The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-13
The Next Honse of Representatives.

In the 49tb Congress, March i, 1885,
to March 4, 1887, there will be 325 Rep.
resentatives. According to list pub.
lished by the New York Herald on
Saturday, these will be divided as fol.
lows: Democrats, 1856; Republicans,
1888; Peoples party,2. The Democratic
majority will be about As. There is.
therefore, considerable d;mieu,;on os
Democratic strength, which was to be
expected, inasmuch as q tidal wave swept
over the country when the members of
the 48th Congress we're elected and the
Democrats then made gains which they
could hardly expect to hold. The latest
dispatches, moreover, make come changes
in the relative atrength Of the two par.
ties.
The whole Of the Congressman elect
from California are Republicans, which
is loss of six, but the Democrats gain
four in Indiana. In Iowa the Republi-
cans gain two aud in Michigan the Dem.
ocrats, or Fusiunists, gain two. The
Democrats gain, also. in Florida, Ala.
bana, Virginia and North Carolina. 1t
will be some duyn before the results in all
the districts are determined, but the
Democrats are sure to have q handsome
majority. 1t will be less than their
present majority, which waa, indeed.
rather unwieldly, and. Mt times, source
OF embarrassment.
There will be good many changes in
the composition Of the House of Repre-.
sentatives. The Democrats lose Frank
Hurd, of Ohio, the most aggressive tariff
reformer in that body. But it is n com.
pensation to find tha. Mr.. Converse, who
10 just the reverse of Mr.. Hurd, ia like.
wise defeated. On the other hand, Mr..
Morrison, pronounced tariff reformer,
is reelected, and Mr.. 8. 8. Cox, of New
York, who has been advocating tariff
revision for years and years, is re. elected
by 10, 900 majority. Fa
1t Ia very evident that the people have
not turned their back upon the tariff
reformers, and tho Democratic party ia
pledged to revision of the tariff. R.
G. Hosr, of Michigan, ia happily beaten,
and so Is the wretched Kellogg, cf
Louisiana. j. b. Belford,. Of Colorado.
'the redheaded Eearer of the Rocky
Mountains has returned to private life,
in company with the imaginative 7. p.
sOchiltree, off, Texas. Finerty, the
Chicago dynamiter. and Robinson, the
Brooklyn blatherskise, are left at homo,
aud ex-senator Eaton, of Connecticut,
and Gen: Roa n :rans, Of California, wi |
not bein the next House. Z The loss of
tho bitter Oalkins, Of Indiapa, is a gain
10 the causa of refoIc. Rud good feeling.
GenrBragg.j Of Wiaconsia, whose cour.
ageous words 10 the Chicago Convention
nreaWell remembered, Is elected !; and 80
ia Gen. John G. Black. who was chair.
man ofathe Illinois delegation. All the
old membsrs Of, National reputation, we
believe, are elected, aud w. d. Kelley,
Hiscock, Hewitt, Springer, R.adall and
others will be found &: =: ;neir seats as
! 1 The next House of Representatives
will hsa' stroDEsbody, and from it the
country WILL have . right to expect prac.
tical legislation, looking to G reduction of
expendituresa and en- alleyiation of the
burdens upon the people. Something of
the kind. will probably be attempted this
winter, but we cannot expect much from
aae ,48thN 4 Copgreas j, vhich meeting In
December, vii adj djonrn sine, die on March
Alb, q, day 10 he made forever memorable
by the Inauguration of Grover Cleveland
as President Of tSa United States.