Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-01-13
FACTS ABOUT THE WORLDS
LEGISLATIVE BODIES

MONS HAS 67O MEMBERS - FIFTY
NINE JOURNALISTS IN CHAMBER OF
ES-AGRICULTURALR REPRE-
SFNTATION.
or the 1856 representatives who meet
in the last session of the Fifty eighth
congress. POS are Republicans, 176 are
Democrats and two are Union Labor
Democrats. Of the ninety members
of the senate fifty seven are Republi.
cans and thirty three Democrats.
The next, or Fifty ninth congress,
which will not meet until the first
Monday of December, 1905. unless the
president calls an extra session, will
have much larger Republican majori-
ty in the house.
At the beginning of this government
there was one congressman to every
30. 900 of population, and the total num-
ber of representatives in the First con.
gress in 1889 was sixty-tive. u The ap
portionment of population for each re-
pres sentative in congress steadily in
creased until at the present Tins there
is one representative for every 1914, 1872
Inhabitants.
At the first census in 1890 the total
population of the United States was
1928, PA. Thereswere los representa-
tives, the apportionment being $4,000.
The second census, 1900, population,
5.30S. .483 apportionment, $4,000; re-
presentatiYes, 141 third census. 1910,
population. 1888, ,8s1 apportionment'
35, 900; representatives, l8l, fourth cen.
sus, 1920, population, 1888. .S22 ; appor'
tionment, 40 900 representatives, 2l3
fifth census, 1880, population, 1856,
020; apportionment, 47,7O0; repre-
sentatives, 240 sixth census, 1840.
population, II ,069, ,453 ;apporrionment,
70,6S0; representatives, 223 seventh
census. 1850, population, %, ,S76 |
arportionment, SO, ,423 represenata-
tives. 233 eighth census, 1860, popula- J
tion, 81, 443, ,321, ; apportionment, 49,
1870, population, 3S. .55S,3 ;apportion-
ment, 131 AS; representatives, 1893;
tenth census, 1880, population, SO ,155,-
1873, apportionment, 51,911; repre-
sentatives 325 eleventh census, 1890,
population, 81, ,622s25O; apportionment,
17S, 9O1 representatives, 1856; twelfth
census, 1900, population, IA ,565. .9O6 ap
portionment, 1914, 1872; representatives.
1856.
HOUsE. OF COMMONS.
With population of little more
than one-half of the United States
Great Britain's house of commons has
almost doubled the number of me m
Eers of our house of representatives.
The house of commons has $40 mem
bers against 1856 in the house of repre-
sentatives. The French chamber of
deputies has 5S4 members. 1t is IN.
teresting to see how the members of
these. high legislative. bodies in the
three countries named are apportioned
among the trades.and professions.
Agricultural interests are represent
ed in the house of commons by about
l41 members in the chamber. of de.
puties by seventy and in the house of
representatives by ten farmers and
seven others, VINO combine farming
with some other occupation.
The law claims 2s6. representatives
in our house, 139 in the French cham.
ber and 129 in 1.-The British commons.
There are sixty-three congressman
engaged in mercantile pursuits. The
number Of French deputies who come
under the head of manufacturing and
like professions is also SO, while the
same calling claims 113 of the British
members of parliament.
There are fifty-nine journalists Or
newspaper men in the chamber of de.
puties fortyfour in the British house
of commons, and only ten in our house
of representatives. The army and the
navy are practically unrepresented in
the lower French house, those profes
sions claiming about five members
sixty. nine congressman have served
in the army, but of these few, if any,
are professional soldiers. In the house
of commons, fifty-nine members have
held commissions in the service.
| PHYSICIANS ARE IMPORTANT
Physicians. surgeons and chemists
play far larger part in the public
life of France than of England or of
the United States. Fifty-three of this
class are to be found among the French
deputies; not more than eight among
the British commoners, and only one
in our house of representatives. An.
other class, which, by comparison, pre-.
dominates in the French chamber ls
the official class, which numbers nine.
ty five ; in the house of commons, the
civil service, including diplomacy, is
represented by only fourteen members
J while in our house of representatives
! Il
found out is not represented at all.
In the house of commons there are
twenty-eight members connected with
the coal and iron trades, either as work
ing miners or as masters and employ.
ers; there are eight engineers, four
contractors, twenty-three directors of
companies, seventeen brewers and dis
tilIers, nineteen bankers, fifteen Sec
retaries or salaried represe tatiyes of
various trades unions, nine professors
or school teachers, eleven connected
with stock exchanges; three hotel pro-
! prietors, one bookseller, two archi-
tects, two millers, three commission
laoents one printer one pilot and