The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-09-28

1901. under which the legislature has
Jus; revised the d.s,SIc; boundaries, In.
creased II to sixteen giving the big
Southern commonweal;a the mia )arS.
est vote in congress ana in the electoral
college,
Two decades ago Texas ranked in
political power on an equality with the
s;a.es Of Iowa, Kentucky ana Michigan,
and yielded place 20 the states " Mas
sachuse,ts, Indiana and Missouri ny
'lSsO she had drawn away from the arst
three commonweal,hs and risen to an
equality with Massachusetts, and Ipdi-
ana, BY the newes, apportionmen; she
has dis,aneed the latter TWO states ana
also oyertakea ana passed Missouri,
giving precedence now in political inn
portanee 10 only four ou;ranking rivals
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and
ohlo.
But one other sta,S--Illino,s--oan
show an equal measure Of political ad-
vancement in the last twenty years
The vote Of Illinois in the house has
risen from twenty in The eighties 70 /
twenty-five now. Two states have I
gained four votes In the same period |
Pennsylvania and Minnesota, Taree |
Others have gained three vo;es-New /
Yort New Jersey and Nebraska-tha las, I
named gaining all three on the census |
of 1880 and The frs, named gaining all /
three on the census Of 1900. Seven
states have gained two vo;es
from 1850 to lsoO-Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri.
Washington ana Wisconsin.
Some curious and interesting varia-
tons are shown in he growth in poliyi-
cal power OF the various sections u the
Union. New England in twenty years
has gained three votes In the house and
in the electoral college. Massachusetts,
getting two OF them and Connecticut
o,a pL-a. - - Nffasr ..,... ~ l
York. New Jersey and Pennsylyanla-
have gained ten votes. New Jerseys
advancemen;-three votes
being creates, and New Yorks-three
yotes-being least In what was so
long known politically as the Solid
South Texas growth has quite over
shadowei that OF any other state.
and Missouri have gained two
votes apiece in twenty years and these
eight states have gained one vote apiece
West Virginia, Norm Carolina.
South Carolina, Floriii. Georgia. Ala
oamA. Mississippi and Louisiana. Mary
and. Virginia, Kentucky md Tennessee
lave made no progress. In he Md
lie West Ohio and Indiana have Ike
Wis. merely held heir own n roIlu- d
al strength through the last two de-
.ades. Illinois has leapsd ahead Of .
)hlo, having now twenty-five. lns,ead
4 twenty seats in the house Of repre-
sntatives to Ohio's twenty-o1e. Wis Z
onsin's vote has been increased by two I
nd Michgan's bv one.
Beyond the Mississippi Minnesota has :
rawn up rapidly on Iowa. Twenty @
ears ago Iowa had eleven representa-
ives to Minneso,a's five. In he next b
ouse Iowa viii have eleven rspressn- @
a,vas to Minnesota's nlna. Nebraskl's 0
rose IN 1891 from three 2
MEMBERS to six. Under the last census, d
oweyer. the states population showed z
no increase. In the further \
Vest the growing states have been
ou'h Dak5,a. Colorado, California and
Washington. Each gained a vote in the II
act NJ 1891, and again in .,
hat Of 1901 Oregon has stood still IN z
he race for twenty years, and has con- Ii
been outstrippai by South e.
'akoia, Washington and Colorado.
wen North Dakota has now drawn Up u
ven with Oregon In political power. In 81
le Increased strength that comes from
opulatlon along the nine coast and 81
.ocky mountain states have gained
K votes under the last TWO censuses. \
he Northwest, including the Dakotas
rd Kansas, have galnsd eleven votes r,
he Middle Western states are stronger II
Y eight v1tes ard me states of the ~
1w broken solid South by seventeen -
1tes The Middle states and New lr
nglanl have Increased their power by Of
Iirteen votes. a fairly equal national '
.owth is therefore shown. with the nl
70 greatest relative centers Of gain ~
commemorative az wldaLv se-a- ~