Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-11-25
THE NEW ApPoRTiONMENr.

Sedgwick county under the new appor:ion-
ment Will be entitled 70 senator and three
representatives. al the very lowest calculation
Thirty-one thousand and n fraction will be the
basis Of population 10 each senator. Sedgwick
will hsye seven thousand excess. One humid
red and twenty-five representatives divided
among .-GS, i3s people would made average
districts Of shout ten Thousand This would
give Sedgwick close on to four representatives
~edgwick ought TO have either two senators
and two Tepresen tatiyes or one senator and
four Representatives. The proper figuring will
SECURE one or two other ichits
Eagle
The editor of the EAGLE seems TO be CD
livious 10 the fact that the legislature ap-
portionmert Of 1886 must be based on ter.
ritory as well as on population, and that, a:
there viii be, ere the Legislature convenes
eighty-six counties. there must needs be one
representatives from each of these counties
with reference to population, and to the
makeup OF senatorial districts. In view o.
the fact that a supreme court decision make:
125 members as the maximum number Of
the house OF representatives, it cannot savor
OF wisdom for the legislature TO make more
than 100 representative districts, for during
the last five wears there have been six coun'
ties organized, and il is morally certain that
there will be ut least FIVE more between 1885,
and 1891
The above IS followed by a table which
gives Leavenwor.h and Shawnee three rep
resen;atives each and Sedgwick but two.
The table gives Sedgwick county but &c, 522
population, when the sworn returns shows
that she has about one thousand more, or
SAL. The Commonwealth tables gives
three representatives in several instances to
population of less than thirty thousand
but says Sedgwiek with 37,400 must be
awarded only two. So also Is to senator's
It's poor rule, nu unique estimate, and
won't work. The legislature will have to
even the matter up better than the Com
nlonwealth has done. That papers appor-
tionulent in three instances, give districts OF
two counties each, with a combined popula-
ton OF less than Sedgwick, four representa-
tiycs That will never work. After
each county is given one representative
the surplusage must be divided up accordt
ing 10 population. Eve other senatorial
districts each with total population of less
than that of Sedgwick are given five repre-
sentatives each still Sedgwick must have bu-
two. One senatorial district-number 80
with population combined that exceeds
Sedgwick by only 1000, is given eight rep
resentatives, or one representative 10 each
five thousand inhabitants, while IN Sedg-
wick each representative district must con-
tain twenty thousand people. 1t may be
tina. in the estimation Of the Commonwealth
the people Of Sedgwick don't count for so
much as those of some other counties, if SO
that is another mistake.
Notice is given here, and now that Scdg-
wick is entitled TO one senator and three
representatives,. or two senators and two
representatives,, and We shall ask a. much.
If an enumeration could be taken to-day,
Sedgwick county would show bigger pop
ulation than Shawnee, and probably larger
than Leavenworth But, however, that
may be, the returns show that we had over
$1,000 last spring, and they will haye to be
needed.