The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-03-06

Redwood 6Ountu will be In 1t,
ii the Legislators
Stand Pat.
Representative Larson forms
a combination to Pre-
vent a Change.
Special to THE GAZETTE.

Special to THE GAZETTE.
ST. PAUL, MINI, March 9th
Thanks to the untiring efforts OF
Representative Larson of Redwood
county, Redwood county is to be
taken from the place given it by the
joint committee on reapportionment,
and retain its old place in the Sec
ond congressional district.
The report of the joint committee
on reapportionment was made Mon
day morning. It placed Redwood
in the new Seventh district. For
twenty-four hours prior to the sub
mission of the report, Mr.. Larson
worked earnestly among the mem
bers of the house from all over the
State, and succeeded in forming one
OF the strongest oppositions to the
report of the joint committee that
has ever been formed in the house,
and when the bill was presented
yesterday morning and made a
special order for next Friday morn
ing, the friends of the measure con-
cluded that it would be wise, in
order to insure the passage OF the
bill, to make overtures to Mr.. Lar.
son whereby Redwood county would
be retained in the Second district.
The proposition made to Mr.. Lar.
son is that inlienof his ceasing his
opposition to the bill reported out
by the joint committee on reappor,
stionment, Red wood county would
be retained in the Second district.
Waseca county, which was taken
from the First district by the reap
portionment committee and placed
in the Second district, is to be rele-
gated to the First district, which is
to remain precisely as it is at the
present time.
The new Second district, as pro-
posed by Mr.. Larson and the reap
portionment committee, will leave
the district as it is with the excep-
tion that Nicollet county will be
pushed into the Third, Lyon, Lin
coin, Yellow Medicine, Lac qui
Parle and Chippewa will be pushed
into the new Seventh. The repre-
sentatives from Lyon and Lincoln
counties, while desirous that their
counties should remain in the Sec
ond district, were reluctant in
leading any opposition to their be-
| ing placed in the Seventh, and they
are apparently satisfied with their
new location.
AS previously stated, the bill will
come up as special order next
| Friday morning. At that time. if
the present agreement is carried
out, Mr.. Anderson, chairman Of the
| joint committee, who has shown a
strong friendship for Red wood coun-
tY Since the work of reapportion-
inert commenced, will offer an
amendment to the bill, keeping Red
wood county in the Second district,
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and taking Waseca county therefrom
and returning it to the First. This
will be the only amendment that
viii be favored by the members of
the joint committee on reapportion-
ment and the friends Of the bill.
| While there will be many other
amendments offered, all of them,
lowing to the strong combination,
will undoubtedly be voted down.
The proposition the members of
! IHennepin county for the division of
that county will probably meet with
strong favor, but is not likely to
develop sufficient strength to carry
it through.
The fact that Mr.. Larson has sue
ceeded in keeping Redwood county.
IN the Second district, and being
the only member outside Of the re
apportionment combination to sue
lcessfully carry through an amend