The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-11-25
The New senate.

The new senate has some peculiar fea-
lures Including the four Senators who
were reelected II contains twenty-five new
members. The four who were reelected
nrc THURMAN ana BAYARD, Democrats,
and HANLIN and EDMUNDs, Republicans.
Tho other twenty-one are new men-an
unusual number.
Among the most conspicuous OF those
who disappear are SUMNER-if it be proper
to include HIM in the list-SCHURz, CAR
PENrER. FENruN, SCoTr, PRATT, STEWART,
BUCKtNGHAM, and CHANDLER, Republic
cans, with STOCKTON and HAMILTON, Dem
ocrnts. SUMMERS seat. after having been
temporarily occupied ny WAsnBVRN, per-
mancntly falls 60 DAWES. SCHURz Is sue
cccdcd by CocKHEfI, who was a general i'll
the Confederate army lie is an imagina-
tive orator, and in depth and brlliancy viii
not compare with his predecessor. CAM
EROS of Wisconsin. who takes the place of
CARPENTER. is understood to I've u man or
some mark. hut us q lawyer aud debater
he will not take rank with the man whom
he badly beat i'm the Legislature. HERMAN,
the successor of FENroN, is among the fore
most members Of the bar IN the interior OF
this state. WALLACE. who fills SCoTr's
chair, is an acute politician of the Pcnnsyl-
wanna type. MCDoNALp, who displaces
Pratt. Is one of the ablest Democrats In
Indiana. STEWART 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 Jack CHANDLER,
was Chief Justice of Michigan when elect
ed. and is II learned lawyer. RANDOLPH,
who follows STOCKTON, Is II man OF about
the same caliber, while the successor OF
HAMILTON is WHITE who has been Gov
ernor of Maryland, and is the grandson of
the famous WILLIAM PINKNEY, 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 Sena-
tors of much mark are MCMILLAN of Min
nesota, who has been Chief Justice of that
state; WITHERs of Virginia, who was
general in the Confederate army, and since
that time Lieutenaut-G overnor BURN
SIDE, n mujor-geneIal OF volunteers. and
Island; and BooTH, recently Governor of
California. largely engaged in commercial
pursuits on the Pacific coast, and holding
an independent position in politics.
In the last Senate the Republicans had
hfty-three members, including SCHrRz,
FENToN, and HAMILTON OF Texas, who. at
one time, counted rs Liberals. The Demo
Gratis had twenty members, including TIP
TON Of Nebraska, who was formerly Lib
eInl. This gave the Republicans thirty
three majority, with one vacancy in Louis
lana.
In the present senate the Republicans
have forty-three members, and the Demo-
Gratis will have twenty-nine as soon as the
seat of FERRY OF Connecticut, Just de-
ceased, is filled, giving the Republicans a
majority Of fourteen, Gov. BooTH standing
as an Independent, and the vacancy in
Louisiana still continuing.
An interesting question arises in regard
TO the future. At the close OF GRANTS
administration on the 4th of March, 1877,
the terms of twenty-six members Of the
present Senate will expire. Now, Judging
from the elections of last year and this
| year, the Democrats will gam Ave Of the
seats now held by the Republicans, which
will be equal to "A Democratic net gain OF
ten. If the Democrats can in the mean
time fill the Louisiana vacancy, this will
give them gain OF eleven, and thus re-
duce the Republican majority of fourteen
IN the present Senate down to II majority
of lhree 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
! Admins tration.