Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-08-20

No PARTY MAJORITY IN THE NEXT HOUSE OF
counting the gains of the late elections for
Congress, have discovered that there is not
enough votes held by either party to give it a
majority in the House of the next Congress.
Twenty eight States which have elected mem
bers of Congress have sent 140 Opposition and
rs Democrats. There are yet % to be elected,
of which probably 6 will be Opposition, and
lG Democrats, leaving majority of So forthe
Opposition. The Opposition now elected may
be classified as follows Republicans, 100 ;
Anti Lecompton Democrats, II North Ameri-
cans, 8; South Americans, 10. As it requires
1l9 for a majority of the House, no party will
have majority in the House. The Republic
cans will be numerically the strongest, but
will lack thirteen votes OF controlling the
House. The Republicans, Anti-LecOmpton
Democrats, and Northern Americans, if they
act together, will cast 127 votes. The Repub-
cans and Anti-Lecompton Democrats together
would cast just 1ls. This anamolous condi-
tion of affairs in politics bothers the party
politicians amazingly, and there will probably
be some hucksterng between them or coali-
ton to secure the desirable majority. But il
the calculations and expectations of the Balti-
more Patriot Opposition paper), arc correct,
this will not be so easily effected That paper
says;
II is pretty clear that this coalition (the
Republicans and Anti-Lecompton Democrats)
cannot be relied upon, for there are four in
Illinois, one in Indiana, one in New Jersey and
two in New York that may be set down as
impracticable while on the other hand, Min
nesota will probably send two Republicans and
California one, which would make the Repub-
lican strength, with the aid ofthe four Anti-Le-
compton Democrats, foot up lis, not enough
by four to control tho House. The only
chance, them is with the nine North Ameri-
cans. That four of these will go over, so as
to give the House to the Republicans, is not
to be relied upon. 1t is evident that the
American party proper will hold the balance
Ofpower in the organization of the next House
of Representatives.
1t is not an unusual occurrence to find a
legislative body 80 divided that no one party
has majority. But it is unusual to see one
so divided that no third party holds the bal
lance of power. It looks az il it might fire.
quently happen in the next Congress that
there must not only be a combination to
command majority, but there must be a
triple or quadruple one.
1t has all along been assumed that, in any
event, the Democrats would have a majority
of the State Delegations, so that they would
be able to elect their President should the
election be thrown into the House. In such
an election each State has but one vote, and
the candidate must be drawn from the three
highest on the ELECTORAL vote. But these late
elections put different complexion on the
ease. 1t looks as If the Democrats were not
sure of more than fourteen or fifteen States
whereas 1t takes seventeen for majority
This point lends additional interest and i'm
portance to the closely contested elections in
Minnesota, California and Maryland. Their
representatives. may possibly decide who shall
he President in 1860.