The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-30
PROPOSAL FOR
 REDISTRICT|NC Plan Suggested in Making Five Constituencies Cuts State
 Counties up HOUSE TO BE INCREASED
Four Eastern Counties for One Divi- siOn-NeW Haven With Few
 Small Towns.

Washin gton. Dec. 30.-Propositions for the redistricting of Connecticut under the plans for the new House which Chairman Crumpacker of the House Census committee is planning, have been made here and will if adopted by the Legislss lure. make con- siderable changes in the district lines, doing away of course with a Congress man at large. Chairman Crumpack- CTS tables for the new House show what the unit of representation must be in a House composed of 390 mem berS, as at present and up to 400 mem bers. and somewhere between these two figures will come the next apportion- ment. It is generally conceded that the next House must be incr eased. and furthermore no State is willing to lose any of it's members.
 A Cornell professor has. however, figured out scheme by which 'tlhe House can be held down to 435 mem bers. and yet no State will lose any thing, and Chairman Crumpacker Is so much impressed by this idea that chances are therefore that there will be 435 members provided for by the bill. and the unit will be 211. 800 for each member. The bill will proba bly, be reported soon after Congress meets again. and it is expected it will be passed before March 4th although there may be some opposition to this plan.
 The bill will provide that each State should be redistricted as soon as prac ticable. and that each district should be compact and composed of cOntig- uous territory. Of course each State will then have to undertake the job of dividing up it's territory into dis tricts as nearly equal in population as possible, and here is where most nf fh.o {oxo cl-f, fv.<l11 ble.
 With a total population of 1114,756 for the State of Connecticut each of
 'he five new districts will have to be somewhat larger than the unit of 211. 800 of the proposed biM, and in order to make them somewhat nearly alike, it will be necessary to ignore entirely county lines. and even Sena- torial distric-s S. Even at that there probably will be two districts quite unless there is to be a general shak- ing up all around. this cannot be avoided
 In discussing this matter with Con- necticut politicians and others. it has been generally taken for granted that Fairfield county will be made into one district. This will be quite a large district. 245322 inha abitants. Hartford county too has generally been regard ed as likely to be made into one dis trict. making that a large one too with 250, ,1S2, but in order to make up the necessary population in one of the new districts it n1ight be found best to take three towns out of Hartford coun- ty. namely Bristol. Burlington and Southfngton. thus taking away from the Hartford district 21. 337. and mak- ing that district 22SS45
 The four eastern counties will have to make up one district, and at that they will barely reach the necessary unit of population. Tn size it will be nearly one-half of the entire State, but the popula ion will be only 211.71O, divided up as follows: Middlesex coun- ty. 45.637; New London county. 91.253; Holland county. 26.459. and Windhan. county. 4S361.
 This leaves two counties. New Ha- ven and Litchfield, to be divided up into two districts. and here will come the principal trouble. New Haven county has a population of 337,2S2, while Litchfield county has 70,260. To- getheT this makes only 407, 7,542. not quite enough for two districts of 211,- 800 each. Hence the suggestions tha; county. and added to the district com posed of Litchf1eld county and the Naugatuck valley. These three towns are contiguous to both New Haven and Litchfield counties.
 This district. which might be term ed the Waterbury district, would therefore be composed of the follow ing: Lftchfield county 70.260 inhabit- ants; Bristol, 13.502: Burlington. 1919. and southington. e516. in Hartford county; and then the following New Haven county towns: Ansonia. 15.151: Beacon Falls 1.16O: Bethany. 459; Cheshire 1.9SS: Derby. S.991: Middle bury, S36; Naugatuck. 12.722; Oxford. 1.020: Prospect 539: Seymour. 4,786; Southbury 1,233: Waterbury. 73.141; Wolcott 563; and Woodbridge. S7S a total of 215, ,1O1.
 This leaves for the New Haven dis trict the following towns. all in New Haven county: Rranford. GOAT; East Haven. 1,795: Guilford. S.O01: Hamden. 5,S50; Madison, 1.534; Meriden. 32.066; Milford. 4.366; New Haven. 133 605; North Branford. S33: North Haven. D. 254: Orange. 11.272. and Wallingford, II, ,155, total of 213.77S.
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