Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-20
THE NEXT HOUSE.
DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH IN THB POPULAR
BRANCH OF CONGRESS.
The Party Dslsgafns-Maority Of Individuals AZ
and b. States Is slecrOn Of the Next Presi-
den. Nay be Thrown Into the House.
Republicans VIII 30 Lonely.

every one knows but the full extent of
the power of that majority, either on a
call of the yeas and nays or in the unit
vote by States, as In failure OF the
Electoral College % choose President
is NOT known even TO all well-informed
Democrats. The printed list OF the
members elect is Instructive.
There will 0e 332 members, OF whom
237 are Democrats, eighty-Seven Repuo-
leans and eight members OF the Far
merS' 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.
CHANGING over the list of States it APP
pears that there are OF the fOrty-fOOr
States 40 less than sixteen with solid
Democratic delegations, and fourteen
more where the ma iority of the delega-
tiOn is Democratic There are ten
States with solid Republican delega-
tion aud two with Republican majOri-
ties. The two remaining States have
Alliance mai0rities. Summing mp, the
Democrats control the vote OF thirty
States. the Republicans Is, the Alliance
.. Total, AZ.
REPUBLICAN DELEGATIONS SMALL.
There are then 16 solid Democratic
delegations and 10 Republican. The Is
solid Democratic delegations iRclude
membership OF 100; the 10 solid Repub-
Hcau delegations a total membership of
-. The lrighufui disparity lies in the
fact that of the 10 solid Republican
81. G,1 do ~
Nevada. North Dakota, Oregon, Wash
ingtou and Wyoming Of one
member. who is q solid Republican.
There remains solid States, OF which
., South Dakota and Vermont, have
members each. and the State of Maine,
with MeSsrS. Reed, Boutelle, Dingley
and Millisen, has "a very solid delega-
tion OF (.
The solid Democratic States are APP
paliing Missouri alone has IA; almost
As many as the entire force of the solid
Republicans The others are Alabama
:. Arkansas ;, Georgia 10, LOUISIANA 6,
Maryland g, Mississippi :, South Caro-
lima =. Texas II, Virginia 10, West Nir-
ginia Z. besides such odds and ends of
scraps as each from Florida, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island, with l
each from Delaware and Montana.
where ,he spirit is willing but the fash
is evidently week.
In the thirteen States were the Demo
Gratis have maiOritieS in the delegations,
there are iu an ll5 Democrats aud T.
Rerulicaus. net majority of IS. In
the TWO Republican States there are -
Republicans and L. Democrats, 4 net
majority of lO.
CONGRESS MAY CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT.
Oaa division by States on any QueS-
ton. therefore. tine Democrats would
carry the vote by go 10 10, or MAORI
tv0flS Ic is not oUt o. the range Of
the possible thar such question may
arise u Gle next House. That question
would be- the most important in the his
tory Of this country. IL would be the
question of Tue next President of the
United States. IL seems almost certain
that the Farmers Alliance will place
q candidate for the Presidency in the
field. Who that may De 70 one can
guess 1t certainly can be Senator
stanford. of California, If he wants il.
With the present strength Of the Al
lance and Senator StInfOrd'S enormous
abilities for an energetic campaign, il
wiz electoral votes enough 10 prevent
either the Democratic or Republican
candidates from obtaining the majority
of the Electoral College necessary for
election. In that ease, the Constitution,
by article 70, provides that the election
shall be thrown into the House of Rep
reSeutatives then sitting. That would
be the Fifty-Sec0nd Congress.
DEMOCRATIC COMFORT.
The fall importance Of the fact that
the Democrats control thirty delegations
out OF fOrty-f0ur. is seen when il is re-
membered that the Constitution pro-
videS that the vote shall be taken by
States. and each state, no matter how
great or how small It's delegation, shall
have one vote. So that if the Alliance
should elect SO many electors that
neither the Republicans nor the Demo
crats could cast a majority vote of the
entire college, the next President would
be a Democrat. So big is the Democratic
majority. even on the unit vote by
States. THAI they could elect the Presi-
dent. even il not single Republican
was present.
The Constitution provides that there
shall be present quorum consisting of
a member or members from twO-thirdS
OF the state, 50 th1t, with their thirty
States, the Democrats could leCitl-
mate,y elect the President without the
attendance of single Republican.
SOME EEPUUuCAN COMFORT ALSO.
Still another feature presents itself i'm
ease The Alliance throws the vote into
the House. There would then probably
be Democratic President and a Re-
publican Vice President. For the
same article of the Constitution which
makes the House elect the President
throws the election of the Vice PreSi-
dent I'm the Senate. The list of eligible
for the Vice Presidency is confined 10
The TWO names having received the
highest numbers of votes cast in the
Electoral College.
Hence. i'm the next Senate. Mr.. PETER.
the Alliance Senator from Kansas, will
be compelled 90 vote for either the Re-
publican or Democratic candidate, and
il is quite likely he will prefer the Re-
publican. Indeed, it is the general be-
lief that after the first years service in
the Senate has worn the exceedingly
new yarniSh of Mr.. PETER, he will settle
down in the Republican ranks on all
questions. How the Rev. Mr.. Kyle, the
.Iudocrat" from South Dakota. would
vOte ia such an emergency might be a
matterof interest Co himself, but il is of
49,. r-..r.r,,far,..e to orrr- ono piSp Mr. frhv