The Critic and record., 1891-05-11
THE NEXT HOUSE.
Thrown Into the House-p0rt Which
The Farmers Alliance VIII Play,

Chances Of the Election Of President Being
Thrown Into the House--P0rt Which
The Farmers Alliance VIII Play.
The printed list of the members elect of
the next House furnishes some interesting
figures and deductions says Louis Gartho
in the Baltimore dmerjcdn. The list is
unofficial, but it is accurate. OF the 332
members there are 237 Democrats, 81 Re
publicans and members of the Farmers
Alliance who will not 90 into either party
caucus. There are other members in
Southern States who were elected on the
Alliance platform, but they will vote on
party questions with the Democrats.
Glancing over the list by States it APP
pears that there are Of the i4 States no
less than lG with solid Democratic delega-
tiors, and Is more where the majority of
the delegation is Democratic. There are
10 States with solid Republican delega-
tions, and with Republican majorities.
OF the remaining 3 States, 2 have Alliance
maiorities, while in in the I remaining
State, Minnesota there are Democrats, 1
Republican and Alliance man, so that
the delegation on vote is Democratic.
Summing up, the Democrats control the
vote of so States, the Republicans u, the
Alliance 2-total "A.
There are then 1G solid Democratic dele
cations and 10 Republican. The 1G solid
Democratic delegations include men,
bership of log; the 10 solid Republican
delegations total membership of 10. The
frightful disparity hes in the fact that of
the 10 solid Republican delegations, of
them-Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, North
Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wyom-
ing-consist of member, who is a solid
Republican. There remains solid States,
of which 9, South Dakota and Vermont,
have members each, and the State of
Maine, with Messrs. Reed, Boutelle, Ding
ley and Milliken, form very solid dele
CATION of 4.
The solid Democratic States are appall-
ing Missouri alone has II; almost as
many as the entire force of the solid Re-
publicans. The others are Alabama 8,
Arkansas s. Georgia TO- Louisiana 6,
Maryland 6, Mississippi Z, South Carolina
I, Texas IL, Virginia 10, West Virginia t.
besides such odds and ends of scraps as 2
each from Florida, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, with l each from Della
ware and Montana, where the spirit is
willing, but the flesh is evidently weak.
III lDG lllIltel t0tdlGS WHERE llB DeiuO-
Gratis have maiorities in the delegations,
there are in all 115 Democrats and AZ Re-
publicans, q net majority of GO. In the
two Republican States there are % Re-
publicans and 10 Democrats, net ma
jority of 10. Here again, the Democrats
control, with the exception of Pennsyl-
vania, all of the large delegations, the
States standing Illinois, IA to G; Indiana,
II to .; Kentucky, 10 TO /; Massachusetts,
Z to 5; Michigan, to 3; New York, % to
IL North Carolina, to /; Ohio, If to 4
Tennessee, s to 2; Wisconsin, to ]; Con-
necticut, 3 to /; Iowa, 6 to 5; New Jersey,
3 to .. The Republican delegations are
Pennsylvania, Is to 10, California, to ?.
OF the remaining States there are in Kan
sas 3 Alliance men and Republicans, and
in Nebraska Alliance men and l Demo-
crat, giving the Alliance these two States;
while in Minnesota, as already stated
there being 3 Democrats, / Republican
and / Alliance man-the control of the
delegation is with the Democrats.
This, then, is summary:
Democrats.
Solid delegations. ...................... 1d
Majority delegations. s.................. II
Total, l.,.........,...... 10
Republican,.
| Solid delegation. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1C
Majority delegation. Observation-Disclosures.