The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-18

providing that the House shall be COM
posed of s19 members. Rejected-yeas
90, nays 148.
The bill then passed without discussion.
! It is as follows:
Be 1T enacted etc., That after the third of
March, 1882, the House of Representatives
shall be composed of 325 members, to be
apportioned among the several States as
follows:
Alabama eight, Arkansas FIVE California
six, Colorado one. Connecticut four, Della
| ware one, Florida two, Georgia ten, Hi
neis twenty, Indiana thirteen, Iowa eleven,
Kansas seven, Kentucky eleven, Louisiana
six, Maine four, Maryland six, Massachu-
| setts twelve, Michigan eleven, Minnesota
five, Mississippi seven, Missouri fourteen
Nebraska three, Nevada one New Hamp-
shire two,, New Jersey seven, New York
thirty four, North Carolina nine, Ohio
twenty-one, Oregon one, Pennsylvania
twenty. eight. Rhode Island two, South
Carolina seven, Tennessee ten, Texas
eleven. Vermont two, Virginia ten, West
Virginia four, Wisconsin nine.
SECTION 1. That whenever new state
Is admitted into the Union the Representa-
tive or Representatives assigned it shall
be in addition to the number of, 1926.
Sec. 3. That in each State entitled
under this apportionment number to which
such State may be entitled in the Forty
eighth and each subsequent Congress, shall
be elected by districts composed of con
tiguous territory and containing as near as
practicable an equal number of inhabitants,
and equal in number to the representatives
to which such State may be entitled in
Congress, no one district electing more
than one representative, provided. that
unless the Legislature of such State shall
otherwise provide before the election of
such representatives shall take place as pro-
vided by law, where no change shall be
hereby made in the representation of q
State the Representatives thereof to the
Fortyeighth Congress shall be elected
therein as now provided by law. If the
number as hereby provided for shall be
larger than it was before this change, then
an additional Representative or Represen-
tatives allowed to said State under this ap-
portionment, may be elected by such State
at large, and other Representatives which
such State is entitled by districts as now
prescribed by law in such State; and if the
number hereby provided for shall in any
State be less than it was before the change
hereby made, then the whole number to
which such State is hereby provided fer
shall be elected at large, unless the Legis
latures of such States have provided or
shall otherwise provide before the time
fixed by law for the next election of Rep
resentatives therein.
SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
Memorials against the treatment of Jews
in Russia and polygamy in Utah were pre-
sented.
A night session was ordered for Monday
instead of Tuesday.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole (Mr. Horr of Michigan in the
chair) upon private claims.
Mr.. Valentine, of Nebraska, reported
the agricultural appropriation bill of the
Committee of the Whole
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the president in further com
pliance with the House resolution calling
for the correspondence respecting the war
on the Pacific coast, transmitting the re-
port of the Secretary Of State and accom-
panying documents. Referred. Also a
letter from the Secretary of War trans
mitting the report of the Mississippi river
commission. Referred The House then
(after several roll callsl adjourned until to-
morrew.