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

In the 49th Congress, March 4, 1885,
to March 4, 1887, there will be S25 Rep
resentatives. According to a list pub
lished by the New York Herald on
Saturday, these will be divided as fol-
lows: Democrats, 1856; Republicans,
1873; Peoples party,2. The Democratic
majority will be about 45. There is,
therefore, a considerable diminution of
Democratic strength, which was to be
expected, inasmuch as tidal wave swept
over the country when the members of
the 4Sth Congress we're elected and the
Democrats then made gains which they
could hardly expect to hold. The latest
dispatches, moreover, make some changes
in the relative strength of the two par
ties. rs
The whole of the Congressman elect
from California are Republicans, which
is a loss of six, but the Democrats gain
four in Indiana. In Iowa the Republic
cans gain two and in Michigan the DEM
ocrats, or Fusionists, gain two: The
Democrats gain, also, in Florida, Ala
bama, Virginia and North Carolina. It
will be some days before the results in all
the districts are determined, but the
Democrats are sure to have handsome
majority. 1t will be less than their
present majority, which was, indeed,
rather unwieldly, and, at times, a source
of embarrassment.
There will be a good many changes in
the composition of the House Of Repre-.
sentatiyes. The Democrats lose Frank
Hurd, of Ohio, the most aggressive tariff
reformer in that body. But it is COM
peasation to find that Mr.. Converse, who
is lust the reverse of Mr.. Hurd, is like.
wise defeated. On the other hand, MIR.
Morrison, pronounced tariff reformer,
is reelected, and Mr.. S. S. Cox, of New
York, who has been advocating tariff
revision for years and years, is reelected
by Is 900 majority.
1t is very evident that the people have
not turned their back upon the tariff
reformers, and the Democratic party is
pledged to revision of the tariff. R.
G. Horr, of Michigan, is happily beaten,
and so is the wretched Kellogg, Of
Louisiana. ]. 3. Belford, of Colorado,
"the redheaded rearer of the Rocky
Mountains" has returned to private life,
in company with the imaginative T. P.
Ochiltree, of Texas. Finerty, the
Chicago dynauiter, and Robinson, the
Brooklyn blatherskite, are left at home,
and ex-senator Eaton, of Connecticut.
and Gen. Rose n :rans, of California, wi
not be in the next House. The loss OF
the bitter Calkins, of Indiana, is a gain
to the cause of reform and good feeling.
Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, whose cour-
ageous words in the Chicago Convention
are,well remembered, is elected; and SO
is Gen. John G. Black, who was chair
man of the Illinois delegation. All the
old members of National reputation, we
believe, are elected, and w. D. Kelley,
Hiscock, Hewitt, Springer, Randall and
others will be found in their seats as
usual.
The next House of Representatives
will bea strong body, and from it the
country will have right to expect prac.
tical legislation, looking to areduction oil
expenditures and an alleviation of The
burdens upon the people. Something OF
the kind will probably be attempted this
winter, but we cannot expect much from
the 4Sth Congress which meeting in
December, will adjourn sine die on March
4th, day to be made forever memorable
by the inauguration of Grover Cleveland
as President Of the United States.