The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-08-16
sTRONG OPPOSITION IN Sc.
TO THE HOUSE COMMIT 1
MITTEE'S BILL.
Little Regard For Population and
Shape of Some of the Districts.
Second Is Cut Deep.

After several times preparing a
hill for the reappOrtionment of the
congressional districts of the state
and as many times reconsidering it
and making changes the redistrict-
ing committee of the lower house
, of the legislature finally reported a
bill that has been passed by that
body and sent to the senate.
The twelve districts as passed by
the house and population of each
are as follows:
The Twelve Districts.
First District-Chatham, Bryan,
Burke, Mcintosh, Liberty, Tattnall,
BuIIoch, Efingham, Screven and
Jenkins-219,752.
Second Worth, ColQuitt,
Thomas, Grady, Decatur, Miller,
Early, Baker, Mitchell, Dougherty
and CaIhoun-99, 062.
Third District-Ben Hill, Turner,
Crisp, DooIy, Macon, Taylor, Schley,
Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Randolph,
Clay, Quitman, Stewart and Webster
-204,51O.
Fourth District-Carroll, Douglas,
Coweta Heard, Troup, Meriwether,
Harris, Talbot, Muscogee, Marion
and ChattahOochee-211,787.
Fifth Dissatisfaction, Campbell,
DeKalb and 1897.
Sixth District-Bibb, Jones, Bald
win, Putnam, Jasper, Butts, Henry,
Fayette, Spalding, Pike, Epson, Mon
roe and ,795.
Seventh Decentralization, Polk,
Paulding, Cobb, Barlow, Floyd, Cor
don, Chattooga, Walker, Dade, Ca
toOsa, Whitfield and Murray
223,544.
Eighth District-Franklin, Hart,
Ebert, Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Madison,
Clarke, OcOnee, Morgan, Newton and
5,143.
Ninth District-Jackson, Gwin-
nett, Hail. Cherokee, Fannin, For
syth, Banks, Habersham, Stephens,
GiImer, Pickens, Milton, Union, Ra-
bun, Lumpkin, White, Dawson and
Towns-214,173.
Tenth Richmond, Jeffer-
son, Washington, Wilkinson, Han
cock, Greene, Taliaferro Warren,
Glascock, McDuffie, Columbia and
Lincoln-212,88O
Eleventh District-Glynn, Cam
den, Charlton, Pierce, Wayne, APP
ping, Jeff Davis, Ware, Clinch, Ech-
OILS, LoWndes, Brooks, Berrien, Tiff,
Coffee and Irwin-219, $40.
Twelfth District-Twiggs Hous-
ont, Pulaski, Wilcox, Dodge, Telfair,
Laurens, Johnson, Emanuel, Mont
gomery and Toombs-207, 805.
The Second Cut Deep.
According to the arrangement pro-
posed by the committee the Third
congressional district is in reality
the new district, as the Twelfth dis
trict is made up almost entirely Of
the counties now composing the
Third
The pruning knife has been sent
deeper into the Second than in any
Of the other districts, and if the
house bill passes the senate it will
be the smallest instead of the largest
district in the state, as it now is.
1t will lose seven of its eighteen
counties, and drop in population
from approximately 100000 to 1897
VO0. The Sixth will be the largest
district, with nearly 244,000 popula-
ton.
Five of the seven counties taken
n
Third district, these being Terrell,
Randolph, Quitman, Clay and Tur-
ner. Two others, Berrien and Tiff,
are transferred to the Eleventh dis
trict.
When the job was completed it
mad left every congressman in his
present district with the exception of
Dudley Hughes, who is moved into
the newly created Twelfth, leaving
lAe Third without a member.
Weird Shapes.
That the house bill is doomed to
rough shedding in the senate is prob
able Some of the districts assume
weird shapes under the rearrange-
ment, particularly the Third.
To say the least of it, the bill as
mapped out by the house committee
IS IN for a cat and dog time of 1t
oelore it gets through. 1t is going
u De subject to such fire of amend
ments as few measures have ever
undergone.
senator Felker has a redistricting
Dill that is favored by many of the