The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-15
COUNTING CHICKENS.
Might Be Well to Wait Until the
Eggs Are Matched.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE declara-
ton of Senators Stewart and PETER
render, it somewhat uncertainr whether
the Populist senators or any Of their
number will unite with the Republican
senators for the purpose of securing
control of the Senate after the Attn of
March. Without this assistance it viii,
according to present appearances, be
impossible for the Republicans to regain
control before 1897 or after the next
election. Giving them one of the sena-
tors to he elected in place Of Senators
Ransom and Jarvis. Of North Carolina.
and not counting Senator Jones. OF
Nevada, as a Republican. they cannot
hope for more than forty-three Repubh-
cans in the Senate. and that is two less
than will be required for either organl-
cation for the transaction of business.
The question has also been raised as
/ to whether the Republican senators Will
really desire to organize, and some OF
tthe older and more experienced poll
tfcians abouc Washington contend that
they will not SO desire, when they come
10 look the ground over and weigh The
various considera lions involved.
| The principal reason Tor TINS view Is
perienced Republican members viii be
adverse to assuming a responsibility IN
the absence of real power to transact
business. which they would of course
not have unless there We're majority
of senators pledged to act with them
on questions of party policy as well as
upon organization. They call atten-
ton to the fact that the House will be
composed in a large measure OF untr1ed
members and it is possible that many
of the new men may be disposed TO
commit the party to a legislative policy
which might prove to be unwise, at
least unavailing in the face of the fact
that the presidential chair will still be
in the hands of the Democrats.
What then?" they ask, is the
sense of Republicans assuming the re-
sponsibility of power without being able
to exercise it?'
To do this they contend they must
necessarily make some concessions to
embarrassing. Continuing the argu-
ment in this line they say that the fact
ithat the Republicans have not the
Senate will prove check upon tine
House in case one is needed and enable
+ba cooler members of that body to hold
tbe more radical in, by Simply holding
I'D the impossibility of accomplishing
anything in that BODY ana polnung Out
the unwisdom of fruftless effort On
the other hand, the organization of the
Senate would give the Republicans no
advantage except that to be derived
from the acquisition of the officers and
the control of committee action.
If Utah elects Republican senators
and the senatorial elections in other
states now 60 as the returns from me
late election indicate they will, this
win give the Republican party an alb
solute majority and thus definitely set
tie the question. Or if either New
Mexico or Arizona should elect Repuoli-
can senators, assuming that there
would be no change of programme Oh
the part of the Democrats as to the
policy as state at the short session, the
effect would be the same. The two
senators from either of these proposed
states would be sufficient to give the
senate to the Republicans, whereas if
the Democrats should secure senators
from all of them, they would still be
short one Of a majority.