Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-12

With the election Of Gen. John NJ. Palmer to
the United States Senate once more arises the
question as to the political condition of the
body which has for its supreme official Vice
President Morton. Republicans now place
their majority at ten: doing so because they
believe that Kyle Of South Dakota and
cal vacancies caused by the departure
Of Moody and Ingalls,. The other Alliance
Senator. Mr.. Irby of South Carolina, will un-
doubtedly vote with the democrats on all
political matters. Two vacancies have yet to
be filled, but there can be no doubt as to the
results The successor to Senator Wilson of
Maryland will, Of course, be democrat, and it
is equally certain that he who succeeds the late
Senator Hearst of California will be a
republican. Gov. Jackson will appoint
the Maryland Senator and the California
legislature (now in session and overwhelm-
ingly republican, will take care of
some good republican leader. Unless there
should be other changes before December next
there will be forty-nine republicans and thirty
nine democrats in the Senate when it again as
sembles for business. 1t has been intimated
that Kyle and PETER would join Irby and the
democracy at critical periods. but that would
still leave the republicans with a majority of
six.
NEW MATERIAL IN THE NEXT CONGRESS.
The Fifty-Second Congress will have an i'm
mense amount of new material in it, and this
will be quite noticeable in the Senate. Though
some of the senatorial faces will be new in their
new capacity they will not all be unfamiliar.
DIR. Gallinger. who succeeds Mr.. Blair from
New Hampshire; Hansbrough of North Dakota.
who succeeds Pierce, and Dubois of Idaho.
who succeeds Mcconnell. have all been in
Congress, and Gallinger and Dubois. at least,
are well known locally
Gen. Gordon of Georgia succeeds "Joe"
Brown, but no one seems to have any definite
idea as to what the Senators course will be- He
recently joined the Farmers Alliance and in
all probability will be in continuously close
communion with Irby of South Carolina.
Although the republicans will have a clear
majority they are still sore over the capture of
three seats that have been republican for a
long time. The democrats who succeed repub-
hcans are Hill of New York, Palmer of Illinois
and Villas of Wisconsin; the vanquished being
respectively, Evarts, Farwell and Spooner.
But for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming
by the late Congress the democrats would have
both branches of the legislature in the next
Congress. Those new states did the work.
IMPORTANT LEGISLATURES TO DE ELECTED.
Upon the legislatures which will be elected
this fall very much depends. A number of
Senators go out on March 4. 1898. and to these
legislatures must they look for a verdict. Those
whose terms are out two years hence are
Blodgett of New Jersey, Bate of Tennessee,
Reagan of Texas, Daniel of Virginia, Faulkner
of West Virginia, GEay of Delaware, Pasco of
Florida, Turpie of Indiana, German of
Maryland, George of Mississippi and
Cockrell of Missouri, democrats; and
Hiscock of New York, Casey of North
Dakota, Sherman of Ohio. Quay of Pennsylva-
mia, Aldrich of Rhode Island. Edmunds of Ver-
mont, Allen of Washington, Sawyer of Wiscon-
sin, Warren of Wyoming, Shoup of Idaho, Haw-
Massachusetts,, Stockbridge of Michigan, Davis
of Minnesota, Sanders of Montana, Paddock Of
Nebraska, Stewart of Nevada, republicans, and
the Senator who will in a day or SO be elected
to succeed Hearst.