The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
COL. JOHN SUGGESTS PLAN ID FORM NEW CONGRESS DISTRICT Would Have Dallas County as Center of New Tenth
 District SPLIT BLOODY SEVENTH MAKING IT MORE SAFE Jefferson County Would Comprise One District and Col. John Claims His Plan Would Make Districts
 More Compact

Since the announcement of Alabama population and Congressman Underwood 8 assurance that the state has every chance to secure another representative in Congress many people have been fig uring on the division of counties into ten congressional districts which duty would fall upon the state legislature.
 Among those who have figured 1t out is Col. Will Sam John, who spent some time studying the situation, and believes he has arrived at the most just ar engagement, at the same time caring for the interests of democracy, and splitting n. the Seventh district, which so long has endangered democratic victory
 In discussing his figures Colonel John Said:
 Tt will be seen that If the arrangement is enacted Into law all of the present in cumbents will remain in their own dis tricts and retain the same numbers of their districts as they now have: that every one of the ten largest cities of the state is placed in a district which Is as near one-tenth of the whole population of the state as can be made, and at the same time not divide any county and have the districts composed of contiguous counties.
 'erhe Tenth district, as proposed, will be without a congressman till the next elevation after the reapportionment by Congress.
 Should Alabama not gain a congressman Jefferson county will still have so near one-ninth of the population as to entite her to 6 congressman without including any other county in this district"
 Colonel Johns division leaves the First district exactly as it is. He takes Pike out of the Second without adding any others. Pike Is added to the Third dis trict, while Lee and Russell are dropped and added to the Fifth The Fourth no
 longer stretches from one end of the state to the other. Chiffon and Dallas are dropped, while Clay and Coosa are added from the Fifth, St. Clair and Cherokee from the Seventh. The Fifth loses Clay and Coosa to the Fourth, Autauga and Lowndes to the Tenth, and Is given Lee and Russell from the Third. The sixth remains the same as at present, with the single loss of Marion county to the Eighth district
 Changes Suggested The famous Bloody Seventh retains Etowah, Cullman, Marshall and DeKalh, annexing Jackson and Morgan from the Eighth and Blount from the Ninth dis tricts. Thus Winston and Cullman and St. Clair, the three close counties in the old Seventh. are all separated, each going into a different district. The Eighth annexes Franklin and Win ston from the Seventh. Marion from the Sixth and loses Morgan and Jackson to the Seventh
 The Ninth is Jefferson county, alone. while the new district, the Tenth, Is com posed of Chiffon and Dallas from the Fourth. Autauga and Lowndes from the Fifth, Perry and Bibb from the Ninth and Wilcox from the Second district. Colonel John places the new district Just in the center of the state. His district lines will be much more even, while no district will be stretched in a string in every direction, all being compactly grouped together. By putting Blount in the Seventh district, Melville Drennen would become an aspirant against John l.. Burnett. The new Tenth would be live proposition with plenty of congress sional material from Dallas. The whole situation is interesting, and the cause of no little speculation. Here are Colonel Johns figures: