 By the end of the decade things had grown worse.One Detroit congressman represented 1.3 million people while some rural districts in Missouri had fewer than 180,000 people.The Reapportionment Act of 1929 capped the number of representatives at 435 (the size previously established by the Apportionment Act of 1911), where it has remained except for a temporary increase to 437 members upon the 1959 admission of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union.