Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-08
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Areusts, wednesday Morning, August 8.
From the Philadelphia Press. ]
The New Senate.

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The New Senate.
with the filing Of the New Hampshire
vacancy, the Senate roll Of the Forty
eighth Congress was completed.
The whole number Of senators now on
the threshold OF new full term is twenty
six. OF these fifteen were in the last Sen
ate and have been reelected, and eleven
are entirely new to the upper branch OF
Congress. Of the reelected senators four
are republicans and eleven are democrats.
and of the new senator's eight are republi-
p. cans and two democrats. and one readjus-
ter. The democrats have lost two sena-
tors, one in Oregon and one in Virginia,
and they have gained one in Louisiana
The republicans have gained full-dedged
party senator instead of Senator Davis. oil
Illinois; they have gained senatorshlp
from the democrats in Oregon and lost one
in Louisiana. The readjuster party gain
one in Virginia. The new Senate consists
politically, of thirty-eight republicans.
thirty-six democrats and two readjusters.
OF the fourteen democratic Senators
whose terms expired with the last Con-
sress, ten we're reelected. This keeps in
the Senate not only such strong men as
Garland, Beck, Morgan and Lamar. but
such lesser luminaries as Salisbury, Nc
Pherson, Ransom, Butler, Coke and Har-
ris. There were but four democratic
Senator'S left at home, and in each case
with abundant reason. Grover OF Oregon,
was displaced by republican legislature.
and Johnston of Virginia. because his
party was in a minority against the COM
bined vote of the readjusters and republi-
cans in the legislature Of his State. Davis
of West Virginia, declined a reelection,
and Pope Barrow of Georgia, who served
the unexpired term of of Senator Hill.
was merely temporary selection to keep
the place warm for Governor Colquitt.
On the other hand, the terms of eleven
republican Senators expired on the Sd of
March and ten Of those Senators had re-
publican legislatures behind them and
eight were candidates for reelection. OF
these Frye, Plumb. Anthony and Hoar
were reelected, the last named escaping
defeat after sharp, close contest. Tabor
OF Colorado. and McDill of Iowa, may be
considered as ad interim Senators, whose
reelection was not expected, but Ferry,
nd Rn1t
PEELED against their will to give place to
men entirely unknown outside of the
limits of their own State.
The single notable addition of strength
in the republican membership, is James
F. Wilson. of Iowa. He has served with
distinction in the House of Representa-
tives, is public man OF high order of
ability and will be credit to the Senate
and to the State which has honored itself
by sending him there. Governor Cullom
of Illinois, who succeeds Senator Davis,
has also had legislative experience and
will make doubtless very respectable
Senator. Mr.. Pike. the new Senator from
New Hampshire, has seen service in the
House OF Representatives, but his name
nevertheless is about as new to the general
public outside his State as are the names
Of the other new republican Senators,
Palmer. of Michigan; Sabin. of Minneso-
Ia; Mannerson. of Nebraska; Bowen, of
Colorado; and Dolph. of Oregon. The
democrats have lost no Senator of mark,
except it be Davis. of West Virginia, who
has several times claimed public
attention on some particular issue
Of his own creation, In Gibson. OF
Louisiana, and Colquitt. of Georgia. the
democrats have received an accession of
considerable strength. while the renten-
ton of nearly all their old senators while
the republicans have been getting new
ones will make the the former relatively
stronger in the new Senate than in the
last in everything but votes.
The most serious republican loss is that
of Window. Of Minnesota, a Senator of
long experience. conservative. well
balanced and valuable in many ways.
The other republican Senators lett at home
could easily be improved upon. but ex-
cept in the case of the Iowa Senatorship,
1t Is yet to be demonstrated whether the
changes made are really an improvement.
Senators Hoar. Frye and Plumb. each of
whom Is a man OF aggressive ability and
strong. positive character. are continued
in the Senate. With them and Senators
Edmunds. Sherman, Hawley. Ingalls,.
Hale and Conger, who hold over. and the
new Senator Wilson, Of Iowa. the repub-
licans will retain that supremacy in the
Senate which they have held unbroken
for twenty two years.