The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-17
BILL To
UTAH
Stookey Proposes Representa-
tive Unit of 1900, and Sena-
torial of 1880.
RATIO GIVES THIS COUNTY
25 MEMBERS INSTEAD OF Is
Opposition Reported From the
Country Districts, but Can
vaSS Fails to Show 1t.

The reapportionment of the number
of senators and representatives in the
legislature to the different legislative
districts in the state, according to the
census of 1910, is provided in a bill
introduced in the state senate Mon.
day by Senator S. J. Stookey of Salt
Lake.
The bill provides that there shall be
one representative for each 1900 Of pop
ulation, provided, however, that each
county, irrespective of population, shall
have at least one representative The
senatorial unit is made for popula-
tion Of 1880.
The ratio gives Salt Lake county
seventeen members of the lower house,
in place of ten, and eight senators III
place of five as at present. Box Elder
more representative and another SEN
ator is given TO the senatorial district
consisting Of Emery, Carbon, Uintah,
Grand and San Juan counties,
The increases provided for IN the bill
increase the membership of the senate
from eighteen TO twenty-five members
and that of the house from forty.five
10 flfty-five members.
Senate Favors Bill.
The bill went to the committee on
apportlonment. IT was reported that
some of the country members were op.
posed to the apportionment, on the
ground that it gives Salt Lake county
too many members An informal can
yass of the senate, however, showed
that with the possible exception of
o. h. l. Ill 60.
vored the bill
Another bill suggested as basis of
apportionment OF the state will prob
ably be introduced In the senate. This
is one which proposes that practically
the same population unit shall be EN-
ployed, but only one senator and only
one representative shall be elected from
each senatorial or from each represent
ative district. Under this plan the
state would be divided into fifty~five
representative and twenty-five SEN
atorial districts.
In Salt Lake this division would prob
ably mean two representatives and one
senator from each municipal ward in
the city and seven representatives and
three senators from the districts In the
county outside of the city. This plan,
IL is contended, would give more rep,
resentative apportionment. 1t is one
which is followed in most Of the other
states in the Union.
Representative Apportionment.
Under the bill introduced by Sen
ator Stookey the apportionment for the
different representative districts in the
state is as follows:
Th county OF Box Elder shall consti-
tufe the first representative district. and
be entitled to two representatives.
The county OF Cache shall constitute
the second representative district. and be
entitled to three representatives.
me county of Rich shall constitute the
Third representative district and be en-
titled TO one representative.
(. The county OF Weber shall constitute
the fourth representative district, and be
enLltled to five representatives..
Inc county OF Morgan shall constitute
the fifth representative district, and be
entitled to one representative,
inc county of Davis shall constitute
the sixth representative district, and be
entitled to one representative,
). The county OF Tooele shall constitute
tne seventh representative district. and
be entitled TO one representative.
The county OF Salt Lake shall consti-
tute the eighth representative district,
and be entitled to seventeen representa-
fives.
The. county of Summit shall constitute
the ninth representative district, and be
emitted to one representative,
The county Of Wasatch shall constitute
enlltled TO one representative.
The county OF Utah shall constitute the
eleventh representative district and be
4 entitled TO five representatives.
:, Ire county OF Uintah shall constitute
the twelfth representative district. and
pe entitled TO one representative.
The county Of Juab shall constitute the
thirteenth representative district, and be
entitled 10 one representative
The county OF Sanpete shall consti-
Il tute the fourteenth representa- tive dis
1 lrict. and be entitled to two representa- :
lives
The county Of Carbon shall constl-
tute the fifteenth representative district
anu be entitled to one representative.
INC county of Emery shall constitute
INC sixteenth representative district, and
DC entitled to one representative,
The county OF Grand shall constitute
the seventeenth representative district
hnd De entitled 60 one representative,
4, Inc county Of Sewer shall constitute
INC eighteenth representative district
hnd be entitled 10 one representative.
II Thc county Of Millard shall constitute
tne nin!eonth representative district. ano
De entitled To one representative,
A. :, The county OF Beaver shall constitute
l .ne twentieth representative district
dnd DC entitled to one representative
Inc county of piulc shall constitute