"At the general election held in the state of Washington on November 4, 1930, the voters approved, by a small majority, Initiative Measure No. 57, which provides for a general reapportionment of seats in the State Legislature. For twenty-nine years there had been developing a problem of representation in Washington, and since 1910 the situation had grown steadily worse. Yet in the face of an increasingly exasperating state of affairs the Legislature, unmindful of its duty under the constitution, persistently declined to act."
