Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
STATES J|G-SAW|NG
NEWCONGRESSM MAP
Shifted Populations Revealed
by Census Gives Reappor-
tioning Task.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The siren call of grinding wheels,
the pot of gold at the gusher's mouth,
the glamour of Klieg lights and bright
sunshine inviting harried men with
grazing hair have set State legislative
jigsaws awaiting this Winter to cut out
a new congressional map of the United
States
Mostly it is few of the lustier
youngsters of Uncle Sans family,
grown Gargantuan in the last 10 years
on the pap of changing times, which
make it necessary to alter the repre-
sentation OF 33 States in the National
House of Representatives.
The 1880 census taker, as he went
his rounds for the first time since
1920, found that things had been hap
pening. Southern California, once
desert, had become a thickly populated
part of the United States. Florida's
palms had called some of the people
who used to be found upon the
Detroit, New York and Chicago,
where machinery groans and dollars
ring had won many another lad from
the milking school.
Battle in Most States.
BY and large, the legislators don't
like their job of deciding how to
distribute the gains or losses in rep
resentation from their States. In most
States it's a pitched battle and one
to be delayed.
Throughout most of the wide belt
of States between the two coasts re-
districting is felt to mean dwindling
sectional prestige. Missouri loses three
members, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky ana
Pennsylvania lost two each; Alabama,
Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont,
Virginia and Wisconsin each lose one.
California gains nine seats, most OF
them around Los Angeles and Holly
wood. Michigan gains four; Texas
three: New York, New Jersey and Ohio
two each; Connecticut, Florida, North
Carolina, Oklahoma and washington
one each.
In the States where the greatest
gains have been made, the battle Is pc
tween town and country. Los Angeles
increases a metropolitan grip on South
ern California; Detroit factory hands
take the scepter from Michigan country
men: Chicago towers over doWnState
Illinois; San Antonio and Dallas rise IN
Importance in Texas.
Wet and Dry Problem.
Where this situation prevails, the wet
and dry problem also strongly leavens
fha political melee which revolves
around redistricting. The drys, bellev-
ing the urban areas to be wet, struggle
To escape their domination. The vets
want any new wet voices heard. 80,
In most of the States plans are sun
indefinite Tentative bills nave DSen
introduced in many Legislatures, put
the real fight awaits the warning Gays u
the sessions. a...A
until next year, but the prospect VIII
inject a stiff fight for party control INTO
this years campaigns .,-..s.. ...,,.t
In Minnesota, where one district muss
be cut of, the finger points 70 tnat 2.
Representative Paul John kyaiet Oily
Farmer-Labor member OF CongLess. ~ -
is the smallest district m the Seaes ''A.ss
NAV be the one abolished.
Iowa. standing to lose two seats, hopes
Congress- will provide for ruling tne
count of aliens out Of the census totaiS
before a basis for re-dlStrlctlng
Established There are 1000, 600 Aliens
ia the United States, OF whom Iowa
has few.
IL or IA ChicagO's Hope.
Chicago hopes to get IL or IA OUT OF
khe 81 seats Illinois will have. In WASH
ineton the city Of Tacoma wants 70 DC
q separate district
In Texas an attempt may be mace
To eliminate the district of Representa-
tive Harry Wurzbach, its only Repunh-
can CONGRESSMAN. One proposed as
trict in Texas would be 800 miles long:
In MARYLAND it has been suggested
that all districts radiate out CT Baltl-
more, each with a portion OF the city
in it. A dozen tentative plans are on
file in Michigan, where the out-State
fight against Detroit is bitter. Some
of the plans would leave two or three
incumbent Congressman in one new
district to fight it out.
In Wisconsin two bills, one by con-
sentative Republicans, one by the
La toilette forces, conf1ne themselves
to the method of selecting committee
to work out the problem.
A resolution OF protest against the
loss of one seat has been sent to the
Senate judiciary Committee by Yer
mont. South Dakota, which has TWO
congressman left, may elect both at
large.
If it becomes impossible in other
States to pass reapportionment bills
during the present legislative sessions,
congressman would be elected at large
until new alignments could be made
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