Today -100: April 9, 1926: Of reapportionment and redwoods

The House of Representatives refuses, by a vote of 265 to 87, to do its constitutionally mandated duty to reapportion congressional districts following the 1920 census. Some congresscritters claim that there is no such constitutionally mandated duty.

Prohibition agents padlock a redwood tree in Humboldt County, California which someone had turned into a still.

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