. St. Nicholas [serial]. e will of a great nation. It con-sists of 96 senators, who represent the 48 States,and of 435 representatives, who represent 100,- N. Y. 43 PA 36 ILL 27 OH 10 22 T EXA5 18 M AS S. 16 M 0. 16 M Ch . 13 C AL .11 N .J 12 GA 2 IN D. .13 A LA 10 W IS. II K Y. II 10 WA II KA N. VA T EN \l. N C. M !N^ 1. 6 10 10 10 10 NE B, 6 0 KL ^. 8 M S5 8 LA 8 CO L. W VA M D. S .C. A RK 4 6 6 7 7 S. D,3 3 N. D, M E. FL A. 5 C ON N. ORE. 3 4 4 W/ , 5 DEL,1 WW 1 1 1 MOf VT 2 UT VH 1 1 to A HO2 A CHART SHOWING THE OF EACH STATE INTHE NATIONAL HOUSE O
. St. Nicholas [serial]. e will of a great nation. It con-sists of 96 senators, who represent the 48 States,and of 435 representatives, who represent 100,- N. Y. 43 PA 36 ILL 27 OH 10 22 T EXA5 18 M AS S. 16 M 0. 16 M Ch . 13 C AL .11 N .J 12 GA 2 IN D. .13 A LA 10 W IS. II K Y. II 10 WA II KA N. VA T EN \l. N C. M !N^ 1. 6 10 10 10 10 NE B, 6 0 KL ^. 8 M S5 8 LA 8 CO L. W VA M D. S .C. A RK 4 6 6 7 7 S. D,3 3 N. D, M E. FL A. 5 C ON N. ORE. 3 4 4 W/ , 5 DEL,1 WW 1 1 1 MOf VT 2 UT VH 1 1 to A HO2 A CHART SHOWING THE OF EACH STATE INTHE NATIONAL HOUSE OF REP-RESENTATIVES. (The vote of each member is represented byan area equal to one of the small squares.) 000,000 American people. Each of the 435 mem-bers of the House of Representatives speaks andacts for a congressional district in which there I9I6.] A REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS 355 are about 200,000 people. A member of the Houseis a resident of the district which elects him,moves about among the people of his district,. MAP OK INDIANA, SHOWING HOW A STATE IS DIVIDEDINTO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. talks with them, corresponds with them, andlearns their wishes and their needs. In like man-ner the two members of the Senate who arechosen to represent a State are careful to ac-quaint themselves with the needs of their a representative body, therefore. Congress isall that can be desired. In all the world there isnot another nation that has a law-making body inwhich the people are as evenly and fairly repre-sented as the people of the United States arerepresented in Congress. Ought we not then to be proud of our Con-gress? Ought we not to regard the members ofthat body as the most useful and the most hon-orable of public servants? As a matter of fact,many Americans do not accord to Congress thehonor it deserves. Too often Congress is de-nounced as a stupid and selfish body, and slursare cast at its members. Readers of St. Nicho-las may not know this, but it is a truth never-
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