Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-19
that can be made,of the political complexion

that can be made Of the political complexion
of the next house: IN $685.
1..He j Union. d. Democrat.
Twenty -four northern
states have elected. ....!..a.... 140 ~ ~ Al
To elect northern states........ 81 sr,fg
Eleven southern statcsn a ~
nave elected .....................
To elect in eleven south l,,f.f q IN tit.ge
ern states........,............ At
Iotal...... .............. 100 0sstlflf iGFFA w
Union majority So in n house of 242 members
| tAsss...yt,. p lsENATE.l h ds gzs. i.
/ As. respects the Senate, - should the nine
southern and unreprescnted States all elect
Democrats, and shonId. they all be admitted.
that body would stand. fsos98 tjlI
Democrat ...""........ ..... .,.,...,..,,,... ~
Union majorty....... ..... ................. 20
In a leading EDITORIAL the Republican dis
cusses the political complexion of the next
Congress, We make the following extract:
In the Senate one seat is vacant, that of
Mr.. Harlan, now Secretary of the Interior,
and this is not likely to be filled until the
meeting of the Legislature of Iowa, which
takes place on the second Monday in Janua-
ry. twenty-five States are now represented
in the Senate, by thirty eight Unionists and
eleven Democrats Senators have also been
chosen by Virginia, Louisiana. Tennessee and
Arkansas, all unionists at the time of their
election but to what party they would now
attach themselves we have no means of know
ing. Nor can We tell whether these eight ap-
pllcants are Likely to be received into the Sem
ate. Six Of them sought in vain to be ad-
mitted into the last Congress. These we're.
Messrss Underwood and Segar, from Virginia;
Mcsars. Cutler and Smith, from Louisiana;
and Messrs. Baxter and Snow, from Arkan-
Isas. No vote was taken inthe Senate upon the
application of the members elect from either
Of these States but it was thought that ma
jority We're in favor of admitting the appli-
cants from Louisiana. The question upon
the gentlemen from Virginia was discussed a.
good deal, though not in connection with any
direct motion for their admission On the
one hand it was held that Congress was con-
cluded by its previous recognition of the State
government of Virginia, by which they were
sent while on the other hand, it was alleged,
thatthe legislature which elected them, was
"a body too smallin numbers, and chosenVby
Il district too limited to be allowed to- elect
Senators and perform the other functions of
Legislature. What will be the temper and the
Judgment of the Senate on this subject at its
next meeting it is out of.our power to predict.
In the house Of representatives there arc
three vacanies in the delegations of loyal
States, one caused 'hy the appointment of Mr.
Goocl of Massachusetts to the Office of sur
|veyorof the port of Boston, one by the ap-
pointment' of Mr. Webster of Maryland as
collector of Baltimore, and one by the fact
that the result of the election in Nevada has
not been heardlol; but all these vacancies
will soon be filled by loyal men of so-called
radical complexion, most probably Accord
ing to the party divisions that existed during
the war, the house now stands one hundred
and forty. s..s .7sas. set-,i,a