The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-02-04
THE NEXT CONGRESS.

The next House of Representatives
will contain a good working majority
of Democrats, but the Republicans
are certain to control the Senate. In
the Forty-eighth Congress the Senate
stands SO Republicans, SO Demo-
Gratis, and 2 Readjusters. Twenty
five Senators go out on the 4th Of
next March, IA being Democrats,
and II Republicans. OF the II
Democratic seats, II will be filled
again by Senators of the same party
complexion. This includes Indiana,
in which the Legislature is Demo-
cratic, and will, therefore, elect a
Democratic successor to Voorhees,,
and Maryland, Louisiana, KEN
lucky and Ohio, in which Democra-
tic Senators have already been
chosen, viz. Wilson, Eustis, Black
burn and Payne. In Oregon the
Republicans will capture one seat by
choosing a successor to Senator
Slater. California, too, has been
swung out of the Democratic line,
and Senator Farley will give place
to a Republican. Those States in
which Republican Senators retire are
Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont
and Wisconsin. Good luck and
good management would have given
the Democrats the Legislatures of
three or four of these States, but
they have all been lost, with the
possible exception of Illinois. In
that State the Legislature is thought
to be tie on joint ballot, the Re-
publicans having one majority in the
Senate, and the Democrats one in
the House. There will be con-
tested seats in both Houses, and
each party will, probably, seek to
find pretexts for unseating suffi-
Gent number of opponents to give
itself majority on joint ballot. 1t
is impossible to predict the result of
such q struggle, and hence Illinois
must be left out of all calculations
on the next Senate. To sum up,
the Republicans will elect II new
Senators, the Democrats u, and one
seat is in doubt. Twenty-scven of
the present Republican Senators re-
tain their seats, and when they are
joined by II new ones, their party
will have a total Of 80, being clear
majority of 2. But the two Read
justers from Virginia may be eX-
pccted to continue to act with the
Republicans, making Al, with pos
sibility of obtaining one more in
Illinois. There are % hold-over
Democratic United States Senators
and II new ones, making total of
81, which will, of course, be 80, if
the party elects Senator. i'll Illinois.
There is no hope of seeing Demo-
cratic Senate before 1887. In that
year Republican Senators go out in
California, Connecticut, Indiana,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio and Virginia (Mahone), and if
the tidal wave that swept Cleveland
into Office has not retired by that
time, the Democrats may gain seats
enough to obtain control of the
Senate.
In the House of Representatives
of the Forty-ninth Congress, accord
ing to the figures of Edward Nc
Pherson, ex-Clerl of the House, the
Democrats will have 1872 members,
the Republicans al, and the Green;
hackers 2. This is a Democratic
majority of 40, against one of n in
the present House. There will be
fewer Republican Congressman from
the South in the next House than
there are in the present one. A
majority of 40 is as large as any
party need ask for, but the Repub'
lican Senate will be an obstruction
in the way of any comprehensive
plan of reform undertaken as party
measure. Especially by its prero
gative of giving or Withholding assent
when the President makes appoint
ments to office will the Senate pos
sess the power affecting the incoming
Administration. -AHa California.