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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