Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Another Member of Congress

It will be seen by our dispatches this morning that the apportionment act which has passed both houses fixes the number of members at 241 – being an increase of eight over the number at present fixed by law and three more than the number in the present House. – These members are divided between Vermont, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Kentucky.  This gives us six members of Congress – an increase of four over our present number – the largest proportionate increase in the Union.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 28, 1862, p. 2

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