St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-22
INTERESTING LEGISLATURES

III Is very rare tllat SO many leglS-
latureS are as close between the parties
and their action on matters of chief pc
lltical interest involved IN SO much
question as in those just elected. The
ones that have senators to elect attract
chief attention. Wisconsin has an en-
phatic majority of Democrats, and no
question is raised that the choice of the
party will be easily elected senator. In
New York the Republicans have the
senate and the Democrats the house,
and the latter have been conceded two
majority on joint ballot. In the early
times, when one branch was politically
opposed to the other, the minority in
the total sometimes refused to go into
joint ballot for an election. To relieve
this difficulty congress passed the bill
drawn by Senator TRUMBULL reQuir-
ing the legislatures to vote for
senator on the second Tuesday of
the session. This period in the
New York session will be one of the
points Of interest, particularly in view
of the doubt whether two of the New
York city Democrats, who are anti
Tammany, may refuse to vote for Gov.
HILL or man of his selection. They
are said to have voted frequently with
the Republicans in the last session. In
New Hampshire the Democrats have an
apparent majority, but the complica-
tions of the peculiar system in vogue
will be taken every advantage of by the
sharp Republican schemers, who have
control of all the machinery and the
courts. The clerk of the last house,
who makes up the roll, is Republican.
1t will be almost SurDriseif the Demo-
Gratis are allowed to name the success
or to the amiable BLAIR. In Illinois
the Republicans have the senate
and the Democrats the house !;
but, in the combined roundup,
the Republicans have 100, the
Democrats 101, and the farmers 3, Civ
ing the latter the control. A protracted
contest is quite probable, but If PALMER
is not elected no one probably will be,
and The seat remain vacant till the next
legislature meets. Kansas has a legis-
lature controlled by the Alliance, but it
is boosted that Senator INGALLS, has a
reach on enough of them to pull
through. The politicians in that state
have had peculiarities in the past and
have not entirely gotten rid of them. 1t
will be remembered that when INGALLS,
was elected that dramatic episod in
which Senator YORK paraded $4,000
alleged to have been paid him in the in
terest of PoMERoY, was the sensation
OF the time. There will be no historical
repetition. and INGALLS, will be left out
unless he has the benefit of some
Of the Kansas methods of getting
along in political matters. In all
these states it will be somewhat easier
to name the senator, and in some cases
his politics, late in January than at pres
ent. Several other states have close
legislatures, but no senators to elect.
Even in Massachusetts the Democrats
have half of the state senators, and in
Connecticut control one branch. Then
in South Dakota the Republicans have
counted out enough Democrats to make
the total eighty-three Republicans to
eighty-fve Democrats and Independ-
ents. That is uncomfortably close.
North Dakota, too, has mixed legisla-
ture as regards the senatorial question.
No other prediction is worth making
than that Senator PIERCE will be left
cut. Nebraska and Minnesota have
| miscellaneous legislatures, but no SEN
atorS to elect.