Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
From the Capital.

Gain While the Democrats Lose = Old
Members Returned.
From the Capital.
Washington correspondence:
The lower house of the Fifty-third
Congress will have a decided Democra-
tic majority. yet the Republicans by the
recent election gained more than they
lost in numbers and talent, while the
Democrats lost many old and experience
cd members. In the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fifty-second Congress
there are 235 Democrats, SO Republi-
cans and 8 Farmers Alliance men,
making a total OF 1872 members. In the
Fifty-third Congress the total member
ship will be 356, a gain of "a under the
reapportionment OF the new census. II
Is impossible yet to state definitely the
relative strength of each party in the
House, because in many districts the
official count will be necessary to de-
termine accurately the result. From
the returns already received, however,
it is evident that the Democrats will
have in round numbers 220 members,
the Republicans 1870, and the Populists
and Independents the remaining 6,
With such a working majority as this
i Iu0 dJo Will 10 dOlO w tndCO oil J
legislation they choose on the tariff oil
any other question:; and as the Senate
will also have q Democratic majority
the party will be entirely responsible
for whatever legislation is sent to Pres
ident Cleveland for his signature.
A study of the personnel of the newly
elected House shows that remarkably
| few changes have been made in it:
membership, considering the fact tha'
the Representatives we're voted for at 9
Presidential election, when men of botl
parties are naturally more anxious fol
nominations than in so-called off years
| There have been comparatively few
men of conspicuous ability or striking
| personality in the lower house durinl
the past few years, and the Fifty-sec
ond Congress was especially lacking IL
big men. The new Congress gains lit
tie il anything by the changes resulting
from the elections, and the Democrat
nave failed to make up in ability wha
they have lost in the failure of old ant
capable members to be renominated o.
reelected. The Republicans, on tn,
other hand, in proportion to their tota
number, will have more men of rea
ability and parliamentary experience
than the Democrats.
Losses and Gains.
The Democrats will still have sucl
strong men as Speaker Crisp, Judg
Holman, Springer, the Breckinridges
Bynum of Indiana, Bourke Cochran
Amos Cummings, Col. Fellows, Harte
of Ohio, McMillin of Tennessee, Rayne
of Maryland, and Blanchard of Lou
isiana; but they have lost Blount o
Georgia, Herbert and Forney OF Ala
bama, Hemphill of South Carolina, Hoa
and Williams OF Massachusetts, an
others. The three first named hav
served long years in Congress, and ar
possessed of valuable knowledge an
experience, which will be missed b.
their constituents and their colleague
in committees and on the floor of tn
House.
The Republicans lost none of thei
leaders, and the apt debaters, shrew
legislators. and skillful parliamentarian
that make up the little band who hav
stood so gallantly by their dethrone
Gear during the sessions Of the presen
Democratic House are all returned, an
will continue to follow the brilliant,
erratic and fateful. leadership of Tor
Reed.
Among the members of the Fifty
|
their fellows for some peculiar trait c
char acter, personal appearance, or Incl
dent in life, and whose names wi
no longer be heard In the roll call, ar
Kittle Halvorsen, the Norwegian AL
lance and Prohibition member froI
Minnesota; the venerable Leonidas N
Miller, of Wisconsin, who, as he sat
the front row. his bald head bobbin
over his spectacles, bore a striking re
semblance to Pickwick, who was Dor
in Greece, the son of fighting chief
tain, who left him on the BATTLEFIELD
after a fierce fight with the Turks
Sherman Hoar and George Fred Will
Jams, of Massachusetts, who wept whe
Mills was defeated in the speakershi
caucus, and refused forsooth to vote 10
Crisp in the House; Tom" Watson
of Georgia, who wrote a book to prov
that his colleagues in Congress wer
drunkards, and the three Taylors," al
from Ohio, and all Republicans. Their
will only be two Taylors in the neV
House as against five in the old. On
Is from Indiana and the other is fror
Texas. There will be two Smiths only
George W., from Pennsylvania, an
Marcus A., delegate from ArizoLa.
His Last onicisI Days.
| MT. HarrlSOn Will get MS laSJ month
pay on February 20 or 29 in the shape O
draft issued on warrant signed a
usual by the Secretary of the Treasur.
and sent over to the White House by
messenger. The amount of this draf
would be 81, 1867, but four days extr
pay will be added for March. On tn
evening of March 3 he will go TO tn
Capitol, where he will seat himself a
the big table in the center of tn
Presidents room. This is said L
be the handsomest room in the world
but the Chief Magistrate of the natioi
only uses It once in two years. 1t ha
velvet carpet with pile so deep tha
the footsteps of one who walks upon
are noiseless. The furniture is covere,
with red leather, and the ceiling is fres
coed In the highest style OF art. Mr.
Harrison will take chair between tive
great mirrors, which so throw back eacl
others reflections that loo iing in eithe
direction, he can see an interminabl
line Of his own images extending out o
sight. Up to midnight he will be occu
died in hurriedly signing bills, in orde
that they may become laws before tn,
expiration of the Fifty-second Con
| grsss. 1t will be his last night of power
The next day he becomes private clti