Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-11-18
THE SENATE AFTER MARCH 4
VICE PRESIDENT sTEvENsON's VOTE NAY CIV
THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL

VICE PRESIDENT sTEvENsON's VOTE MAY GIVE
THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL.
On the 4th Of March, 1898, says the Balti-
more Sun, twenty-five seats in the United
states Senate become vacant The control of
these senatorial vacancies was at stake in the
ecent presidential election and it Is now evil
tent that the democratic party has captured
enough of the vacancies to insure its suprem-
acy in the Senate. regardless OF almost any
possible combinations between the republic
Cans and populists. Assuming that Montana
California and Wyoming will send democrat
ic Senators, as indicated by the Associa-
ted Press dispatches. the democrats at the
beginning Of the Fifty third congress would
have as many Senators lis the republicans and
populists combined, and thus would be able
to organize the Senate by the casting vote of
Vice Presiient-elect Stevenson. 1t is reason
ably certain, however, that the democrats can
rely on the support of some of the populists
the removal of the present force Of republican
employees or the revision of the tariff.
OF the twenty-five senatorial seats vacant
March T. 1885, the democrats will name the
occupants of thirteen the republicans of nine
and the populists of three, one being Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, who has Topped from
the republican party. The democrats lose no
seat they now hold and gain five from the re-
publicans-one each in California, Montana,
New York, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The
populists gain Senators from the republicans
in Kansas and Nebraska, besides Senator
Stewart in Nevada, who will succeed him.
self.
Some doubt still surrounds the complexion
of the Legislatures in California, Montana,
Wyoming and Nebraska, but late returns all
say that the democrats have gained the Legs-
laturcs in the first three named States and the
populists in the last.
The elections just held will also have an
important bearing on the control of the Senate
during the last two years of PreSident-elect
Cleveland's administration, for number OF
those persons elected last Tuesday will hold
over to vote for Senators two years hence.
The terms of q Senators expire March 4,
1895. They come from the States of Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware. Georgia,
Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky. Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota,
Montana Nebraska, New Hampshire, 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 adj
ditions at this time to the doubtful list would
J>o Of Cto%o
named as doubtful are at present represented
by republican Senators, SO that all OF them
must be retained for the republicans to remain
as strong two years hence as now, providing,
of course, that the whirligig Of politics does
not bring about change in their favor that
will knock to pieces all ordinary political
calculations.
The followsng is table giving the polit-
cal composition Of tine Senate in the next
congress: