Evening star., 1898-11-10
REMARKABLE ENDORSEMENT
President Mckinley Has . Congress of His
Own Political Faith.
The First Tine Since jackson This
Has Happened Daring n Presi-
dentfaI Term.

president Mckinley is to have an un-
usual presidential experience in the second
half of his term" said Mr. Q. P Austin,
chief of the bureau Of statistics discussing
today the result of the Tuesday elections
From the days of Andrew Jackson to the
present time no President was ever given
in the midst of his four years term
House and Senate in accord with him po-
litically, save in the exceptional period 1860
1874 during most of which only a portion
Of the states were represented in Congress.
In President Cleveland's first term the
House of Representatives elected in the
midst of the term was In accord with him,
but on that occasion his party failed to
control the Senate. So, emitting 'considera-
ton of the 1S60-1S74 period, there has never
BEEN from jackson to Mckinley, an 3cca-
sion in which the people gave to the Presi
dent, in the midst of his term, as they have
now done, Congress clearly controlled by
his own party. -.% ---
ivan Buren, who entered the White House
in 1887 with democratic House in his
first term, was confronted in the second
half with House so closely divided that
a whig speaker was finally chosen. The
whig party, which controlled the House,
elected simultaneously with Harrison and
Tyler, lost control of that body in the sec
ond Congress of that presidential term
Po'k, democrat, had democratic House
in his first Congress, but the wings con-
trclled it in the second. The Taylor-Fill-
ore vhig administration found democratic
control in the House during both of its
Congresses. Pierce. democrat, with whom
a Ctmocratic House was elected, was con-
ffDnted In the second half OF his term with
a HoLse controlled by the .afiti-Nebra ska
subsequently republican. party. Buchanan,
democrat, had a similar experience the
House of Representatives in his first Con-
gress being democratic and the second re-
publican.
From 1861, the date of LincoIn's inaug-
uration, until January, 1871 1thei House did
not contain q full representation of the
entire number Of states, .Blt ins the midst
of President Grants seceHd term, normal
conditions having been resumed, he found
himself confronted by House controlled
by the opposition party. Hayes, republican,
found democratic control IN the House in
both Congresses of his administration The
Garfeld-Arthur administration had the
operation of a republicans House during
the first half of the term.- but democratic
control in the second half, cleveland, dem
ocrat, in his first term had the co-operation
of the democratic party IN tie House in
both Congresses, but failed to eontrol the
Senate in either. Harrison, republican,
during the first half OF his term had the
Co operation of republican HouBe of Rep
resentatives, but the dernoerats controlled
that BODY in the second Aalf OF his term.'
Cleveland in his second term hxn a dem
ocratic House and Senate In the first half,
but an overwhelmingly republican House
In the second.
And now President Mckinley, whose
party while controlling the House during
the first half Of his term did not have a
clear majority in the Senates finds himself
the first President in more than half a
century aside from the, 1s6O-74 periods)
given, in the second half Of his presidential
term House and Senate in accord with
him." r'C