Evening star., 1942-02-26
Reapportioning Plan
Jeopardized by Action
0fLegisIdture
Duplicate Bills Again
In Committee; Sportsmen
Testify on Come Measure
BY Staff Correspondent Of The star.

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
RICHMOND, Feb. 26-Reappoint-
ment of House and Senatorial dis
tricts to give the Northern Virginia
area increased representation in the
General Assembly, proportionate to
its population, appeared in doubt to-
day as the result of action taken by
both branches of the Legislature.
Recommendations of the Fuller
Reapportionment Commission to
give Arlington q State Senator of its
own and to provide Fairfax and
Prince William Counties and the
city OF Alexandria with another Sen
ator, instead of one Senator all four
the Jurisdictions now have, were re-
ferred to subcommittee yesterday
by the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections.
Recommendations of the Fuller
Commission to give Arlington two
members of the House of Delegates
instead of one, already have been
reported from the House Committee
on Privileges and Elections, but were
re-referred to that committee last
week.
Hearing Monday.
Senator Aubrey G. Weaver of
Front Royal yesterday moved to
submit the Senate bill relating to
senatorial districts only to q sub
committee and a public hearing was
set for Monday at 10 am.
Yesterdays action now leaves one
Of the duplicate reapportionment
bills dealing with House districts
before the Privileges and Elections
Committee of the lower branch of
the Assembly, while the other dupli-
cate bill relating to senatorial dis
trict apportionment is before a SINH
lar committee of the Senate.
Senator Henry T. Wickham of
Hanover County, chairman of the
Senate committee, pointed out that
Gov. Darden is very much interested
in having the State reapportioned
Since most of the States areas stand
to lose representation to the few
areas which have noted gains in
population during the past IL years,
hard battle was anticipated from
the beginning in trying to put the
Fuller Commissions recommended
tionS across.
Delegations from Northern Vir-
ginia were among the large number
Of sportsmen who appeared before
the Senate General Laws Commit
tee yesterday at public hearing on
the reorganization bill of Delegate
E. B. Moore of Berryville
The measure, which has already
passed the House, proposes to re-
organize the Commission of Game
and Inland Fisheries, the Conserva-
ton Commission and the Commits
sion of Fisheries, so as to provide
each agency with five members
whose terms would run concurrently
with that of the Governor. The
sportsmen, however, appeared in be-
half of an amendment to the bill
relating to the Commission of Game
and Inland Fisheries which would
establish, instead of five members,
single administrator of the Fish
and Game Department, and an ad-
visory council of nine members who
would not have the power to vote.
Opponents Heard.
Northern Virginians, as well as
sportsmen from all other sections
of the State, previously supported
the amendment for single admin
istrator and yesterdays hearing was
given over almost exclusively to op-
ponents of the plan. Those who
appeared yesterday to support the
single administrator plan included
Reynolds Harnsberger, president,
Arlington Fairfax Chapter, Izaak
Walton League; Morris Shipman
and j. L. McCalister, members of
that chapter; Jack Stowell of Wash
ington, D. c., and member of the
Front Royal Chapter of the Izaak
Walton League; Duncan Gibbs and
Turner Slaughter, both Of the Front
Royal chapter of the league, and
Jay Reed and Page Marshall, both
of the Alexandria chapter of the
league. Ben Temple, president Of
the Advisory Council of the Com
mission of Game and Inland Fish
cries, also supported the proposed
change.