Evening star., 1932-02-09
EIGHTH MAY KEEP
LIMITS Of DISTRICT
Compromise on HaII-Wright
Bill Is ReaChed-To Be
Reported Today.
BY LESTER n. INSKEEP.
Staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, February O.
The House of Delegates this noon
zassed the amended Hall-Wright
redistrlc1urg ~ which leaves the
eighth district intact, -Uy = vote Of
96 to 4, the four dissenting votes
being those of the Republican mem
bers.
RICHMOND, Va, February 9.-As
the General Assembly convened today
it seemed certain that the redistricting
fight would be brought to an end be
fore the close of the days session, and
that the eighth district around which
the battle has been Waged, would f1nd
itself exactly as now constituted.
This situation was brought about
through compromise that was reached
at an early hour this morning between
representatives of the first, eighth, sew
enth and tenth districts.
The Hall-Wright bill, by which the
tenth district was divided, also gave the
eighth district four counties of the sew
enth. These. under the terms of the
compromise. will be returned by amend
ment today. The eighth district will
have neither additions nor subtractions
and will remain the smallest district in
the State, with total population of
183,934
Unite Seventh and Tenth.
The principal changes occur in the
seventh and tenth districts, which are
to be combined in their entirety, with
the exception of the three southernmos5
counties, which are to be added to the
sixth district.
This combination will form the
largest district in the State. 1t will
contain cities and 20 counties, with
population of approximately 100000.
The plan, it is said, has been agreed
to by leaders in the majority OF the
congressional districts of the State.
Under the terms of the compromise
Representative Howard w. Smith will
remain without opposition in the eighth
district, while Representative John w.
Flshburne OF the present seventh and
Representative Harry st. George Tucker
of the present tenth will find them
selves together in the new seventh.
The present situation has been
reached through a series of conferences
that started Saturday and were COM
pleted only this morning, when repre-
SentativeS of the seventh and tenth dis
tricts agreed to leave the eighth alone
and make the best of the situation.
tsSNloGA 4Sl44lS5 Ildo DCCLl StU dS d SDe-
cial and continuing order in the House,
beginning today, and was expected to
consume much longer time than now
seems necessary. 1t was believed that
the measure would pass the House early
in the afternoon and be transmitted to
the Senate under special rule, receiv-
ing immediate consideration there.
Amend Hall Wright Bill.
The changes were to be in the form
of three amendments to the present
Hall-Wright bill, which is the measure
sponsored by the eighth district dele
cation. In the case of the eighth dis
trict, the amendment merely restores its
present boundaries.
Reported out by the House Privileges
and Elections Committee following
hearing last week, the Hall-Wright bill
is also before the Senate Privileges and
Elections Committee, where it was re-
ferred to subcommittee.
The Early-WattS BILL by which the
first and eighth districts would have
been combined, is not before the House,
but was still before the Senate Com
mittee. This was the first bill intro
duced and resulted in an offensive and
defensive combination of the first, Sec
Ond and eighth district delegations, un-
oCi I1lc ecIIilS Ol WHICH Tie e1SQUn O1S-
trict was given the right to deal for
the combination.
The break came, it is claimed, when
this alliance added the fourth, ninth
and part of the fifth districts over
the week end, whereupon the Senate
leaders, seeing that the eighth district
was IN a position to force the Hall
Wright bill through the House, are
claimed to have capitulated and asked
for terms. The principal obstacle was
Albemarle County the home of Repre-
sentative Fishburne, and this. together
with the other three seventh district
counties, the eighth cheerfully turned
back.
Victory for Eighth.
Starting with their backs to the wall
members of the eighth district delega-
ton have ended in control of the sit
uation, and the compromise is termed
a surrender by the tenth and seventh
districts, who were allowed to CONSOLE
date as they desired, providing they
followed the policy of hands off" with
respect to the eighth district.
Under the terms of the compromise
the eighth district will be composed Of
the city of Alexandria and the coun-
ties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun,
Prince William, Fauquier, Stafford,
King George Culpeper, Orange and
Louisa.
The seventh district will be COM
posed of the cities Of Charlottesville,
HarriSonburg, Winchester, Staunton
and Buena Vista and the counties of
Albemarle, Clarke, Frederick Madison,
Rappahannock Page, Greene, Rocking
ham, Shenandoah, Warren, Amherst,
Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Bucking-
ham, Cumberland. FluVanna, Highland,