Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-04
FIGURESON CONGRESS
Democrats Lay Claim to the Posses
sion of the Next House
BY A WORKING MAJORITY OF A.
A Net Gain of "a Members Expected From
twenty-five Different States.
REPUBLICANS DO NOT CONCEDE 1T
IFRoM STAFF ooRREspoN DENT. /

IFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDENT.
WASHINGTON, November 3-The very
latest information from the Congressional
districts OF the country leave loom for very
little, If any, doubt that the Fifty-second
Congress will have a decisive Democratic
majority in the House of Representatives.
The men at the headquarters of the Repu b.
! lican Congressional committee do not con-
cede this, but they have no figures that are
reliable to show otherwise, while the Demo-
Gratis have very convincing arithmetical
exhibit as ground work for the faith that
is in them. The fact is, that while the cam
paign management on the part of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee has been
| admirable and enthusiastic, it has not been
met with corresponding enthusiasm in the
Congressional districts by members of the
party. A very general conviction has been
evident that it would be pretty good poll
tics 10 let the Democrats have a majority in
the next House as, to quote an old saw, "The
Democrats can always be relied upon to
| make blunder when they are in the major
ity," and blunders by Democratic major
ity in the popular body of Congress would
be of greater advantage to the Republicans
in the Presidential campaign In 1892 than
Republican majority.
DEMOCRATS NOT AvERsE TO TRYING IT.
The work of the present Congress has been
mighty one in the initiation and enact,
ment of far-reaching, vital laws and poll
cies, and will be quoted in future cam
paigns with keen point against what will
necessarily be an inactive House, with a
Democratic majority contending against the
Republican majority of the Senate. But
the Democrats, while many of them
acknowledge the force of this proposition,
do not generally appear to be averse to try
ing anew the experiment of Democratic
majority in the House, and their most con-
servative authorities estimate this majority
at upward of 40 members. They claim they
will gain member in Alabama. Arkansas 1,
California l, Connecticut 2 Massachusetts
l, Iowa 2, Kansas 2, Kentucky 1, Maryland
2, Michigan 2, Missouri 2, Minnesota l,
New Hampshire 1, New York 2, North
Carolina 1, Ohio z, Pennsylvania 2, South
Carolina 1. Tennessee 1, Illinois l, Vir-
ginia 2, Wisconsin 1.
In Arkansas two Democrats were turned
out of this Congress on contests, and it
might be expected naturally that they
would both be returned, making a gain of
two from the way the delegation now stands
but it is feared that Mr.. Breckinridge is
going to be defeated. In Louisiana the
Democrats expect to defeat Coleman, but
they fear also that they are going to lose
one man, so no gain is counted there.
EXPECTED GAINS IN OTHER STATES.
A gain Of two and loss of one in Illinois
is expected by Illinois Democrats, making
a net gain OF one The Massachusetts
Democrats have expected a gain of two in
that State, but the illness of Andrew places
his district in doubt, and they therefore
lican, will probably be elected in North
Carolina, and in West Virginia there is
liable to be a stand-otf. The Democrats in
Virginia, New York and Iowa expect more
than they claim. Expectations from a rock
ribbed Republican State that Iowa is have
tO be discounted by the Democrats, but they
feel morally certain of gain of two there.
The Rhode Island Democrats expect to
elect member 1t appears from this that
the Democrats are liable to make gain of 81.
They will almost certainly lose two in Indi-
ana and one in Delaware. This would give
them net gain of 81 on these figures. The
Republicans gain two members which the
Democrats do not lose-one from Idaho and
one from Wyoming-lnaking the total men,
bership of the House 332 There are now
154 Democrats in the House. A net gain of
"a would give them 1SS in the next House.
This would be a majority of A.
LIGHTNER