The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-16
The New Senate.
New York SUM- !


The new Senate has some peculiar fea-
lures. Including the four Senator'S
who were reelected, it contains twenty
five new members. The four who were
reelected are Thurman and Bayard,
Democrats, and Hamlin and Edmunds,
Republicans. The other twenty-one are
new men-an unusual number. Among
the most conspicuous of those who disap-
pear are Sumner-if it be proper to in
clude him in the list-Schurz, Carpenter,
Fenton, Scott, Pratt, Stewart, Bucking-
ham and Chandler, Republicans, with
Stockton and Hamilton, Democrats.
summers seat, after having been tempo
rarily occupied by Washburn, perman-
emily falls to Dawes. Schurz is succeeded
| by Cockrell, who was a General in the
Confederate army. He is an imaginative
orator, but in depth and brilliancy will
not compare with his predecessor. Cam
erOn, of Wisconsin, who takes the place OF
Carpenter, is understood to be man of
some mark, but as a lawyer and de-
batter he will not take rank with the
man whom he badly beat in the Legisla-
ture. Herman, the successor of Fenton,
! is among the foremost members of the
bar in the interior of this State. Wallace,
who fills Scott's chair, is an acute poll
tician of the Pennsylvania type. Nc
Donald, who displaces Pratt, is one of
the ablest Democrats in Indiana. Stew
art makes way for Sharon, the rich
miner, who lives in San Francisco, but
represents Nevada as rotten borough.
Eaton, who takes the vacant seat OF
Buckingham, has long stood at the head
of the Connecticut Democracy. Chris
tiancy, who drove out lack Chandler,
was Chiei-J ustice of Michigan when
elected, and is learned lawyer. Ran
dolph, who follows Stockton, is man OF
about the same caliber, while the succ .s-
sor of Hamilton is Whyte, who has been
Governor of Mary land, and the grandson
of the celebrated William Pinckney, one
of the great men of the last generation.
Upon the whole, perhaps the eleven
new Senators make good the places of
their predecessors. The only other new
Senators of much mark are Mcmillan,
of Minnesota, who has been ChiefJustice
of that State; Withers, of Virginia, who
was a General in the Confederate army,
and since that time Lieutenant-G Governor;
Burnside, Major General of Volunteers,
and for two or three terms Governor of
Rhode Island; and Booth, recently Gov
ernor of California, largely engaged in
commercial pursuits on the Pacific coast,
and holding an independent position in
politics. ,rsE. Si-2
In the last Senate the Republicans had
fifty-three members including Schurz,
Fenton, and Hamilton, of Texas, who
at one time counted as Liberals. The
Democrats had twenty members, includ-
ing Upton, of Nebraska, who was for
merly Liberal. This gave the Repub-
licans thirty-three majority, with one
vacancy in Louisiana.
In the present Senate the Republicans
have forty-three members, and the Dem
ocrats will have twenty-nine as soon as
the seat of Ferry, of Connecticut. just
deceased, is filled, giving the Republic
ans majority of fourteen, Governor
Booth standing as an independent, and
the vacancy in Louisiana still continu-
ing.
An interesting question arises in re-
gard to the future. At the close oi
Grants Administration on the 4th ol
March, 1877, the terms of twenty-six
members of the present Senate will ex-
pire. Now, Judging from the elections
of last year and this year, the Democrats
will gain five of the seats now held by
the Republicans, which will be equal to
Democratic net gain of ten. If the
Democrats can in the meantime fill the
Louisiana vacancy, this will give them a
gain of eleven, and thus reduce the Re.
publican majority of fourteen in the
present Senate down to majority oi
three in the next. But the results OF
the Presidential election may materially
change these calculations concerning the
Senate which will come in with the new
Administration.
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