The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-10

printed list of the mem mbers-elect of the
next house results in some interesting
figures and deductions. OF the 332 mem
bers there are 237 Democrats, eighty-seveu
Republicans and eight members of the
Farmers Alliance who will not 20 intC
either party caucus There are other
members in southern states who were
elected on the Alliance platform, but or
Democratic tickets, and they will vote or
all party questions with the Democrats
OF the forty-four states, no less than six
teen have solid Democratic delegations
and IN thirteen more the majority of the
delegation is Democratic. There are ten
states with solid Republican delegations
and two with Republican majorities. OI
the remaining three states. two have ALI
ance majorities, while in the one remain.
ing state, Minnesota, there are three Dem
ocrats, one Republican and one Alliance
man, so that the delegation on q vote is
Democratic. The Democrats control the
vote of thirty states, the Republicans OF
twelve, and the Alliance of two; total
forty-four. There are then sixteen solid
Democratic delegations and ten hepubli-
can.
The sixteen solid Democratic delegations
include a membership of 106; the solid Re-
publican delegations total mem bershil
of Is. The disparity lies in the fact that OF
the ten solid Republican delegations seven
of them are from new states. Colorado
Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota. Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming have one mem.
ber each who is Republican. BY these
states the Republicans control the senate.
There remain three solid states, of which
two South Dakota and Vermont, have two
members each, and the state of Maine,
with Messrs. Reed, Boutelle, Dingley and
Milliken, has a solid delegation of four.
These latter were elected, it will be re-
membered, a few months before the popu-
lar uprising The solid Democratic states
are big and substantial. Missouri alone
has IA, almost as many as the entire force
of the solid Republican commonwealths.
The others are Alabama, 6; Arkansas, 5;
Georgia, 10; Louisiana, 6; Maryland, 6;
Mississippi, z; South Carolina, z; Texas, II;
Virginia, 10; West Virginia, 4; besides
Florida, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island, with two each and one each from
Delaware and Montana.
In the 13 states where the Democrats
have majorities in the delegations there
are in all lis Democrats and AZ Republi-
cans, a net Democratic majority of 6S In
the Republican states there are % Re
publicans and 12 Democrats, a net ma
jority of 10 Here again the Democrats
control, with the exception of Pennsyl-
vania, all of the large delegations Tine
states stand: Illinois, IA to g; Indiana, II
to2; kentucky, 10 to /; Massachusetts, Z
to 5; Michigan, to 8; New York, % to II;
North Carolina, s to L; Ohio, II to z; Ten
nessee, 8 to .; Wisconsin, to l; Connect
cut, to I; Iowa, 6 to 5; New Jersey, 3 to 2.
The Republican delegations are Pennsyl-
vania IS to TO- and California to 2. OF
the remaining states there are In Kansas
5 Alliance men to Republicans, and in
Nebraska 2 Alliance men to / Democrat.
Giving the Alliance these two states,
while in Minnesota, as already stated,
there being Democrats, 1 Republican and
Alliance man, the control of the delega-
ton Is with the Democrats.
This is the way the house viii stand:
Democrats-Solid delegations, 16; ma
jority delegations, IA; total, 80.
Republicans-Solid delegations, 10; ma
jority delegations, 2; total, y
Alliance-Solid delegations, o; majority
delegations, 2; total. Q
On division by states on any question
therefore. the Democrats would carry the
vote by 80 to l2. or q majority of Is
1t is not out of the range of the possible
that such question may arise IN the next
house. That question would be the most
important in the history OF this country
IL would be the question Of the next presi-
dent of the United States. 1t seems almost
certain that the Farmers Alliance, or a
section of that organization. will place u
candidate for the presidency in the field
Who that man may be no one can guess
With the present strength of the Alliance
1t Is not impossible that the Alliance may
win electoral votes enough-not to elect
but to prevent either the Democratic or the
Republican candidates from obtaining a
majority of the electoral college In that
case the constitution, by article II, pro-
vides that the election shall be thrown in
TO the house of representatives. That
would mean the Fifty second congress, and
the full Importance of the fact that Demo
Gratis control thirty delegations ont of the
forty-four, Is seen when it is remem bered
that the constitution provides that the
vote shall be taken by states, and each
state, no matter how great or how small
its delegation, shall have one vote so that
If the Alliance should elect so many cleo
tors that neither the Republicans nor Dem
ocrats could cast majority vote of the
entire college, the next president would be
a Democrat.
On this vote all the states would meet
on common level, and the so, 900 whites,
blacks. half-breeds, mongrels. Chinese
and Indians of the Nevada mining camps
would be as powerful in electing a presi-
dent as the millions of Intelligent resi-
dents CT the states of New York, Pennsyl-
yania, Missouri Illinois, Ohio and Texas.
MIR. Bartine, of Nevada, would be as big a
man as Roswell 2. Flower and his thirty
three colleagues.
SO big Is the Democratic majority. even
on the unit vote by states, that they could
elect the president, even If not single
Republican was present. The constitu-
tion provides that there shall be present a
quorum consisting of a member or mem
bers from two-thirds of the states. so that
with their thirty states the Democrats :
could legitimstely elect the president
without the attendance of a single Repub-
lican.
The deep interest which both the Demo-
cratic and the Republican party take in
the Alliance entrance into the field of
national politics can therefore loo very
easily understood.
Still another feature presents itself in
case the Alliance should be able 10 throw
the presidential election into the house
There would then probably be a Demo
cratic president and a Republican vice
president, Tor the same article OF the con-
sttutlon which makes the house elect the
president throws the election of the vice
president into the senate But there is a
difference. In the first place the list of
eligibles for the vice-presidency is confined
TO the two names having the highest num-
Der Of votes cast for them IN the ELECTORAL
college. instead of three, as in the case
with the president. Hence in the present
senate, Messrs. Kyle and PETER. the \ l.
lance senators, would be compelled 10
vote for either the Democrat or the Repub-
lican.
Another important difference is that the
unit rule .or states does not hold In the
senate, for the constitution provides that
in electlng the vice president the quorum
for the purpose shall consist OF two-thirds
OF tie whole Dumber of senators and a
majority of the whole uumb ber of senator's