Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-22
Bu'|elgh County Will Have
Three Representatives to
Elect This Year
Red River Valley Section
Losing Predominant In
fluence 10 Legislature
Western Part Of State BeDe.
fitted by Senatorial Re-
apportlonment Act

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With state and congressional Is
sues overshadowing county and dis
trict situations, few voters OF Nortn
Dakota are cogni.ant of the prodigy:
GUS alteration of the political map OF
the commonwealth resulting from the
application of the senatorial reappor'
tionment act passed by the Twel1ta
legislative assembly. The Thirteenth
legislative assembly, which convenes
Tuesday, January 7, 1918, will be COM
posed of fifty senators and Ill rep
resentatives. 1t will enjoy the dis
tinction of beilg the first law-maklng
body of the state whose senate Will
comprise the full numbers permlssl-
BILE under the constitution. With the
expiration of the year 1914 the
Fiftieth district will cease 10 exist
and the number of state senators WILL
again be forty-nine, as 1t was year
ago.
The balance Of political power,
which has, since statehood been held
by the eastern section OF the STATE
is gradually working westward with
the ccnter of population. The next
session will see the forces from these
districts included in the First con-
gressional district diminished by ono
senator and five representatives. The
counties comprising the Second con-
gressional district will lose one sela-
tor and gain five representatives.
The Third congressional district en-
tracing the entire western portion OF
North Dakota, Will gain three sena-
tors and seven representatives.
Divide count, an offspring of Will
liams, and Burke county, one OF
Wards progeny, are included in the
Fortieth district with one senator and
three representatives. 'Renville coun-
ty, another descendant of Ward. COM
prises the Forty-third district with
one senator and one representative.
Ward county formerly embracing two
di4tricts and allotted two senators
and seven representatives, remains
divided into two districts, the Second
and Twenty-ninth, with its total num-
Der of representatives curtailed by
two.
Morton county was formerly the
Thirtieth district with one senator
and three representatives; but under
the reapportionment act becomes the
Thirtieth and Forty-seventh districts
with a total of two senators and five
representatives. Bottineau county,
which was divided into two districts,
Is merged into one, the transforms
ton resulting in the loss of one sena-
tor and the gain of one representa-
tive. Pembina county's two former
are also merged, the loss of one sena-
ter the only resultant.
Cavalier county is responsible for
the fiftieta senator of the Thirteenth
legislative assembly. It was in form.
er years separated into two districts,
the Eighteenth and the Fortieth.
The Eighteenth remains the same,
the number of representatives being
cut down from two to one for the
Thirteenth session. The old Fortieth
district becomes the Fiftieth with one
senator and one representative. This
division is merely provisional, tho
district ceasing to exist at the expira-
ton of the year 1914, when it merges
into the Eighteenth district that will
then comprise the entire county, with
an apportionment of one senator and
three representatives.
The counties of Burleigh, Mclean,
Dickey, Sargent and Rolette each
gain one representative. The Twen-
ty-sixth district, embracing Emmons
and Kidder. Counties, gains two rep
resentatives, and the Thirty-sixth dis
trict, that includes the counties OF
Mcintosh and Logan, gains one ad-
ditional representative.
Walsh county loses two representa-
tives, one one from each district, and
Grand Forks county loses three rep
resentatives, also one from each dis
trict. One district from Barnes coun-
ty and one district from McHenry
county each lose one representative.
The immediate effect Of the reap
portionment act at this time tends tc
make the scramble for legislative
seats less wild in the counties which
have increased representatives, and
keener in those districts where the
members have been lessened.