The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-06
CONGRESSIONAL CHANGES.
win Form the Twelfth District and
Luzcrnc tho Thirteenth.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Harrisburg, May 5.-The congressional
apportionment bill agreed upon by the
house committee divides the state into
thirty districts, an increase or TWO. one
of these Is given to Philadelphia and the
other TO Allegheny county. Their Increase
in population since the apportionment Of
1887 cntitle them to one congressman each.
Besides, neither OF these counties has been
given n member of congress-at-large, the
four gentlemen elected to this oilice IN
consequence of no re-apportionment be-
ing made having been residents of Mer-
Ger. Carbon Susquehanna and Westmore-
land. In the last congress the Republic
ans had IS district congressman and at
large, or 20 in all, and the Democrats TO-.
The Pennsylvania delegation in the Fifty
fourth congress will stand Republicans,
rs; Democrats, g Philadelphia will have
siS districts under the new apportionment.
Five of these are surely Republican,; the
other is probably Democratic. The First
district will be composed of the First,
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirtleth
and Thirty-sixth wards; the Second OF the
Second. Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Sew
enth, Eighth. Ninth and Tenth wards;
the Third district of the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth Fif-
teenth and Twenty-ninth wards: the
Fourth district of the Sixteenth. Seven
teenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, Thirty-sec-
ond, Thirty-third and Thirty-seventh
wards; the Fifth district of the Nine
teenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth. Thir-
ty-first and Thirty-fifth wards; the Sixth
district of the Twenty-iirst, Twenty-sec-
ond, Twenty-fourth, Twenty eighth and
Thirty-fourth wards.
Lackawannh Mndc the Twolfth.
The Seventh district, Chester and Della
En IN ri ty
in 1892, and nearly 11,OOO last fall. The
Eighth. Montgomery and Berks, has hith-
erto been debatable. In 1892 Wanger, Re-
publican, had $50 majority. Last fall he
had 4,S26. The Ninth, Northampton, Mon
roe, Carbon and Pike, has always been
strongly Democratic. The Tenth, Berks
and Lehigh, is known as the Democratic
Gibraltar" IT gave Erdman 1O,95S two
years ago, but he only got 1.94S in 1894.
Lancaster county forms the Eleventh dis
trct. The Republican majority runs from
5000 to 1000.
The Twelfth district is Lackawanna. 1t
is now securely Republican. Luzerne, the
Thirteenth. is also regarded as permanent
ly anchored in the Republican column. The
Fourteenth district Is Schuylklll; Reilly,
Democrat represented it two consecutive
terms, having 1901 majority in 1892. Last
year cx-Congressman Brumm, Repub-
lcan, defeated him by 2,229 votes. The
three anthracite districts have heretofore
been doubtful. The Republicans now
claim them as safe.
The Fifteenth district, Dauphin. Perry
and Lebanon; the Sixteenth, Bradford,
Snsquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming, and
the Seventeenth, Tioga, Potter. Lycoming
and Clinton, are surely Republican. The
Eighteenth, Northumberland, Columbia,
Montour and Sullivan, gave 5,3O3 Demo-
cratic majority in 1892. Singerly carried 1t
last fall by G64 votes. but Kulp, Repub-
lcan, had S9i majority over ex-senator
Buckalew. The district is now regarded
as doubtful. The Nineteenth, Hunting
don, Miffin, Juniata, Snyder, Union,
Franklin and Fulton. is soldly Repub-
lican. The Democrats have always car
ried the Twentieth, York, Cumberland and
Adams, until last November, when Stable,
Republican, turned the Democratic ma
jorty of 1892 into Republican majority
of 2,SSi. Hastings only carried 1t by II
votes.