WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP. Michigan and Northwestern tied for the 1926 | paid $2,500,000. mpionship. To see the games 1,500,000 persons follows:

The final standing of the colleges

FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

E. T. Franks, representing commerce and manufactures. Director, J. C. Wright; Secretary and Chief Clerk, E. Jos. Aronoff. Headquarters, Washington, D. C. There are no district

This board is composed of the Secretaries of
bor (Chairman), Agriculture, and Commerce, the
ited States Commissioner of Education (Vice
airman). Harry L. Fidler representing labor,
ivin F. McIntosh representing agriculture, I offices.

ELECTORAL AND POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT, 1924

(Compiled by William Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Representatives, from the official returns sent the Dept. of State at Washington by the Governors of each State.)

Grand total

531 15,725.016 8,386,503

4,822,856 57.520 23,967 1,532 36,428 36,386 29,091,417

La Follette's vote in California was cast on the Socialist ticket; in Colorado and Montana his total is at of Farmer-Labor and Progressive combined; in Connecticut and New York his total is Socialist and rogressive combined: in Missouri and Pennsylvania his total is Socialist and Labor combined; his vote in orth Dakota was as a Non-Partisan; in Oklahoma his total is Farmer-Labor; in West Virginia his total is cialist and Farmer-Labor combined.

APPORTIONMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION. (Ratios under the Constitution and at each census, 1790 to 1910, by States. Source: Reports of

Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

RATIOS UNDER CONSTITUTION AND CENSUSES.

Alabama.

tion.

STATE.

30,000.

Con+

stitu- 1790. 1800. 1810. |1820. 1830. | 1840. 1850. 1860. 1870. 1880.1890. 1900.

139495

3226

12

5272T

45

34

40

34

33

13

13

3}

33

34

34

9

6.33

Washington.

West Virginia..

Wisconsin..

Wyoming

Total.

65 106 142 186 213

242

232

237 243 293 332

but increased to 292 by act of May 30, 1

Representation such as shown in table wa S signed after apportionment under censuses, se lows: (1790) Tenn.: (1800) Ohio: (1810) Ala, L Ind., La., Miss.; (1830) Ark., Mich.; (1840) Fla., Iowa, Texas, Wis.; (1850) Minn., Öre.... Neb., Nev.; (1870) Col; (1880) Idaho, M S. D, N. D., Wash., Wyo.; (1890) Utah; (2 Okla. Ariz. and N. Mex. were included in apport ment under 1910 census, in anticipation of be

Since the taking of the Census of 1920 there have been several efforts in the House of Repre sentatives to pass a reapportionment bill based on that census as provided for under Article I., Section 2. paragraph 3 of the Constitution. All had falled up to the end of 1926. If the present membership of 435 should be retained, and reapportionment based on that, these States would be entitled to additional representatives: California, 3; Connecticut, 1; Michigan, 2; New Jersey, 1; North Carolina, 1: Ohio, 2; Texas, 1; Washington, 1. These States would lose representatives: Indiana, 1; Iowa, 1:ing States. Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 1; Maine, 1; Mississippi, 1; Missouri, 2; Nebraska, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Vermont, 1.

If reapportionment is arranged so that no States shall lose a representative it would be necessary to fix the ratio at 218,986 and increase the membership of the house to 483. Twenty-three State delegations would then be unchanged and the increases would be: Ala., 1; Ark., 1; Cal., 5; Conn., 1; Ga., 1; Ill., 3; Md., 1; Mass., 2; Mich., 4; Minn., 1; N. J., 2; N. M., 1; N. Y., 4; N. C., 2; Ohio, 4; Okla., 1: Ore., 1; Penn., 4; 8. C., 1; Tenn., 1; Tex., 3; Va., 1; Wash., 1; W. Va., 1 and Wis., 1.

The House by a vote of 265 to 87 on April 8, 1926, on a vote regarding procedure refused to instruct the Census Committee to report a reapportionment bill.

Membership of House under census of 1850 was Increased from 233 to 234 by act of July 30, 1852; membership under census of 1860 was increased from 233 to 241 by act of March 4, 1862; membership under census of 1870 was originally fixed at 283,

Maine's apportionment of seven members 1810 census was included in the 20 members nally assigned to Mass. but credited to Maine 17 It became a State, March 15, 1820.

The ratio under the Constitution was one Be sentative in Congress for each 30,000 of popu Thereafter, the ratios, as determined by t cennial censuses, were as follows: 1790 and 180) # to each 33,000; 1810, one in each 35,000: 1820 in each 40.000: 1830, one in each 47,700: 184 in each 70,680: 1850, one in each 93.423: 180 in each 127,381; 1870, one in each 131,425: 188 in each 151.911: 1890, one in each 173.901. one in each 194,182; 1910, one in each 211.5′′

Of the thirteen Original States the present qu are the same as under the Constitution in Cons cut, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia The inal quotas in the other Original States were an lows: Georgia, 3; Massachusetts, 8; New Bir shire, 3; New Jersey, 4: New York, 6; Nomb Ci ina, 5; Pennsylvania, 8; Rhode Island, 1: sat for Carolina, 5.