The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
1T IS REPUBLICAN.
Lower House in United
States Congress.
Senate Probably Democratic But
VIII be Close - Sound
Money All Right.


as follows:
Late returns from the States beyond
the Mississippi, indicating the capture
by the Bryan and Fusion forces of one
or two additional seats in the United
States Senate, threaten to limit the Re-
publican and sound-mOney strength in
the upper branch of Congress after
March 4 next to a bare quorum. The
Legislatures in Washington, Kansas
and Missouri are now conceded to show
working Popocratic pluralities, while
the political complexion of the South
Dakota Legislature is still doubtful.
California and North Dakota will re-
turn Republican Senators. Delaware's
Legislature is admitted to be Demo-
cratic, which means that a Democratic
Senator will be sent to Washington to
press a claim to the seat vacated by
Anthony Higgins on March 4, 1895.
In North Carolina it is not yet appar-
ent what forces will control the next
Legislature, but it is more than likely
that the Republican-Populist fusion on
legislative candidates has been sue
cessful, and that Mr.. Pritchard or some
other Republican will be chosen as
Chairman Marion Buffers colleague.
Though the Republican side in the
Senate has received a material re-en-
forcement as result of Tuesdays cleo
tions its strength had been so reduced
by the deserving silver or nothing con-
tingent from the mining States that it
can scarcely hope to do more than
make up for it's losses of last June,
and reassert party control of the Sen
ate with the aid of the Vice Presidents
vote. Unless further losses are report
ed from the States still in doubt, the
Republican party vote in the Senate
after March will probably be Isl
short of a self-registering majority.
The opposition forces are likely to be
split up into four factions-Sound
Money Democrats, Silver Democrats,
Silver Senators pure and simple, and
Populists. The latest returns indicate
that there will be 80 Silver Democrats
in the chamber 4 Sound Money Demo
Gratis, 5 Silver Senators and 6 Popu-
lists. If South Dakota and North Car
Dina are carried by the Popocratic leg
islative ticket, 1 Silver Democrat and L
Populist will be added to the opposi-
ton, which will then be an actual ma
jority Six of the Senators classed as
epublicans-Shoup, of Idaho; VOL
colt, of Colorado Carter, of Montana;
Mitchell, of Oregon, and Clark and
y
fore voted free silver coinage meas
ures, while the four Senators classed
as sound-money men, as we'll as five
Bryan Messrs. German, of
Maryland; Murphy, of New York;
Mills, of Texas; Martin, of Virginia,
and Mitchell, of Wisconsin-hav here
tofore opposed free coinage legisla-
ton. The actual sound-money strength
in the Senate will not, therefore, differ
greatly from the Republican party
strength in the Senate.
OF the so Senators who will be en-
titled to seats after March 8, 1897, IS
hold over from the present Congress.
They can be divided politically as fol-
lows: Republicans, %; Democrats, 20;
Sound Money Democrats, 4; Silver Men
8; Populists, g. Thirty-two vacancies
are to be filled from the following
States: Alabama, Arkansas, Califor-
MIA, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne
vada, New Hampshire, New York,
North Carolina, North Dakota, South
Dakota Utah, Vermont Washington
and Wisconsin. Republican Senators
have succeeded themselves already in
Iowa and Vermont, and two additional
seats have been gained in Ohio and
Maryland by the choice of J. B. For
aker and George L. Wellington to sue
coed Calvin S. Brice and G. H. Gibson.
Democratic Senators have also been
chosen in Mississippi and Louisiana to
succeed Democrats. In Kentucky the
present Legislature, which is to choose
a successor to J. G. S. Blackburn, has
now a Republican majority of 2, and
ought to be able to elect Republican
next winter at Frankfort. In these 6
States it is now apparent that the
present Republican representation
will be maintained - California, Con-
necticut, New Hampshire, North Da-
kota, Pennsylvania and Oregon. Dem
ocrats will succeed Democrats in these
6 States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina
PopuHst Senators will probably be re-
turned from Nevada and Kansas.
In New York, Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin 4 Republicans will replace
Messrs Hill, VOORHEES,, Palmer and
Villas. In Washington a silver Senator,
Squire, will be succeeded by a Demo-
crat Colorado will return Senator Tel
Ter, and another silver man will replace
Brown, a straight Republican, in Utah.
Dubois, a silver Senator, will probably
be dispossessed in Idaho in favor of a
Populist.
The Democratic side will gain a seat
in Delaware one from which Col
Dupont was excluded last spring by a
close vote in the Senate. If South Da-
kota's Legislature is Republican the
Populists will lose the seat which Mr..
Kyle now holds. North Carolina will
probably return a Republican in the
person of Pritchard, the sitting Senat-
or AS a result of Tuesdays election,
therefore, the Republican side has
made a net gain of 6 seats, which, con-
sidering the unusual conditions pre-
vailing in many Western States, is an
achievement of the most creditable and
substantial sort.
The following table will show the
makeup of the Senate after March