi
cagO, st. Paul, Minneapolis Il Omaha
Railroad company to purchase the fran
c!,lSeS and equipments OF the st. Pan!
u Sioux City, Worthingon l. Sioux
Falls: st. Paul, Saltwater & Taylor's
Falls, Chicago, st. Paal & NIinneapo-
lis and Black Hills railroads, were con i.
si,lered by the house in committee of
the whole yesterday and recommended
to pass, with the following amendment
to the bills relating to the st, Paul l.
Sioux City and st. Paul Il Saltwater
roads: Nothing in this act contained
shall he construed us making the lands
held 10y or in the name of the st. Paul
Il Sioux City Railroad company more
or less taxable than they would have
been it this act had not passed, or to af.
feet, lessen or increase the rights of the
state us to or against said cOmpanv on
account OF amy acts heretofore done,
Mr.. Dunn succeeded in Attaching an
amci','mcnt chat 'wlen exercising the
right of eminent domain the Chicago.
st. Panl Il Minneapolis railway under
It's new title should lie considered \ do
meSti: corporation" thus admitting If
the trial Of suits III the courts of the
State. The bills were subsequently, pass
ell under suspended rules.
OIER AT LOST IIMBER
The L.,Crosse News says:
n Daily News reporter last evening
lntervIewed st. Louis gentleman who
has been III the western part of Mjnne-
Sofa Since the 1st Of last month, arriv
ing here from Wells last uipht. lIe
stated that for miles along the railway
the telegraph poles were entirely con.
c-altd by the huge drifts. and in the
Cl'anaramheau valley the snow was nil.
ed in, filling a valley twenty miles long
with sixty feet banks level full. x
passenger train at the ClIa,Iarambeau
water tank was completely covered by
the piles of snow. More suffering ex-
lists, perhaps. in this valley than IN any
other part of the country adjacent to
this road. and families living within
reaching distance are doubling up.
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