The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
Republicans Railroad Reapportonment Through Against
Very Bitter Opposition from Various Sources.
FEIG PEDDLER'S LICENSE BILL
Is Also Passed by the House Of Lords, the Country
Members Standing Together Like Trojans---
Today the Department Store Fight
Is on the Tab

| senator and three representatives, one repre-
| sentative for each ward.
Thirty-ff District-F1fth and Seventh
| wards of st. Paul, senator and two rep
| reSentatives.
Thirty sixth District-Ninth ward Of st.
Paul and all that part Of the Eighth ward
| lying north of Charles street, one senator
| and two representatives.
Thirty-seventh District-That part of the
| Eighth ward lying south Of Charles street.
| the Tenth and Eleventh wards and all that
part of Ramsey county outside of st. Paul.
one senator and two representatives.
1t added the new representatives as
follows: One each to Wabasha, Fill
more, Washington, Mcleod and
Wright counties. one to Morrison and
Crow Wing, and one to Swift and Big
Stone.
Senator Barr dfssented. He said he
felt that, It these seven representatives
were to be added at all, the districts
entitled to them under the figures were
first, Mobiles and Murray; second. Fari-
bault; third, Lincoln, Lyon and Yellow
Medicine; fourth, Redwood and Brown:
fifth, Swift and Big Stone; sixth, Nc
Leod; seventh, the Minneapolis district
represented by Senator Potter
Senator Thorpe said that after the
committee had been in session about an
hour it adjourned until O'clock When
he and Senator Smith returned at the
| appointed hour, they found that the
committee had taken advantage Of
| their absence and drawn I'D a basis
of reapportionment.
Senator Yale said that the action of
| the committee seemed to him mani
| testify unfair. 1t was singular that
three OF the new representatives were
allotted to districts which had members
or the committee, and he was not a lit
tie surprised that they had not taken
the entire seven to themselves. 1t was
| w 1rrh
things If one had the power The peo-
pie who wrecked trains had the power:
the people who burned houses and
cities in the might had the power. It
was unfair to the people of the state
and to the people Of Winona coun-
ty especially.
Senators Potter and Wyman defend
ed the plan.
Senator Reishus wanted an explana-
tion of the injustice done to the Six
| teenth district, Lincoln, Lyon and yell
low Medicine counties, with 32 900 and
only two representatives. when Fill
| more and Wright, each with less popu-
lation, had each three.
Senator Wyman said that the proof
that the committee was partisan
was that 1t had given better represen-
tatlon to many reliable anti-Republi-
can dictricts than to staunch Republl-
can districts.
Senator Ringdal figured out that on
the basis of the surplus, figuring the
representative as the basis of repre-
sentatton, and senator two, the dis
tricts with the greatest surplus of pop
ulation were as follows:
Sixteenth-Lincoln, Lyon and Yellow
Meolclne .....-.: .............-. 3, 0o5
E1ghteenth-Redwood and Brown ........7 991
Fifty-hrst-Stearns .....................7 1874
Forty -ffth-Morrison and Crow Wing. e. T. 681
Fifty-ninth-Polk ................-....