The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-15

work on the new apportionment they
will give attention TO somewhat wide
spread demand that the new appor-
tionment cut down the number of
members, probably to 400. There VIII
be determined opposition to making
any reduction, and, indeed, the cen
Sus committee will have to listen to
much argument in favor of holding
the number up to what 1t is under
the present apportionment or even in
creasing it to $50.
Since 1870. when the first count of
the people was made, the house has
taken a jump upward in membership
every ten years, with two exceptions,
The first house of representatives
which was created by constitutional
apportiOnment. contained only 50 mem
hers. The apportionment under the
census of 1900 increased the member
ship to LOG, and the growth by decades
since that date has been as follows:
1900, 142 members; 1910, 1856 mem
bers; 1920, 213; 1890, 242; 1910, 232;
1850, 237 Gin these two decades the
house decreased in membership from
what it was in 1S30) 1860, 243; 1870,
293; 1880, 332; 1890, 357; 1900, 301
and 1910, 435.
Gain for States With Big Cities.
The greatest increase In representa-
tion has taken place in the states in
which large cities have sprung up dur
ing the last century. For instance, New
York state started off in 1890 with
only ten representatives. Today that
state has 43 seats in the house. Penn
sylvania. started off in 1870 with -
members of the body and now has SO;
| Illinois was not represented at all In
the house until 1910, and then by one
member only. That state now has p
representatives. Ohio was represent.
ed by one member in 1900, and through
increase in population has gained %
seats in the house.
! 1t is interesting to note that some
of the states have no more represent
atives than they had when the first
house assembled. One of these is
! Connecticut, which had five members
of the house that was created by the
constitutional apportiOnment In 1910
that state had I representatives, and
in 1920 and 1880, 6, but now it is
| back to >. Virginia also has the
same number of representatives to.
day that She had in the first congress,
| 10. In 1910 that state occupied %
seats, but along about 1910 the mum
I her went down to Is. and ten years
later to Is, and little later back to
/ the original number.
National Forest Policy Needed
The American Forestry association
is calling of national forest pol.
lev that will provide for the re,
foreStation of all cut-over timber
/ lands on the public domain and
also all such lands as may be owned
I privately. Charles Lathrop Pack, presi.
dent Of the association, believes the
only permanent solution of the paper
problem is to be found in reforeSta-
tion on broad scale. He would begin
the work on the lands from which pulp
wood has been taken. He points out
/ that in 1899 the pulp wood industry
I used l.9S6,OO0 cords of wood, that ten
years later it.uSed 100000 cords and
that for The last five years the aver
age consumption has been around D.
100000 cords Il year. During the last
nine years, according to his figures,
The mills have used 9,264,000 cords Of
I imported pulp wood in addition to the
1 enormous cut in the United States. =
/ According to the view of the Ameri-
can forestry association, foresight
would have dictated the reforeStation
of every acre of the cutOyer land in
/ the United States. The annual report
sued shows that the rate of depletion
! of the forests is more than twice.
4 probably three times. what is actually
/ being produced by growth in "A form
/ Serviceable for products ether then
4 tireWoOd. That government official calls
attention TO the ever retreating sources
/ Of timber supply. He notes that al
/ ready the supplies of all the great
eastern cenlerS of production are ap-
/ preaching exhaustion. Even in the
/ South, he says, most of the mills have
! not more than ten or fifteen years sup
ply of virgin timber ahead Of them.
Government Action Needed
In the early years of the present
/ century it looked as though the man
/ agemcnt of forests as permanent pro-
/ ductive properties might be voluntarily
/ undertaken by private owners on II
/ large scale. but since then the situa-
! ton has materially changed. The need
/ for the adoption of an enlarged pro-
! gram of acquisition, the forester points
out, has become increasingly urgent
/ More than twenty years ago the divi-
/ sion of forestry rs Il was then called.
4 offered TO give advice and assistance
To- private timber owners who might
/ wish 10 consider applying forest man
agement to their properties. BY the
middle of 1909 requests had been re-
ceived for the examination of private
holdings, large and small. comprising
/ in all 109O00O0 acres of land. Many
Of these requests We're from large lun-
her companies and other owners Of
extensive timber tracts. On the
strength OF the showing made by the
a.. .