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This list shows four cities with over ,00O,O eco inhabitants, counting New York and Brooklyn separately: three with from 5OO,OO0 to 6OO,O0O, five with 30O,C coo, ten with 100000 to 100000 The east leads with 7,675.2 .291 inhabitants in New York. Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburg, | Washington. Newark, Jersey City, Providence, Rochester and Allegheny. The middle west has Chicago. St. Lou is. Cleveland, Cincinnati. Milwaukee, l Detroit, Kansas City. St. Paul and To- ledo, with a total of 1898, 7O3. The far west has San Francisco and Denver with a population of 476,641, and the south has New Orleans and Louisville with 491. .S35. New York Lads. with New York and Brooklyn. Buffalo and Rochester; Pennsylvania is second, with Philadelphia. Pittshurg and Ale gheny: Illinois is third. with Chicago: Ohio is fourth. with CIcvelani Cincin- natl. Toledo and Columbus. and Miss u- ri is fifth, wi,h St. Louis and Kansas City.
 When congress takes up the question of reapportionm mt of representatives it will be brought face to face with tho problem of increasing the number of representatives or Of the ratio of repre- sentatives. Already the hous. has G57 members and is an unwieldy body. The basis f repre- sentation is at pres ent one member for 173.OOO constituents. Should this ratio be maintained there will be added to the membership of the next house fifty-six members. making the total membership 413. Aside from the difficulty of doing business in a body of such proportions. there will be the greatest difficulty in seating fifty six more members in the present cham Der. There is room for a handful more than now sit in the chamber. but it will be impossible to ad1 fifty seats, with q skS. without taking up all the space and leaving no room for passage behind the railing. As each member is enti- tied to 5000 year salary. $1.2OO for % clerk and S250 for his stationery and mileage. the addition Of fifty-siX mem bers would increase the expenses of the house about S35O coo per annum. to say nothing of the additional cost of car rying their franked matter in the mails
 On the other hand, to increase the ratio Of representation to 200, O00 which would leave the membership about 366. or almost the present figures. might en- CdnScf the representation of some states in the house and W uld certain ly shift the lines of some congress dis trirts SO as in many cases 10 throw tive members of the present house in the same district. It has always been the custom to fix the ratio of repre- csenta- tinn s3 as not 70 reduce the r. presenta- tion f any state. Another serious question in connection with the house is the reducing of the representatives of those southern states which have disfranchis q the negroes. Thr census returns will show the number of male inhabitants of voting age, and cnmpar- ison with the electi n turns will form the basis for an estimate of the number of voters disfranchised.
 The census bureau reports the popu- lation of Evansville Indiana. at 57,007 for 1900. I. was 5O,756 in 1890, show ing an increase of S,251, or 1926 per cent.
 The figures for Detroit, Wilkes Barre and Allentown were announced this af- ternoon as follows:
 Detroit-l9OO, 2S5.7O4; 1890, 2O5, SIG: in crease, 79.S29 or 3S,77 per cent. Popu-