Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-02
Republicans Have Adopted
the Reapportionment
Plan.
IN EFFECT AT ONCE
Reform Brought About by
Result Of Last Nation
al Convention.

WASHINGTON, Feb. i.-Secretary
James b. Reynolds of the Republican
national committee today announced
that the new plan Of representation
in the next Republican national con
ventlon proposed by the Republican
national committee had been approved
by states representing 290 electoral
vOtes-some twenty five more than
necessary under the conditions made
by the national commttee-and will
he put in effect when the committee
meets TO arrange for the next national
convention,
Secretary Reynolds statement says:
AT q meeting of the committee, held
in Washington In December, 1913, it
was decided that the basis Of repre-
sentation should be changed, II Re-
publican state conventions In states
representing q majority OF the votes
in the electoral college, which would
be equivalent to the majority of dele
gates In the national convention,
should authorize the change. At that
! time the following resolution was
passed:
Confident that the action Of this
committee, representing as 1t does the
practically unanimous sentiment OF
the Republican voters Of the various
states, viii be ratified and be made ef-
fective.
"'Bo It Resolved, That this commit
tee shall issue the call for delegates
to the national convention, to be held
in the year 1916, to nominate candi-
dates for president and vice president,
in accordance with the following basis
Of representation:
Each state shall be entitled In
such convention to four delegates at
large.
1.-Two additional delegates at large
| for each representative at large in
congress elected from any state en-
titled to one or more additional rep
reBentatives in congress under the APP
| portionment made in accordance with
| the last census, but In which. state no
new congressional district VS. been
! provided by law.
| Zone delegates from each congress
sional district.
May Elect at Large.
"'An additional delegate for each
! congressional district IN which the
vote for any Republican elector in
! 1908, or for the Republican nominee
/ fr congress in 1914, shall have been
not less than seven thousand flye hun
dred.
PROVIDED, however, that the total
humber of delegates TO which any
state is entitled shall be chosen from
the state at large If the law Of the
state in which the election occurs so
| IprescriDes; and,
"'Troyided, Further, That in the
case OF any state electing all repre-
sentatives In congress from the state
at large, such state shall be entitled
to as many delegates, elected at large
as though the state were divided into
separate congressional districts.
The resolution also provides for al
ternates; delegates from the District
Of Columbia, Alaska and the insular
possessions: and the approval Of the
new system In such number of states
as are entitled to cast a majority OF
the votes in the present electoral col
lcge.
Mr.. Reynolds statement further
says: THE states that formally rati-
fed this plan, and the electoral votes
that they represent, are al follows:
Arkansas 8, California l3, Colo
rado &, Connecticut I, Idaho A. Hi
nois 20 Indiana Is, Maine 6. Massa-
chusetts IS. Michigan IS, Missouri lS,
New Jersey IA, New York 46, n. Car
Olina ~. Ohio 24, Oklahoma 10, Rhode
Island g. South Carolina 8, Tennessee
I12, Vermont 4, Washington !, West
Virginia 8.
The membership Of the next ma
tjonal convention, I'm accordance with
the above plan, has not been worked
out in detail by states, in order to de-
tcrmine the additional delegates TO be
allowed. The result by states will
ne made known later by the national
committee.
The statement further says: The
official returns that have been COM
piled by the Republican national com
I mittee show that on national issues
the vote Of the country in November
was: Republican 5,9l5.270, Demo-
cratic 5,752 $50. Progressive l,474,-
2t3."
This compilation was made on the
vote for United States senators and
Representatives I'm congress, and not
on the vote for governors or other
state officers.