The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-09

From the ~ Y. Herald
Elections for members of Congress, men,
bers of State Legislatures, State and county
officers etc. came off in eighteen States yes
terday, viz.:-Alabama, Delaware, Florida, lii.
nois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Rhode
Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin. AL
together these elections embrace one hundred
and twenty-siX members of the next House of
Representatives. They will, therefore, with
the elections which have taken place IN Sep
tember and October, be very apt to deter
mine substantially the political complexion of
the popular branch of tho next Congress,
which succeeds the present Congress on the
fourth of March next.
What, then, are the results of yesterdays
elections in reference to the next Congress?
In the present House the Republicans have q
full two-thirds maj iority In the elections for
the next House, so far, they have lost nine
members In 1868 the all-absorbing excite
ments of the Presidential contest brought out
in all the State elections a very full vote, upon
which the Republicans always gain; but this
year the rule has been short popular vote,
upon which the Democrats always gain; and
as q short vote was the general rule in yester-
days elections the Democrats have doubtless
made some further gains in congressman to
crow over. 1t is also probable, however,
that they will have some losses to deplore
on account of the first Introduction in several
States of the new element under the fifteenth
amendment, known as the colored vote.
New York, in the lower house of the pre-
sent Congress, is represented by nineteen
Republicans and twelve Democrats. We
suspect that yesterday the Democrats in this
State gained two or three members. and un-
less the rural districts have polled pretty full
vote they may gain four or five. In New
Jersey however, where the State is closely
divided and sharply contested, appa-
rently, the new cOlored element may turn the
scale, and give the Republicans the gain of
one or two Congressman. The same may be
said of Delaware, where the black voters are
believed to hold the balance of power, and of
Maryland, where thirty five thousand blacks
have been registered for the election. The
conservatives, however, expect TO gain a
member or two in Alabama where the blacks
number fifty-tiye per cent. Of the voting pOpu-
lation, and in Tennessee the Republicans,
from the extension of the franchise to the
whites dsfranchised in 1868, and from fac
tious divisions, are in a pretty fair way to
lose the whole delegation of eight members,
which they hold unbroken in the present
House. On the other hand, again. the Re-
publicans may gain member or two in Ken
tucky from the acquisition of the black
element, which is supposed to be equal to
forty thousand voters in the State against O
Democratic white majority of from fifty to
sixty thousand.
In Missouri, where the Republican party
has been split up between two factions and
two tickets, they viii, we think, lose two or
three Congressmen, and may lose four or
five. They will be doing very we'll to hold
their own in Illinois, and very we'll if they
escape without a break in their delegation
from Michigan. From present indications
the Congressional results in the rest of the
eighteen States which elected their members
yesterday will show no material changes. The
most enthusiastic Democrats do not expect
much Congressional assistance from such
strong Republican States as Massachusetts,,
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota Looking
over the whole field and giving the Demo-
Gratis the full benefit of possibilities, from
present appearances they cannot reduce the
Republican majority in the next House of
Representatives below twenty, and in the
chapter of chances the dominant party may
still hold majority of thirty, thirty-fve, OF
forty in a full house.
But the two-thrds vote, which the Repub-
licans, SO fortunately for their policy, held in
the House, as well as in the Senate, during
the whole term of Andy JohnSons bellicose
administration, will be 50 far gone in the
next House that the Presidents veto will be
effective in the new Congress against mea
sures which he does not approve. He will,
with his veto, in the next Congress be more
decisiYely than in this master of the situa.
ton, and may shape the measures of Con
gress to meet his own views Of the domestic
and foreign policy of the Government best
adapted to the circumstances and the public
opinion of the day. We think the country.
the administration and the Republican party
itself may be congratulated upon this restora
ton of the President to his proper position as
a constitutional check upon the extravagances
and loose legislation of Congress. 1t may be
said that but for the tw0-thirds vote which
the Republicans held in Congress during al
the intractable and dangerous administration
of johnson, the late Rebel States would e
this day have remained in a state of chaos
and the agitation for negro suffrage woulC
still have been the ruling question in all ou
political elections, and that political confu
sion and financial embarrassment would hav,
prevailed throughout the land, with no bette
lookout than general collapse, bankruptcy
and reputation.
Had the veto under Johnson been effectiy,
we might, perhaps, have Lad some such dis
astrous consequences as these; but, on tn
other hand, we have seen in the stupendou
Congressional lobby jobs of the last four 0
five years that there is no limit to the rapa
cious legislation of an unbridled Congress
with the temptations before it, for instance
of great speculative railway combinations
Hencsforth, with the check of the President
veto upon such loose and reckless lobb
schemes, we may confidently look also fo
better things. We may look also 70
better things in the financial measures of tn
next Congress, with its reduced Republican
majority, than we have had from tn
present Congress, with its overshadowiu
majority We expect that the President