REPPLIER 



4973 REPRESENTATIVES, HOUSE OF 



fendant is unable to pay, the plaintiff may 

 bring suit against the defendant's bondsmen. 



REPPLIER, rep' leer, AGNES (1855- ), an 

 American essayist, born at Philadelphia. After 

 graduating at Sacred Heart Convent, Torres- 

 dale, Pa., she at once began a literary career 

 by contributing to numerous magazines. In 

 1888 she wrote her first book, Books and Men; 



this was followed by Points oj View, Essays in 

 Idleness, The Fireside Sphinx, In Our Convent 

 Days, Americans and Others and The Cat. She 

 has a delightful way of tingeing her discussions 

 with light banter and harmless irony, with the 

 result that her writings on even most serious 

 subjects are interesting and entertaining. In 

 Our Convent Days is especially pleasing. 



THE STORY OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



EPRESENTATIVES, HOUSE OF, 

 the lower branch of the Congress of the United 

 States, coordinate in most of its powers with 

 the upper house, the Senate, and patterned 

 originally after the English House of Commons. 

 The Constitution prescribed the general organi- 

 zation of the House, but left the details of 

 operation to the members themselves. The 

 number of members is always to be self-deter- 

 mined, the Constitution providing that the 

 number of Representatives should not be more 

 than one for every 30,000 people ; until the first 

 census should be taken the membership was 

 fixed at sixty-five. 



After each Federal census the House deter- 

 mines its number of members for the next ten- 



: NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 The apportionment Indicated above wan made 

 In 191i < a sett of Ar!z<> 



New M- will remain effective until 1923. 



year period. When this has been decided the 



"f representation is found by dividing 



the population of all the states by this number ; 



the quotient represents the number of people 



who are entitled to one Representative. Di- 

 viding this ratio into the population of any 

 state, the number of Representatives that state 

 is entitled to send to Congress is found. The 

 state then proceeds to divide its territory into 

 districts, as many districts being provided as 

 its allotment of Representatives, so all parts of 

 the state may be represented in its Congres- 

 sional delegation. It is not a legal necessity 

 that this division into districts be made, so far 

 as the attitude of Congress is concerned. It 

 would satisfy every qualification as to residence 

 if all of the state's delegation were from the 

 same section or from the same city. Even with 

 the district formation it would be legal if the 

 voters of any district were to choose as their 

 Representative a resident of some remote part 

 of the state. Of course this is never don* 

 district is always able to furnish suitable men, 

 thus retaining its local representation in Wash- 

 ington. 



The membership of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives since the foundation of the p 

 mcnt, as specified by law for each ten-year 

 period, is given below: 



and Arizona, each with one Representa- 

 tiv<- in Congress. 



