Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Democratic Caucus Decides Upon
the Measure the Majority
Will Favor.
Assembly Left Virtually as Pub
lished in the Democrat
Friday.
Composition Of the Senate Dis
tricts Political Etfect-Samp-
sons independence

The democrats are figuring for the
control of the senate four years from
now, and the apportionment bill which
they will probably put through makes
fourteen districts democratic on the
vote of 'SS, and three others are fair
fighting ground, though also thought to
have a democratic tendency:
The following are the fourteen safe
democratic districts:
Marquette, Door and KeWaunee.
Oconto and Brown.
Marathon and Wood.
Outagamie and part of Waupaca.
Wmnebago.
Manitowoc and Calumet.
Sheboygan.
Fond du Lac.
Dodge and part of Columbia.
Dane.
Washington, Ozaukee and Il part Of
Waukesha.
Jefferson and part of Waukesha.
Sank and part of Columbia.
! Langlade, Lincoln, Forest, Florence
and Shawano.
! The three which are pretty apt to
go democratic are:
Chippewa, Price, Taylor andOneida.
: The I'd. 9th and 9th wards, of MilWau-
kee.
The LIST, Sd, 7th, 18th and 18th wards
of Milwaukee.
These seventeen districts are just 4
majority of the total of SO in the state.
! The senate next January will have
a democratic majority of about ten.
There are fourteen democratic hold
over, hence it would only require the
! election of three members for the de-
| mocracy to control that body. But
! there will not be Il narrow majority.
| 1t will be as stated before, reach ut
least 10, and hence the republicans III
order to have majority on joint bal
i The apportionment bill which the
democratic members intend to put
though is conceded by democrats to
give the republicans 81 to So members,
! while republicans make no greater
! claims. The outlook is therefore
squally for republican senatorial AS
pirants.
! The reliably republican districts are
! the following twelve:
Douglas, Bayfield,, Ashland, Sawyer,
/ Wasl,burn, Burnett.
Polk, st. CroiX, Pierce.
Barron, Dunn, Pepin, Buffalo.
/ Trempaaleau, Lacrosse.
| Jackson, Monroe, Vernon.
Juneau, Adams, Marquette, Green
! Lake.
| Portage, Waushara, and west district
of Waupaca.
/ Crawford, Richland and north dis
tlict of Grant.
! Iowa, Lafayette and south district Of
Grant
Green, west district of Rock, and
southeast district of Dane.
WaEworth, GAINESVILLE and east district
of Rock.
| Racine and Kenosha.
There still remain three Milwaukee
districts. Republicans say they will
! get two or three of the five in that
city.
The democratic measure, which will
doubtless be pushed through, will es-
tablish senate districts rs above given,
and assembly districts substantially as
agreed upon by the apportionment com
mittee Thursday night and as published
in the Democrat Friday. In Brown
county, however, Green Bay and Eft.
Howard will be in separate districts.
There will be slight change in She
boygan i'll the interest of equality of
population and in Columbia to effect
| greater compactnesS of territory. The
only other change likely to be made
is to place the towns of MattSOn and
Larrabee in the east district and the
towns of WeyauWega and Fremont
to the west By none of these changes
is there any political significance.
The democrats of both houses held 2
lively and practical caucus last evening
and agreed on bill as outlined above
It will be introduced this morning.
| There was an interesting scene at
the meetings of the subcommittee on
apportionment yesterday afternoon
| The committee consists of Senators
Pratt and Kingston and assemblyman
Sampson and TeXtOn, democrats, and
Senator Phipps and Assemblyman Bah
cock and Dill republicans. For several
days past the democratic members had
had a proposition standing for the ac-
ceptance or rejection of the republi-
cans. IT left all the northern part of
the state as agreed on by Doc" Ander-
son and Senator Phipps with relation to
senate districts. In the map submitted
Dane county is divided, Rock gerry
wandered. and the counties from OZal-
kee to Crawford cut up and combined
in a most graceless portion. The re-
publicans finally agreed to accept the
proposition. bad as it was, when the
majority, Assemblyman Sampson eX-
Guided, declined to carry out the pro
gram. Mr.. Sampson declared with
emphasis that the proposition had been
made honestly and partly accepted and
that it was child's play to do otherwise
than live up to the agreement made
He theneupon, after some exciting de
bate, voted with the republicans, thus
adopting the proposition. When these
four made their report to the general
committee that body postponed action,
but the democratic members in caucus
adopted the bill Of which the political
character and general composition is
outlined above
Final adjournment will probably oc,
cur about Thursday
SHORT SESSION.
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