Evening journal., 1888-12-31
FIFTY-FRST CONGRESS.
Certificates Issued TO a Repub-
lican Majority of Four.
THERE WILL BE MANY CONTESTS

The Next COmmlttea on Electione VIII
Haye Plenty of Work to Periorm-soms
Very Small HTajo.lties That Opponents
win Try to Overcome.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Clerk Clark, OF |
the house of Representatives, has received the |
certificates of $50 members-elect to the next |
house, and has been officially informed that |
certificates have been issued in tfn but three
congressional districts OF the certificates
issued le3 are to Republicans and 159 &c
Democrats, and Of those districts still In
doubt two of them are in West Virginia
and one in Tennessee. In all Of them the
Republican candidates claim majoritiqs on
the face Of the returns. However, should the
Democratic candidates get the certificates
their party will not have control, as the Re
publicnns viii still have a majority Of ono
and win organize the house. The question Is
y~aether IL will be one or seven. Several Re
publicans who are elected to the next house
are in uncertain health. Several whose
names IRE often mentioned are regarded as I
having a very uncertain tenure Of life.
Every indication OF III health on the part OF
a member Of the next house is regarded with
anxiety, and adds another argument to the
many advanced in favor Of an extra session.
This being the case the candidacy for the
spealership is becoming more heated every
day.
or the 1GS Republicans who have received
certificates Of elections, it is said that Mr.
Cannon has 40 pledged to vote for him; Mr.
Reed, SO; Mr. McKinly, %; Mr.. Burrows,
% There are 16 unpledged southern mem.
bers. The other rs members are scattered
between prospective candidates. There is no
telling for whom they win vote.
Up TO this time only one notice Of contest
has been filed in the office of the clerk of the
house This is the case Of Hartsuff against
Whiting, the latter being the sitting Demo-
cratic member OF the Seventh Michigan dis
trict There are twenty-one counts in his
indictment, and he charges that votes were
cast at wrong places, that aliens voted with
out restraint, that fraudulent naturalization
papers were issued, that illegal registratio )
was common, and that persons were com
PEELED to vote the Democratic ticket under
threats of personal injury. Mr.. Hartsuff
lays particular stress upon what be calls the
corruption fund.-
Quite a number of the cases arise out of
the narrow majorities received by some Of
the successful candidates. Such is the founda
ton of the contest made by Sydney r. Mudd
against Representative Barnes Compton, Of
the Fifth Maryland district, whose majority
has been placed as low as / vote In the
Fourth New Jersey district, Samuel Fowler
Dem), was elected by only 72 votes, and N.
w. Voorhees, will try to overcome this by
contest. Congressman Shively Dem.), Of
Indiana, was returned by still smaller
majority--less than 40 votes--and William
A. Hoyne, his Republican rival win en-.
deavor to secure the seat. As compared with
these efforts to overturn a few votes, the
% D.. ~. -
Memphis Tenn, to oust Congressman James
PheIan seems quite herculean. Mr.. Phelan
received 5000 majority. Charges Of fraud
will also be mnde by T. b. Posey, a Re
publican, who was defeated by William
y. Parrett in the First Indiana district
For the first time in many years q
contested election easel is reported from
Connecticut, where, in the Fourth district
Edward r. Seymour lDem) viii endeavor
to unseat Fred r. Miles lRep.). William
Elliott, Of Beaufort, s. CAwho had a con
tested case on his hands ing this congress
Is again to askQerienc same trouble
Othem ite interest are
aaa8z against Thomas
u @ California dis
defeated ''BiI'
n succumbed t
| addil, of Rich
with George d
snting the ThirC
larges fraud anC
#Blg list Of cases doe
ss est Virginia districts
4 III ~ certain to be contested.
lmmittee on elections will hav,
81 3 full and win be one Of the mos
ortant to be appointed by the successor
~ u Mr., Carlisle.
4.
@aS bEATH OF MRS GEN scHorIELD.
Tho wife Of Maj Gen. John M Sehofleld
ia command Of the army Of the Unite'
States, died yesterday at the Richmon'
flats in this city. Mrs, Schofleld has no
been in good health since her arrival i
Washington some months ago. The attac
Of illness which resulted In her death wal
however, unexpected. She had been suffer
ing from heart disease, complicated wit
nefvous trouble. Saturday night she had
severe attack, and three of the late Ger
Sheridan's physicians-Dr Yarrow, Surgeo
O'Reilly and DR.. Linooln--were called il
but they were unable to do anything for I'll
patient
Mrs. Schoheld was the daughter Of Pr
fessor Bartlett, formerly professor of phil
sophy at West Point Military academy. 81
was married at the time that Gen. Schofiel
then subordinate, was detailed as instrtct'
mt West Point The remains of Mrs Sch
field will be taken to West Point