The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-11

tiCuittfly aDOuJ cDanSe IN inc
Congressional districts, there is a
feeling among half dozen or more
members 10 saw the First district
up so as to make it largely Repub-
lican and the other three solidly
Democratic. But the weight of
opinion is largely against such an
arrangement and it is doubtful il it
be proposed.
The thirteen Senatorial districts
are formed us follows, on basis OF
5s,496 population:
First-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio.
Second-Marshall, Marion, Wet
eel.
Third-Tylor, Doddrige, Richie
and Harrison.
Fourth-Pleasants, Wood, Writ,
Calhoun, Gilmer.
Fifth-Jackson, Roane, Mason.
Sixth-Cabell, Wayne, Putnam.
Seventh-Logan, Lincoln, Wy
oming, Mcdowell, Mercer, Raleigh.
Eighth---Greenbrier, Monroe,
Summers, Fuyetto, Pocahontas.
Ninth-Kanawha, Clay, Nicho-
las, Boone.
Tenth-Braxton, Webster, Lewis,
Upshur, Barbour.
acknowledgements, Preston,
Taylor.
TweIvth---Ra Randolph, Hardy,
Grant, Mineral, Pendlcton, Tucker.
Hampshire, Berkeley,
Morgan, jefferson.
Counties entitled to Delegates are;
Barbour, 1; Berkeley, 1, plus
$685., Delegate district; Boone, /;
Braxton, 1; 'Cabell, 2; Calhoun, /;
Doddridge, /; Fayette, l, plus 1874,
Delegate district; Gilmer, /; Green
brier, l, plus G,31s, Delegate district;
Hampshire, /; Harrison, ?; Jackson.
1. plus 7,2SS, Delegate district; JEFF.
ferson, l, plus 1887, Delegate dis
trict; Kanawha, 4; Lewis, l; Lin
coin, 2; Logan, l; Marion, 2; NJ r
shall, l, plus 9,O42, Delegate district;
Mason, ?; Mercer, l; Mineral, 1;
Monongalia, 1, plus 5000, Delegate
district; Monroe, /; Ohio, 4; Pendle-
ton, /; Peasants, /; Preston, 2;
Putnam, l; Raleigh, l; Randolph, !;
Ritchie, l; Roane, l, plus 3,6ls.
Delegate district; Summers, /; Tay-
lor, l; Tyler, 1; Upshur, l; Wayne,
2; Wetzel, /, plus 5,415, Delegate
district; Writ, 1; Wood, 2, plus 5, l69;
Delegate district.
Delegate districts are as follows:
Hancock and Brooke /; Marshall and
Wetzel, /; jackson and Roane, /;
Nicholas and Clay, /; Wyoming and
Mcdowell, /; Fayette and Greebrier,
l; Pocahontas and Webster, l;
Hardy, Grant and Tucker, 2, Nor
gan, Berkeley and Jefferson, 1.
This arrangement, we understand,
will give twenty seven Republicans
and thirty eight Democrats in the
House, and sixteen Democrats aud
ten Republicans in the Senate.
Taking the basis of representa-
ton, 1,G94, and dividing it into the
population of each county, reject
ing fractions, each county is first
assigned all the delegates to which
it is thus entitled
The other counties having the
number of inhabitants nearest the
ratio are then assigned delegates
down to 1000 Then the counties
having the largest remainder over
are assigned delegates, mainly by
grouping those together having
large remaindcrs, SO as to give an
equitable representation. In some
counties this is impossible, because
no contiguous counties haye an ex-
cess beyond one delegate ratio.
Some counties - for instance,
Boone and Pendleton-area assigned
delegates because in the case of
Boone no contiguous county except
Kanawha has an excess, and this is
assigned delegate. Pendleton and
Grant cannot be placed together
without separating Tucker and
Hardy, neither of which is entitled
to delegate; hence Pendleton is
given n delegate, as it now has one,
and Tucker, Grant and Hardy are
thrown together and given two del
egates. Randolph, which was for
merly with Tucker, is not entitled
to a delegate.
On a basis of 65 members this ar
rangement is believed to be as fair
as can be made, as it gives every
substantial portion of excess in each
county representations the House.
The following counties lose a
member each, Berkeley, jackson,
Jefferson, Marshall, Greenbrier,
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