Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-06
10 STATES TO GAIN
26SEATS IN HOUSE
Twenty Will Lose One or More
Members, Census Data
Indicate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Dividing up 435 seats in the House
OF Representatives so each State will
have an equitable share of members
on the basis of its 1880 population today
occupied experts OF the Census Bureau.
The Secretary of Commerce has been
directed by Congress to submit on the
first day OF the December session
compilation of the population of The
states and the number of members to
which each is entitled under the method
known as ma jor fractions"
That method, roughly, applies the
principle OF counting as a unit any re-
mainder more than half and the drop
ping of remainder of less than one
half
Ten to Gain rs Seats
Application of this method to the
trst complete preliminary census I1g-
ureS indicated today 26 seats would be
anected in the coming reapportionment.
Twenty States probably will lose one or
more members. Ten States are expected
to gain the Is seats. Legislatures in
the States affected will have to rear
range their congressional districts be-
fore the election of 1882.
The first actual census total. which
still is subject to final revision by the
Census Bureau, showed reapportionment
hgures somewhat different from those
calculated by the House Census Com
mittee before reapportionment law was
adopted.
California, calculated by the COM
m1ttee to gain six seats, would be en-
Titled to nine, bringing her delegation
to 20. Michigan would gain feur addi-
tlonal members. Thus the rapid popu-
lation gains of these two States alone
hoJf nf
berships expected to be shifted
Other shifts from committee calcu-
latlons We're seen in New York and
ONO. The Empire State had been
slated Tor the loss Of member, but
unusual population gains probably will
entitle her to two additional seats. The
Buckeye State, on the other hand, prob
ably will gain but two of its estimated
increase of three members.
Georgia Due to Lose Two.
Georgia, which the committee had
not figured for loss, probably will lose
TWO members because of an unexpected
~ small increase of inhabitants, while
other unforeseen losses of one member
each were calculated to be in store for
Minnesota, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima and South Dakota.
Mississippi, which had been figured
AoA ioSS Oh Two Representatives, eX-
ceeded her estimated growth and prob
ably Will lose but one.
Texas, on the other hand, was slated
Tor gain of two members, but because
OF exceptional growth is expected to
gain three.
Committee gains borne out
by current population figures were esti-
mated for New Jersey with two addi-
tional members, and Connecticut, Flor
IDA, North Carolina and Washington
with one apiece.
On present figures Missouri would be
the largest loser, as the census commit
tee had indicated, with a decrease of
three members, bringing her delegation
down to Is. Losses of two members
each, all previously indicated, would be
sustained by Indiana, Iowa and Ken
lucky.
10 to Lose / Each.
States which the committee had indi-
Gated would lose one member and whose
population increases have not been suf-
ficient to upset these predictions, are
Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana. Maine
Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania
tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
The table of State gains and losses
follows: