Evening star., 1942-01-19
Virginia 10 Get
Two Plans for
Redistrictinq
Arlington Proposed
As New Senatorial
Constituency
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 19.-At
least two plans for re-apportioning
legislative seats among the counties
and cities Of the State will be pre-
sented to the General Assembly, 1t
appeared today, one embodying the
recommendations of the Fuller Re-
apportionment Commission and the
other to be sponsored by Senator
H. B., Moseley in behalf of rural
sections.
Senator Moseley said his bill
would call for relatively few changes
in the present districting. He added
that he had been at work on the
measure since the Legislative Re-
apportionment Commission, headed
by Senator E. R. Fuller of Rich
mond. made public its proposals
last August.
THE commissions report was not
satisfactory to many people in the
rural sections of the State" Mr..
Moseley said, explaining that the
measure which he and certain other
Assemblymen will sponsor will be
much less sweeping in its proposals
and will call for few actual changes
in the lines of legislative districts.
Separate Arlington District.
The Fuller Commission plan,
which would re-apportion legislative
representation on a population basis,
would increase Richmond'S member
ship in the House Of Delegates from
six to seven and would make the
city of Roanoke and Arlington
County separate senatorial districts.
The plan also would reshuffle n
existing House districts and 7 Senate
districts, principally by combining
county districts and by increasing
the representation OF urban COM
munities OF largest growth.
Based on the 1910 census, the
commissions plan would give Lynch
burg two delegates instead of the
present one; Norfolk five, as against
four at present: Wise and Arlington
Counties two each instead Of one,
and make Roanoke City and Roa-
noke County a floater House dis
trict. Six smaller districts would
be eliminated by a regrouping OF
the two counties in them.
Delegate Maurice D. Rosenberg
of Alexandria has announced he will
seek to have the Fuller Commission S
recommendations modified so as to
haYe Alexandria and Fairfax Coun-
ties in one senatorial district. in
stead of including Prince William
County, as was suggested in the
commissions report.
Meanwhile measures to exempt men
in military service from the poll tax
requirement for voting and to estab-
hsh a fiat salary of 500 q month
for State employees now in the SIS
to 500 brackets were ready today
for introduction.
The poll tax exemption proposal
will be offered by Delegate Preston
Moses of Pittsylvania in the form
Of q Joint resolution calling for q
constitutional amendment. Such an
amendment would require approval
Of two General Assemblies and a
referendum of the voters.
viii Offer Salary Bill.
The higher minimum salary pro-
posal for State employees came from
Delegate I. Newton Coleman of Din
widdie, who said he had prepared a
bill to introduce today. He esti-
mated the cost would be $281 ,967
annually. The measure, he said,
was designed merely to establish
the compensation of low-salaried
employees" and was not intended to
replace the war bonus" proposal
suggested to the Assembly by Gov.
Price.
State employees are prepared to
present a request for salary adjust
ment because of increased living
costs to a joint session of the House
Appropriations and Senate Finance
Committees tomorrow night.
The House and Senate were called
to convene at noon today after a
weekend holiday for two days of
full activity prior to the inaugura-
ton Of Colgate w. Darden, jr., of
Norfolk as Governor and William
M. Tuck of Halifax as Lieutenant
Governor in ceremonies Wednesday.
Attorney General A. P. Staples, re-
elected, also will take the oath of
Office at that time.