The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-04
new APPORTIONMENT BILL
CAUCUS DECIDES TO SUBSTITUTE 1T
FOR STUTEsMAN MEASURE.
1t viii he Submitted as an Amend
ment for the Statesman Bill
The Changes Made.

The Republican joint caucus last night
agreed upon a legislative apportionment
bill. which will be substituted as an amend
ment for the Statesman bill when the latter
reaches the Senate. 1t will be passed in
the Senate as a party measure, and the
amendment concurred in by the House in
the same manner. No time will be wasted
in debating the bill, it is understood, and
it will be pushed through with all possible
expedition and given the right of way over
everything else except the general appro-
priation bill.
The Statesman bill is now on third read
ing in the House. 1t was taken up sec
ond reading late yesterday afternoon and
advanced to engrossment before the DEM
ocrats realized what was going on. Ar
rangements had been made to advance the
bill under the demand for the previous
question, so that all filibustering from the
minority side would be headed off. but this
was not necessary. The Democrats were
caught unawares. The new bill would be
substituted for the Statesman bill on third
reading in the House, but it requires a
two-thirds vote, or sixty-seven votes, to
amend bill on third reading by recommit-
ting it with instructions. and the Repub-
leans have not that number OF votes. The
the House to-day.
The new bill was prepared by a subcom-
mittee from the House and Senate commit
tees on legislative apportionment, COM
posed of Representatives Statesman, Bam-
berger and Talcott and Senators Wood and
Gray. 1t makes several changes in the
present apportionment and provides for
thirty-three Republican senatorial districts
to seventeen Democratic, and sixty-four
Republican representative districts 10 thir-
ty-six Democratic. The Republicans have
at present thirty-five senator's and sixty
seven representatives. Under the bill Ma
rion county will have four senator's and a
joint with Hamilton and Hendricks, and
eight representatives and joint with Han
cock. The change made is in giving Marion
county one more senator and representa-
tive, and in shifting the joint senatorial
district. Marion at present is in a joint
senatorial district with Morgan. The new
bill throws Morgan with Putnam and Owen
in senatorial district.
The districts, both senatorial and repre-
sentative, shown in the following par
agraphs. each district getting one senator
or one representative unless otherwise in
dicated by figures in parentheses:
Senator'S
Lake and Porter; st. Joseph and Laporte;
st. Joseph; Elkhart: Lagrange and Noble;
Steuben and De Kalb Kosciusko and Mar
shall; Whitley and Huntington; Allen and
Adams; Allen; Grant, Blackford and
Wells; Grant Miami and Howard; Cass
| and Carroll; Wabash and Fulton; Jasper.
Pulaski and starke; Newton; Benton and
Parke; Montgomery and Fountain; Boone
and Clinton; Madison and Upton: Madi-
| son; Hancock and Henry; Delaware;
Wayne and Union; Randolph and Jay;
Rush, Fayette and Decatur; Johnson and
| Shelby; Marion, Hamilton and Hendricks;
Marion (D; Morgan. Putnam and Owen;
Vigo; Vigo and Clay; Franklin, Dearborn,
| Ohio and Switzerland; Jefferson, Jennings
| and Ripley; Brown, Bartholomew and Jack
son; Washington, Scott and Clark; Floyd
| and Harrison; Lawrence and Monroe; Du-
| bois, Martin and Orange; Spencer, Perry
| and Crawford; Greene and Daviess; Knox
| and Sullivan; Pike and Gibson; Wander
| burg; Vanderburg, Posey and Warrick.
Representatives
| Lake; Lake and Newton; Porter and La
| porte: Laporte: st. Joseph CO. st. Joseph
| and Starke; Elkhart (2); Lagrange, Steuben
Allen 49, MARSHALL Huntington; Whitley,
| Kosciusko and Huntington; Wabash; Mi
| ami; Wabash, Miami and Fulton; Cass;
Cass and White; Jasper and. Pulaski; Ben
| Montgomery; Tippecanoe and Montgomery;
| Clinton; Howard; Clinton, Howard and
| Carroll: Boone; Hamilton; Hamilton and
Upton; Grant CD; Grant and Blackford;
Delaware (2); Madison (9; Wells; Adams;
Jay; Randolph Henry; Wayne: Wayne and
Rush, Henry and Randolph; Shelby; Ma
| rion (S); Marion and Hancock; Hendricks;
| Putnam; Parke; Vigo C2); Vigo and YER
| million; Clay; Clay and Owen; Morgan;
| Brown; Bartholomew; Decatur. Dearborn
and Ohio; Ripley and Switzerland; Jeffer-
son; Scott and Jennings; Floyd; Clarke;
| Floyd. Washington and Clarke Jackson:
Lawrence: Martin and Orange; Harrison;
Perry and Crawford; Spencer; Knox; Da-
viess; Knox, Davess and Dubois Pike
| and Gibson; Gibson; Posey; Vanderburg
| CD; Vanderburg and Warrick.