Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-12
THE NEXT SENATE.
The Democrats Seemingly Assured Of Con-
troll Of That Body.

The Democrats Seemingly Assured OF Con-
troll of That Body.
On the 4th Of March, 1898, twenty-five seats
in the United States Senate become vacant.
The control Of these senatorial vacancies
was at stake in the recent presidential
election, and it is now evident that the
democratic party has captured enough Of the
vacancies to insure its supremacy In tho Senate
regardless of almost any possible combinations
between the republicans and populists: Assum-
ing that Montana. California and Wyoming
will send democratic Senators here,
as indicated by the Associated Press dis
patches. the democrats at the beginning Of the
Fifty-third Congress would have as many Sen
ators as the republicans and populists CON-
bined, and thus would be able to organize the
Senate by the casting vote of Vice President
elect Stevenson. II is reasonably certain. how
ever, that the democrats can rely on the sup
port Of some of the populist Senators In any
Of their projects, whether for the removal OF
the present force of republican employees OF
the revision of the tariff.
NEXT MARCH.
OF tho twenty-five senatorial seats vacant
March 4, 1898, the democrats will name the
occupants of thirteen, the republicans Of nine
and the populsts of three-one being Senator
Stewart OF Nevada, who has Topped from
the republican party into the silver party. The
democrats lose no scat they now hold and gain
five from the republicans, one each in California
Montana, New York. Wisconsin and Wyoming
The populists gain Senators from the republi-
cans in Kansas and Nebraska, besides Senator
Stewart in Nevada, who viii succeed himself.
Some doubt still surrounds the complexion
of the Legislatures in California, Montana, Wyo-
ming and Nebraska, but late returns all say that
the democrats have gained the legislatures in
the first three named states and the populists In
the last.
The elections Just held will also have an i'm
portant bearing on the control Of the Senate
during the last two years of President-elect
Cleveland's administration. for q number OF
those persons elected last Tuesday will hold
over to vote for Senators two years hence.
NEW SENATORS IN 1885,
The terms Of twenty seven Senators expire
March 4, 1885. They come from the states Of
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado. Delaware
Georgia, Idaho. Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky
Louisiana. Maine. Massachusetts. Michigan
Minnesota. Montana. Nebraska New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, North Carolina
Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South
Dakota. Tennessee, Texas West Virginia and
Wyoming. The democrats appear also to have
the advantage as respects these vacancies
As disclosed by last Tuesdays election
the states of Colorado, Delaware, Illinois
Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming at least are
doubtful and any additions at this time to the
doubtful list would be republican states
All of the six states named as doubtful
are at present represented by republican
Senators, SO that all of them must be re-
tanned for the republicans to remain as strong
two years hence as now, providing, Of course
that the whirliSig of politics does not brine
about q chance in their favor that will knock to
pieces all ordinary political calculations.