The Russellville Democrat., 1891-05-21
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Interesting Deductions from the
 List of Members-Elect.


 figures and deductions. The list t unofficial but accurate. Of the 33s members there are 237 Democrats ST Republicans, and s members o the Farmers Alliance who will moi go into either party caucus. There are other members in Southern States who were elected on the Al lance platform, but on Democratic tickets, and they will vote on all par ty questions with the Democrats Cleaning the list by States 1t ap pears that there are of the A States no less than 16 with solid Democrat ic delegations and 13 more where the majority of the delegation is Democratic. There are 10 states with solid Republican delegations and } with Republican majorities. Of the remalng States ? have Al lance majorities, while in the l re maining State, Minnesota, there are 3 democrats, Republican and Al, liance man, so that the delegation on vote is Democratic. Summing up, the Democrats control the vote of 30 States, the Republican of IF, the Alliance of ?; total, A. There are, then, 16 solid Democratic dele gations and 10 Republican.
 ANALYSTS OF THE FIGURES.
 The Is solid Democratic delega- tions include mem bership of l06; the solid Republican delegation a total membership of 10. The fright ful disparity lies in the fact that ef the 10 solid Republican delegations z of them are mining camps, or Re publican emergency States. Col orado, Idaho, Nevada, North Dako- ta, Oregon, Washington and Wy omlng have l member each who is a solid Republican. By these States the Republicans control the Senate. There remain 3 solid States, of which 2, South Dakota and Vermont, have ? members each and the State of Maine, with Messrs. Reed, Boutelle, Dinglev and Milliken, has solid delegation of 4. These latter were elected, it will be remembered, a few months before the popular uprising. The solid Democratic States are big and substantial. Missouri alone has IA, almost as many as the entire force of the solid Republican com monwealths. The others are Ala bama, 8; Arkansas, ,; Georgia, 10; Louisiana, s; Maryland, $; Mlssiss- ippi, ', South Carolina, [, Texas, II; Virgina, 10; West Virginia, 4; besides such picklngs as Florida, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, with ? each, and each from Dele ware and Montana, where the Repub- lican spirit was willing, but the flesh is evidently weak.
 In the I3 States where the Demo crats have majorities in the delega- tions there are in all 1I5 Democrats and AT Republicans, net Democrat ic majority of 6S. In the 2 Republi- can states there are P Republicans and 12 Democrats, net majority ol 10. Here again the Democrats con- trol. with the exception of Penn sylvania, all of the large delegations The States stand: Illinois, 4 to 6; Indiana, II to ?; Kentucky, 10 to 1 Massachusetts, ' to 5; Michigan. s to 3; New York, 23 to II; North Carolina, 8 to l.; Ohio, IA to '; Ten nessee, to ?; Wisconsin, s to 1; Connecticut, to 1; Iowa, 6 to 3; New Jersey, 3 to ?. The Republi can delegations are Pennsylvania, Is to 10, and California, 4 to 7. Of the remaining States there are in Kan sas Alliance men to ? Republicans and in Nebraska , Alliance men to Democrat. Giving the Alliance these 2 States, while in Minnesota as already stated, there being 2 Democrats, l Republican and Al lance man, the control of the dele gation is with the Democrats.
 A POSSIBLE QUESTION.
 This is the way the House vii stand:
 Democrats Solid delegations, l6 majority delegations. IA, total, 30.
 Republican--Soli delegations, 10 majority delegations, ?, total, 12.
 Alliance-Solld delegations, 0 majority delegations, ?; total, 2. On division by States on any question, therefore, the Democrats would carry the vote by 30 to l2, o a majority Of IS.
 It is not out of the range of th' possible that such q question may arise in the next House. That ques ton would be the most important il the history of this country. It would be the question of the next Presiden of the United States. It seems al most certain that the Farmers Al lance, or section of that organiza ton, will place candidate for th' ! Presidency in the field. Who tha man may be no one can guess. ! certainly can be Senator Stanford o California if he wants it. With th' present strength of the Alliance ane Senator Stanford's enormous attrib utes for an energetic campaign, 1t Il not impossible that the Alliance may win electoral votes enougb-not t' elect Senator Stanford, but to pre- vent either the Democratic or th' Republican candidate from obtaln ing a majority of the Electoral Col lege. In that case the Constitution by article l2, provides that the cleo tion shall be thrown into the Hous of Representatives. That would mean the Fifty second Congress, ant