Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-16
Eastern Part
OF StateGets
Bill Benefits
Proposals Include Con-
solidation of Marion
and Clackamas For
Senate Seat

The long expected report of Tho
special committee on reaportlon.
ment OF legislative districts has ap-
peared. The fireworks Will start
when the bill submitted by the com
.mittee gets to the floor tor adop-
ton or rejection.
Marion county is singled on. as
the sacrificlal goat in the reappor-
tionment, for under il Marion lose.
senator and representative.
There is likelihood of a hasty alli-
ance beng organized by william
ette valley delegations to resist the
program of redistricting, which
takes from the valley ana gives to
the empire east of the Cascade
range.
Ine legislators from the sage
brush have the whip hand on the
joint committee and the report re-
fleets their influence and import
ance. Having geen gerrymaudcred
70 years q 20 in the redistrictlng.
the present lawmakers from that
A efN~N-H't W. Ntlti ItilIltu 10 lnCFenSH
their ftreilsth in the legislature.
One Of the fights of the early part
of the session was over the ap-
pointment OF the joint committee
and now there will be a resuniptlOn
OF hostilities over the redlstrictirg
plan which the committee recon-
mends.
Ciaciamas Gains Little.
Marion county now has two SEN
ators, Laehmund and La Follett.
Under the proposed bill Marion
would have one senator alone and
one joint senator with ClackamasI
county. Clackamas now has one
senator alone and a joint senatorl
with Multnomah and Columbia. |
Senator Banks. The bill puts Mar
ion and Clackamas on an equal bnA-
Is, senatorially, and while Marion
suffers, there is a slight improve
ment for Clackamas. Should the
bill be enacted. political battles in
the future will wage over the Joint
senator from Clackamas and Mar
ion.
Senator Banks three-ply dis
trict, Multnomah, Columbia and
Jlackamas, would be changed to
and Columbia.
Senator Edwards district underI
he bill is chopped up. 1t now con
'ists of Lincoln, Tillamook, Wash
ngton and Yamhill counties. The
committee recommends a Joint SEN
Ator for Tillamook and Lincoln,
coast counties, leaving out Yamhnn
and Washington.
Senator Smiths district is abol-
shed.
He is senator from Josephine
county. A joint senatorial district c
s made up of Jackson aud Jose G
)hine counties. by the same tok- c
m Senator Thomas district of
Jackson Il abolished so thar instead !
" each OF these counties having a !
enator alone, they would pool on =
me.
Eastern Oregon Scores.
Having dcrached one senator by =
he foregoing combination, the
Committee has added second sen-
tor 10 Senator Upton's district OF
llamath. Lake jefferson. Crook I
nd Deschutes. II was Senator Up !
on who introduced the Joint geso- :
ution calling for the appointment
( the special re-apportionment a
ommittee, although he requested
ot to be appointed as a member Il
A shift Is made i'm senator Bells c
istrict of Lane ana Linn. The pro- a
osed district eliminates Linn and o
makes IL Lane and Benton.
Among the representative dis &
ricts, eastern Oregon again scores q
coupe Of points aud the valley is 81
rawn on for the purpose. Marion
Dunty now has five representatives n
nd the hill eliminates one. -. H.. Ia
letoher's district OF Lincoln and
ak is changed to Lincoln and TIL oi
NOOK, thereby reducing Polk'sl in
from one and a joint M
one reprosertativea lone. Charlcsi
Hopkins district. Douglas and OF
lckson counties, is eliminated, and fr
is the district Of ~ r. Beals
presenting Tillamook and Yam ri
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