The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-02-01
NINE DISTRICTS.
Senator Daugher'y Presents a
ReappOrtionment Bill.
Cuts the Secoud District Down TO Twelve
Countless. Districts are Compact
and We're Republican in
'9S and 1900.

St. Paul, Jan. 80. -Reapportion
ment promises to be the overshadow'
ing matter of business for the considera
ton of the state legislature during the
next few weeks. With the return of
the members yesterday the subject was
taken up anew in view of the probable
completion of the joint committee of 81
members today. The drift of talk is
in favor of an equitable plan for re-
districting which shall meet the spirit
of the law and yet not do violence to
the ambitions and claims of congress
men, present and future.
Senator Daugherty of Duluth, has
drafted plan which will be presented
to the members for their considera-
ton, and which can be synopsized as
follows:
First Distri ct-The counties of
Steele, Dodge, Fillmore, Houston,
Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona,
the same as the present first with the
exception of Waseca. These COUNT es
have an aggregate population of 1876, =
404, and in 1898 gave Republican
majority of 6, 759 and in 1900 of 4, :
SAT, Winona shifting from Republi-
can majority of 1877 in 1898 to a Demo
cratic majority of 1, 406 in 1900
Second District-The counties of
Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood
Faribault. jackson, Martin, Murray,
Mobiles, Pipestone, Rock, Watonwan,
and Waseca, added from the old first.
The aggregate population of these
counties is 1S9, 934, and the Republi
can majority in 1898 was 4, S15, and in
1900, 6, 400. The counties of Nicollet.
Redwood, Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow
Medicine, Lac qui Parle, and Chip
pewa are detached from the present
second district.
Third District-The counties of Car
yer, Dakota, Goodhue, LIE Sueur, Nc
Leod, Rice Scott, Sibley, and Nicollet,
new, with an aggregate population
of 1873, 106, and a Republican majority
of 4, $40 in 1898, and of 8, 209 in 1900,
Renville and Meeker are detached
from the present Third.
Fourth District-The counties of
Ramsey and Washington, with popu-
lation of 1877, 362, and a Republican
VI -, w. III 1910 dlu lCOO lC-
spectively. The counties of Chisago,
Isanti and Kanabec are set off.
Fifth District-Hennepin county,
with 22S, $40 population, and Re-
publican majority of 8, $40 in 1898 and
10, 400 i n 1900.
Sixth District-The counties of
Anoka, Benton, Chisago. Isanti,
Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns,
Todd and Wright, aggregating popu-
lation of 1879, 9OS, and giving Repub-
lican majority of 1905 in 1898 and 3,
S41 in 1900. This is an entirely new
district made up of parts of the pre-
sent sixth, third and fifth.
Seventh District-The counties OF
Big Stone, Chippewa, Grant, Randi,
yohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon,
Pope, Redwood, Renville, Stevens,
Swift, Traverse, and Yellow Medi,
cine, aggregating 1874, 357 population
and having a Republican majority in
1898 of 4, S37 and in 1900 of 1870. This
| is essentially new district, being
composed of half the counties of the
old seventh, including Congressman
Eddy's home county, and parts of the
present second and third
Eighth District-The counties OF
Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Cook,
! Grow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, Kama
bee, Lake. Mile Laos, Pine, st.
Louis, and Wadena, aggregating 1S1,
oil in population, and having in 1895
Republican majority of 993 and in
1900 of 1850. This is largely the pre-
sent sixth district, with one county
added from the fifth and less those
counties grouped about Stearns in the
new sixth.
Ninth District counties of
Becker, Clay, Douglas, Kittson, Mar
shall, Norman, Otter Tail, Polk, Red
Lake, Roseau, and Wilkin, aggregat-
ing 1876, $50 in population, and having
a Republican majority in 1898 of 1, :
Ais and in 1900 of 1874. This district
is made up of the counties taken GU
of the present seventh district.
Senator Somerville is also preparing
plan which will differ materially
from the above arrangement, and will
throw certain of the present congress-
men into the same district While as
the discussion progresses other sugges-
tions will doubtless take shape.