The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-21
Tho Antj.Rcsumption Vote.

presented on the same general question in
the last Congress. Heretofore the House OF
Representative has divided upon the sub
ect mainly upon geographical lines; but now
the division is quite as emphatically upon
party lines rs upon geographical sections.
Mondays vote of one hundred and twelve
members, recorded in favor of the Holman
resolution, has two very prominent charac-
| teristcs. Out of the 1l2 votes, 102 were
cast by Democratic members, by Inde-
pendents, and only by Republicans. This
| is the prominent party feature. The other
is this, that out of the same II 2 votes 95 are
from that part of the country which lies
westward of the Ohio river and south of the
States of Delaware and Maryland. Only 1G
of the 1l2 are north of Virginia and east Of
West Virginia, and of these l6 there are nc
less than IL in Pennsylvania. North and
east of Pennsylvania there are but three
votes for the resolution, viz, one in each OF
the States of New Jersey, New York and
Connecticut These particulars make up the
prominent geographical feature.
| Outside of this general geographical view
there are some other interesting particulars
North of Virginia and east of West Virgin
ia, the House of Representatives contains
l02 votes of all parties, and of these only 1G
were given for the resolution. This takes
us down to the Virginia line on the Allan.
tic coast Below this there is a pretty solid
vote in favor of the resolution, in Virginia
North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama
Even more solidly against it are the States
of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida
Louisiana and Texas Glancing from the
South to the West we find that out of 9j
Southern and Western votes cast in favor
| of the resolution, no less than 61 ofthem
came from the Western States and middle
Mississippi Valley and that all but five OF
these came from Ohio Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, CHASING
the last two in the West, where they belong,
as distinct from the Atlantic seaboard South
ern States. Again taking the 95 Southern
and Western votes in favor of the resolution
we find that 81 of them come from ten States
| only, but which ten States are massed to-
gether compactly on the map right across
the centre of the Southern and Western
States from Virginia to Missouri, and from
Georgia 10 Lakes Erie and Michigan. These
ten States cast the following number of votes
in favor of the resolution: Virginia 8,
North Carolina Z, Georgia T. Alabama 6,
rnnnoc,aa Lynp,ro1.,, l..
10 g., Illinois s, and Missouri lin all, 81
out of the 112.
In the following fifteen States the resolu-
ton did not get a single vote: Maine New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massa-
chusetts, Delaware, South Carolina, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nevada, and Oregon; and in six
other States it got but one vote each, viz:
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, Wisconsin and California.
With respect to the party aspect of the
case it has already been mentioned that lO2
out of the 1l2 votes were Democratic, but
these were largely influenced by the geo.
graphy of the homes of the members. OF
the 25 Democratic votes in the House from
the eight States north and east of Pennsyl-
yania, only were thrown for the Holman
repeal of the specie resumption act; and of
the 40 Democratic votes north and east of
Virginia and West Virgania, only l6 were
cast in its favor. But in the South and West
with the single exception of Texas, all the
States having strong Democratic delegations
cast nearly solid Democratic vote for the
resolution. This is particularly noticeable
in the State of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama-,their De-
mocratic votes making 7S out of the 1O2
from that party. Ifto these are added the
L Democratic votes from Pennsylvania, they
make so Democratic votes from eleven States
out of the total Of lO2 which that party cast
for the resolution. The other thirteen were
widely scattered, Thus the present division
of the House had two well defined lines:
the one being bounded by party, and the
other limited to geographical sections.-Phu-
adelphia Ledger.