Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-10
Washington Unions House Figures.

| The Washington Union of the 9th, publish
es what it calls SO full and detailed statement of
the composition of the Thirty sixth Congress,
ascertaned as to the elections already held, and
probable as to those yet to be held" Its foot
ings are as fellows in the States where cleo
tions have been held, 81 Democrats, I2 Anti
Lecompton Democrats, Republicans l04. The
same States in the present Congress stand So
Democrats, . Americans, IL Anti-Lecompton
Democrats, s. Republicans.
Present representation of the States to elect,
Democrats &c, American IL, Anti Lecompton
Democrat l, Republicans 7.
| Ii the States to elect are politically represen-
ted as in the present Congress, according to the
Unions figures the next House will stand -
Democrats 100, Americans I2, Anti -Lecompton
Democrats l3, Republicans Ill.
The Union does not vouch for the entire ac.
curacy of its figures as respects the November
elections, for the official returns may change
some the classification of some of the dis
trcts. 1t thus comments, styling the Douglas
Democracy ''the Sectional branch"
1t will be seen that, though the Democratic
party should elect men of their own in every
southern district now represented by Americans,
it would still have but hundred and twelve,
minority of the House, The admission of Ore
gon would give another member; but there
would still be but hundred and thirteen of the
hundred and nineteen necessary for majority.
Nor is it probable that the party will elect more
than six or eight in plpce of the twelve
cnpfbarv,
and so it is hardly possible that the full strength
of the party in the next House can be more
than about one hundred and ten, III two
hundred and thirty six or seven. On the
other hand, it is obvious that neither branch of
the opposition viii have control of that body;
for there viii be but one hundred and eleven
republicans twelve anti Lecompton democrats,
and say four or five Southern Americans. In
ether words, the complexion OF the House will
be very simi ar to that of the session of 1853
and sc, which was signaIized by so long and
excited 4 struggle for the organization of that
body; yet it Is to be considered that if as good
an understanding shall subsist between the an.
tl-Lccompton Democrats and the Republicans
as subsisted last winter, when Mr.. Harris, of
Illinois, acted as leader of the coalition, the
Black Republican strength in the House will be
as decided as one hundred and twenty -four, or
a clear majority, exclusive of sdch Americans as
Winter Davis, of six in full House.
There is one aspect of the above recapitula-
ton, of elections already held, which is signifi
cant, and teaches a lesson from which some
profit may be derived in the future. 1t is to be
observed that neither branch of the Democratic
party, the national or the sectional branch, has
profited by the detection in the party last win
ter. The number of sectional or Douglas
Democrats in the next House remains about
the same as in the present; the whole profit and
advantage of their desertion having baen reap
ed by the Black Republicans, who have in
creased their representation from eighty-fve in
the present House to one hundred and four in |
the next. Nay, if we classify Messrs Thomas
L. Harris, Horace F. Clark, and their conferes |
according to the votes which elected them, we
shall have to set them down as Republicans to
all intents and purposes, and to conclude that |
from the detection of last winter the Republi- |
cans have swollen their representation i'll the |
next House from eighty-five to hundred and
ten or twenty vOies.