The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-05-29
THE NEXT HOUSE.
An Interesting analysis OF ats Political
Composition.

The printed list OF the members elect
of the next House furnishes some inter-
esting figures and deductions, says Louis
Garthe in the Baltimore American. The
list is unofficial, but it is accurate. OF
the 332 members there are 237 Democrats,
81 Republicans and s members of the
Farmers Alliance who will not so into
either party caucus. There arc other
members in Southern States who were
elected on The Alliance platform, but they
will vote on party questions with the
Democrats.
CHANGING over the list by States it APP
pears that there are of the "A States no
less than ]G with solid Democratic dele
CATIONS, and - more where the majority
Of the delegation is Democratic. There
arc 10 States with solid Republican dele
cations. and 2with Republican najorities.
OF TIE remaining States, = have Alliance
majoritics, while in the remaining
State, Minnesota, there are } Democrats,
Republican and Alliance man, SO that
the delegation on 4 vote is Democratic.
Summing up, the Democrats control the
vote of 30 States, the Republicans II, the
Alliance :!-total H.
There are then Is solid Democratic dele
cations and 10 Republican. The 16 solid
Democratic delegations include Il member
ship of lGG; The 10 solid Republican dele
cations total membership Of Is. The
frightful disparity lies in the fact that of
the 10 solid Republican delegations, I of
them = Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Nofth
Dakota, Oregon. Washington and Wyom=
ing-consist of member, who is a SOLID
Republican, There remains asolid States,
of Which Q. South Dakota and Vermont,
have = members each, and the State of
Maine, with Messrs. Reed, Eoutclle, Ding
lev and Milliken, form Il very solid dele
CATION Of 4.
Tie solid Democratic States are appall-
ing Missouri alone has Il; almost us
muny as the entire force Of the solid, Re-
p.blicans. The others are Alabama s,
Arkansas 5, Georgia 10, Louisiana 8,
MARYLAND 6, Mississippi I, South Carolina
I, Texas II, Virginia 10, West Virginia !,
besides such odds and ends Of scraps as
each from FLORIDA, Gew Hampshire and
Rhode Island, with each from Delaware
and Montana, where TIE spirit is willing,
but the flesh is evidently weak.
In the thirteen States where the Demo
Gratis have maloriiies in the delegations,
! there arc in all ll5 Democrats and ~ Re-
publioans, a not majority of 6o. In the
two Republican States there are ~ Re
publicans and II Democrats, net major
ity of 10. Here, again, the Democrats
control, with he exception OF Penns77ii
vanla, all Of the large delegations, the
States standing: Illinois, II to 6;lnalana
II to 2; Kentucky. 10 to Massachu Sc
I to ); Michigan, 5 to ); New York 70 &c
II; North Carolina, 5 to /; Ohio, IA to {
Tennessee, to 2; Wisconsin, to !; Con-
necticut, to !; Iowa, 6 to 5>New Jersey
, to-. The Republican, delegations are
Pennsylvania, 1870 ldi California;, i to =
OF the remaining States there are IL
Kansas 5 Alliance men and 2 Republicans
and in Nebraska 2 Alliance men and
Democrat, giving the Alliance these two
| States. while in Minnesota, us aread,
statcd-there being Democrats, : Re
publican and | Alliance mantle con
troll of the delegation is with Democrats
This, then, is Il summary: