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Worcester might be in that because it would be 1,700 under
the 27,700 projection.
Consequently, while 1 applaud the attempts of
Mr. Gilchrist to be the peacemaker, we need the peacemakers
among us. I don't think really the possibility as
suggested holds out more than the prospect for a General
Assembly of 144 delegates and 36 senators with the seven
counties not really being entitled to a delegate under the
population formula, not that it might not happen that they
would be significant enough in voting in a larger area to
elect their own resident delegate.
That might be possible. I recognize that. The evil
that I think we are trying to combat here is too large a
house. We have a house of 142 members and actually under
the amendment before you, in order to keep the four-to-one
ratio, you would add two more delegates to a house
which is already overcrowded.
We go from 142 to 144. This, it seems to me, would
only compound by two the overcrowded situation which we have
and which we have heard described and a house which is
really too large to function effectively at the committee |
