Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-11-28
Madison, November rs.

bill which has been prepared by a. }.
Turner, Of Portage, secretary OF the
legislative committee, does not seem
10 meet with, by any means, the unan-
imous support of the leading republic
ans of the state. Indeed it was quite
thoroughly criticised at the session OF
the committee Monday and even 30
conservative man as Senator Spcns-
ley declared that I'm It's present form
the bill was IN many RESPECTS unSatl3-
factory. This was but the prelimin-
AIRY discussion upon the measure and
was occasiOned by a call of the dis
tricts which was made after rcsolu~
ton by Assomblyman Arson authorlz-
ing such II step had been adopted,
The first speaker was Senator SpenS-
ley, who said that there was a prevail
ing sentiment in the portion OF The
state which he represented against
any union Of Crawford Iowa and
Richland counties Instead, he said
he would favor district which should
be composed of RicnIaEd Iowa and
La Fayette counties A. s. Douglas,
nm attorney at Monroe, then pro-
nonnccd against union of Green and
Rock counties, and said that Green
county republicans had decided objec-
ton to being put to sleep In the same
cradle with Rock county. Assembly
man Frazer, Of Rock county, said thai
the republicans down in that county
were very well Ratisled with the pres
ent division and mad even gone SO far
M to pass resolutions iavoring 1t.
Then the La Fayctte- Grant county
senatorial combination came up for
discussion. This union has never been
favored by the republicans Of La Fay
cite county for the reason that they
feel they would DO Ovcrahadowed in
senatorial conventions by the larger
delegation, which, because of It's great
or population. would be present In the
convention from Grant county and
which under the usual course of
things would be very likely to control
tho senatorial nominations from that
district Senator Baxter expressed tho
Willingness of Grant county to be III
tho same district with LIN Fnyettc
county but said that If il would be in
tho interest of harmony that II be
Joined to Crawford instead of La Fay
cite county, the residents Of Grant
county would be equally well Rnlis-
fled with the now arrangement
Senator McGillivray, of Black River
Falls, came to tho front with what
was practically n new scheme of ap'
portlonmont He said he appreciated
tho earnest work which had been done
by Secretary Turner In behalf Of the
new apportionmont and felt that he
had divided tho state on ne nearly an
equitable arrangement AZ any ono
man could. Mr.. McGtllivray, however,
said that he thought n now apportion-
mcnt should be task whore Joint
minds should work and that therefore
he felt every republican was but doing
his duty when he proposed amend
menta to Mr. Turner's plan. Mr. Me
GilllvrAy then unroldof his plan for
n new apportionmcnt. He left tho
seventh, ninth twelfth, thirteenth,
fourteenth, fifteenth. sixteenth, soy
cntccnth, eighteenth, twcnty-ntnth,
thirty first, thirty-third districts as
arranged by MIR Turner aud provided
for the remainder M follows: Eighth
district, Columbia. Green Lake and
Waushnra counties; eleventh. Iowa
and Sank, nineteenth, Jackson, from
rcalenu and buffalo; twentieth, Ncr-
non, Richland and Crawford; twenty
first. Chippewa. Price and Taylor;
twenty second, Clark and Eau Claire;
twenty ~tourth, In Crosse and Monroe;
tworty-iirth. Dunn, popin and Pierce;
twenty sixth, St CroiX, Polk and Bar
ron; twenty seventh, Marquette, Ad-
ans, Juneau aud Wood, twenty
eighth, Brown and Door; thirtieth,
Mnrincttc, Florence. Forest, Lnngladc
and Oconto; thirty second, Ashland,
Lincoln, Iron, Villas and Oneida.
Tho suggestion was madc that Soma
tor McGillivray's district might I've
changed without 50 pronounced an at
tack upon Mir Turner's map and the
idea was Illuminated that Jackson coun
Is. from watch MIR. GilliNray halls
might be thrown over into the tw,nty-
fourth district with In Crosse county
Asscmblyman Ray was present from
that county and said he did rot think
the residents Of In Crosse would Oh
icct TO such n change
Asscmblyman latta did not want
Oneida and langlNdc tied up with tn
more northern counties in tho now ar
rangvmont and he was supported In
his position by others who reside in
that portion of the state. Cot l.. j
Rusk. of Chippewa county, said tina,
in some ways he considered that the
new apportionm, violated the uni;
of population rule and cited as an in.
stance Of this fact that Chippewa had
only one asscmolvman assigned to It
while Dane count, had four. The
population would be better proportion
ately represented II Dane county were
credited with only three assemblyman
and Chippewa county given two
Senator Thomas b. Mills, of SUI
perior, spoke earnestly in favor Of an