The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-29
Under the One Taken
Year, State Must Be
Reapportioned.
CONSTITUTION OF STATE 4.
MAKES 1T MANDATI
Under the Constitution,
Lake County Gets 0ne-Thi
Of Legislative Body.

Under the constitution of Utah
legislature, during its coming seSu'
must rcapportion the state in confo
ity TO the census of 1910. Legi,
lures In the pnst have paid LITTLE
gard to the state constitution, but h
understood that this time the Ias;,
ture must conform to this provision
the constitution. Otherwise there
be war.
The apportionmeut of the stata
present is the same AZ TINT al the 4;
the state constitution was adopted
Teen years ago. The constitution
Fldcd Tor state census in 1{
and every ten years thereafter. and
reapportlonment of the Legislative
tricts following each federal or "A
enumeration. The section of the
stItution which the state legislst,,
have thus far failed 10 observe,
which the legislature Of 1911 will 81
to- observe, is ms follows 80
Here Is the Law.
The Legislature shall provide hyS
Tor an enumeration OF the Inhabitant<
the state, A. d. 1905. and every n
year thereafter, and at the session +
following such enumeration and also
the session next following an entiru<
ton made by the authority of the I'm
states shall revise and adjust Tho
portionUeDt for senators and repre-
tatiVes on the basls OF such enunaer4I
N fS, ? t.,n H. H. -.
No legislation relative to such
portionmcnt and redistrictiug Of 4
state has ever been enacted. Il
agreed that the present apportiourn,
which may have been approximai
correct in 1895, is decidedly -unj
now. The constitution provides 4
the number of senators shall never
coed thirty, and that the numbexi
representatives shall never be eYea
than three times the number OF 81
tors.
What Salt Lake Should Have.
The population at the time 0f
adoption of the constitution was \
than 250,000, aud the populationI
Salt Lake county was only about d
fifth of that of the state. The pre-
population of the state is approxim1
ly $4,000, and the population Of &
Lake county is nearly one-third Of
state. If the same ratio is used
WAS used at the time the const|
tion was framed, the Legislatures of
future will consist of 68 reprcser
tives and 81 senators, and Of "a
Salt Lake will be entitled to 22 reT
sentatives and 0 senator's. 1t is d
able that larger unit will be ul
which will reduce the number of n,
bers in the legislature, but which .h|
ever, would not alter the proportiou
representation from Salt Lake ooiIr
No matter what unit is used. Salt u
county is still entitled to one third
the membership Of the state Iegislafu
Under the constitution the apportI|
ment only provides for counties d
groups of counties as Legislative
trlcts. However, it provides that Ot|
legislative districts, consisting of %
of counties, may he formed where
population is sufficient to warn
the selection of two or more represen
tiyes from the counties affected.
One Plan Proposed. ~
One Of the plans for the reapporti
ment to be considered by the II
legislature will be for separate lei
lative districts, Under this plan sI
legislative district will elect but
representative, while groups of two
three representative districts shall q
stitute each senatorial district. ~
every section Of each county VII
the population is large enough win
assured of individual representation.
the legislature. This IL the plan Th!
is followed in almost every other st'
in the union, -