The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-11-16
the NEXT HOUSE.
special Dispatch 10 the Globs Democrat.

WAsHIx0rON, Nov. 1.-THE cleo.
ton returns, 50 far ~ published, are
sufficiently complete and accurate to
indicate the mske-up Of the next
House Of Representatives II Is inter.
eating to observe the thorough shak-
ing up that body has undergone. The
members Of the next Congress will
consist largely Of new men, Of the SIS
there being l7s, or more than one-hsli
who are not meinbers Of the present
House. Two Of these have served
in the United States Senate, and half
Q dozen or 30 have been member In
previous Congresses. From the pres
ent returns 1t appears that Of the
members Of the present House sixty
seven Republicans are elected and
seventy.three Democrats. The Re
publicans will miss the presence of
Page, Aldrich. Orth, McC0rd. White.
Of Kentucky, Crapo, Jay. Hubbell,
Dunnell, R0beson, McCOok, Crowley.
Young. Butterworth, Amos. Town
send, Ward, Moore Of Tennessee, and
Pound. The Democratic side Of the
House will scarcely be recognizable.
Among the familiar faces missing
will be those of Phelps. Alexander
H. Stephens, Speer, the Singletons,
Sparks, Proctor. Knott, Gibson, Ladd,
Murch, McLane. Manning. Hooker,
Bland, Miles. Ross, Hardenbergh,
Bliss, Ben Wood. Flower, KlOtz,
Whitthorne, Atkins, Jones. Of Texas,
Ben Wilson and Gen. Bragg. In
nearly all the committees about half
the members have been carried away
by the flood. OF the fifty-seven
twenty.three have been reelected.
Some OF the thirty-four not reelected
were not renominated, and the re-
mainder were beaten at the polls.
Among the chairinen who will retire
to private life are the following Page.
of the commerce committee Grape.
banking and currency; Williams. Of
the foreign affairs; Pound. public
lands; Burrows. territories; Town.
send, Of Ohio. railways and canals;
Van Voorhees,, mines and mining
Shellenberger. public buildings;
HazeltOn, Pacific Railroads; Young.
patents; Crowley, claims; Pachec0.
private land claims; Neal, District Of
Columbia Orth, civil service reform.
Messrs Kelley. Calkins, Hiscock.
Reed. Bingham. Haskell and Brown,
chairmen Uf the committee on ways
and means, elections, appropriations.
judiciary, pOstOflices, Indian affairs
aud pensions, In the order named,
were preserved aud with them the
chairnIen Of sixteen other committees.
some of them merely ornamental.
OF the eleven members of the com
mittee ON civil service reform, there
have been reelected only Nessrs.
KassOn aud Horr. Republicans, ami
Tucker and Curtin, Democrats only
five Of the twelve members OF the
Indian affairs committee, and only
four Of the members Of the committee
on banking and currency. The COM
merce, ways and means anu appro-
priatiOns committees were more for.
tunate. Seven Of the fifteen in the
first named will survive. Mr.. Kelly
will be accompanied in the next Con-
Rress by eight Of his twelve fellow
members Of the ways aud means com.
mittee, and only five OF the fifteen
members Of the committee Oh ap-
preparations will retire from public
life. Among the prominent Repub
licau members Of the recent House
who will be In the next are Speaker
N ItIcI, SoihIos, anu DToN IL, vi Auui-
ana; Waite, Of Connecticut Hen
derson sud Cannon, of Illinois kss-
son, of Iowa Anderson. Haskell and
Ryan. of Kansas Reed aud Dingley.
of Maine; Rice and Robinson. Of
Massachusetts Horr, Of Michigan !;
washburn and Strait, Of Minnesota
Mckinley and Taylor, ofSOhio Bing.
ham, O'Neil, Miller, Kelley and
Blaine, of Pennsylvania; Hiscock
and Ketcham, Of New York; and
Lynch, Of Mississippi. OF the
Democrats there will be Randall, Of
Pennsylvania Rosecrans, Of Cali
fornia; Hammond and Blount.
Of Georgia; Springer, Morrison
and Townsend Of Illinois, Holman
and Cobb Of Indiana, Carlisle, Black.
burn and Thompson Of Kentucky,
Morse Of Massachusetts,, Tucker of
Virginia, Mills and Reagan of Texas,
Kenna Of West Virginia, Deuster of
Wisconsin, Robinson, Cox and Hew-
lit Of New York, Ben LeFevre of
Ohio, aud Governor Curtin of Penn.
sylvania. The Democrats In the next
house will control twenty-five States.
% that the action of the house could
easily be predicted II the people should
fall to elect . president and II should
become the duty Ofthe house to choose