The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-17
THE EXPECTATION.
Figuring on the Maj ority in
the House.
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~ ing News Items.
Complexion Of the House.


New YORK, November 16.-Wash-
ington special to the Post says: Gen.
eral Clark, clerk of the House, has
abandoned the claim that the Demo-
Gratis will certainly have majority. He
states it will be necessary to await of
fetal returns; that ell that can now be
said is the result is in doubt. One
leading subordinate official of General
Clark 8 office, who has all the informa-
ton as to the Democratic hopes which
General Clark himself has, says the of
fcials Of the House have abandoned
the expectation which they had few
days ago that the Democrats would
organize the House. The confidence
of Republican leaders is renewed,
aud they now claim that under no COM
binatiOn of circumstances will it be
possible for the clerk of the House to
refuse to put majority of Republicans
upon the roll of the House of the Fifty
Hfrst Congress. Chairman Quay claims
Is majority. The Post then gives the
latest figures on state delegations, and
shows the Republicans will have 166
members of the next House to 155 of
the Democrats.
The Mat and Express publishes a
similar table which shows the same re-
suit.
WASHINGTON, November Ex-senator
Quay, chairman of the Republican Ma
tlonal Committee, said to an Associated
Press reporter this afternoon that the
Republicans would certainly have con-
troll of the next House of Representa-
tiyes by a majority of five, and that
their majority might be nine. There
were several doubtful districts, the re-
suit in which would determine whether
their maj ority would be higher or lower.
Quay declined for the present to give
any particulars on which his figures
were based or what districts were still
regarded as doubtful.
WASHINGTON, November 16.-General
John b. ClMk, Jr., clerk of the House
of Representatives., believes that 100
Democratic Representatives have been
elected aud that
SIX DISTRICTS ARE IN DOUBT
"a West Virginia. The doubtful dis
4ffcts, in Clsrk's estimate, are the First
California, Tenth Kentucky, Second
North Carolina and First, Third and
Fourth of West Virginia. These dis
tricts be has classed as doubtful be-
cause they are claimed by both parties.
Their maiorities are so small that an
official count must be awaited to deter
mine the result. In the case of Repre-
sentative Bacon (Democrat) of New
York, who is reported to have been de-
feated by majority, General Clark ex-
poets q contest will ensue. OF one thing
he is confident, and that is that the
majority in the next House will not be
five either way. Relative to the func-
tons of the clerk in the
ORGANIZATION OF THE NEW HOUSE,
and the power he is supposed to be able
to exercise in seating or unsesting
members, General Clark says hi 8
duties are fixed by statute and surely
are ministerial. If the member-e elect
presents q proper certificate of election
his name will be placed on the roll,
and not otherwise. There cannot be
duplIca g certificates, because there are
at present no, dual State governments,
as there have been in times past in the
south. General CLARK said, from Oh
fetal records before him, the Republic
cans had elected
MAJORITY OF ONE
in the next House, and this was be-
cause up to the present time but one
certificate has been presented to him,
namely, that of Representative Her
man, VI Oregon. Certificates are usu-
ally long time coming, SIS they are not
issued until some time after the official
returns are made public. In the case
@5f Missouri, this does not take place
until January, and in many other
States the date is equally remote from
election day. The reduction claims of
both parties to very narrow majorities
of from three % i've or. six, suggest, in
teresting possiLil ties, when. it is re-
membered that no less than SIX per-
sons who were elected to the Fittieth |
Congress died either before they had
been sworn III or after they had taken
their seats. and there is strong prob
ability there will | g some deaths amor 6
the 325 men of mature years.