The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-09

New York, Nov. 9.--Returns received
in the Associated Press office in this
city from all over the country up to
1880 this "wednesday morning indi-
cate that eighty-five Republicans ana
one hundred and nine Democrats have
certainly been elected TO seats in the
national house of representatives. The
same districts two years ago returned
To the lower house Of congress 1O5 Re
publicans and 80 Democrats. Based
solely upon the estimates in these dis
tricts a Republican loss of twenty and
a Democratic gain of twcnty-une is in
dicated. These estimates concede to the
Democrats all of the congressional dis
tricts in Greater New York except ono,
the Fifteenth,
BAriC OCk : ESTIMATE.
Washington. Nov. y. a. m.--Chair-
man I'abcock, Of the Republican con-
tJessional committee. has Just made
the following statement 10 the Asso-
,iated Press:
"While / am satisfied that tha Re
rui iicans viii control the h)uHa of
representative in the Fifty-sixth
congress, it il impossible at this hou"
to indicate what our majority N the
house will Ec. Thus far we have no
definite returns from Illinois Wis
Consin, Minnesota, Iowa or Kansas.
ohio has elected IL Republicans GER
tanlE and two districts seem to De
81 doubt. From Michigan the returns
seem To indicate d solid Republican
delegation. Rebresentativ" HaWley is
re-clccted in Texas. Vincent BoerinE
IS elected IN the eleventh Kentucky
ana Samuel j. Pugh is probably elect
ed in the ninth Eentuckr. i'hr elec-
Iion of George NJ. Dawson In the
cisht Kentucky is IN Goub, with cham
,CS seemingly in favor of his election.
.\dIl"ts from Maryland sh1W that we
have elected four representatives GER
tGinly. Nineteen members of the dele
,Sation from New York state and per
haps more will I've Republicans. l. +.
Fischer, Ot the fourth New York
IrooElyn-Is the only member we lave
elected in greater New Iork. Che
election of Cochran in the nineteenGh
New York and MChany in the thirty
scc0nd--Buffalo--,is in doubt. From
Pennsylvania we thus far have re-
Ceived some meagre returns but the
indications are that We have sustained
some losses there. Kirkpatrick, of
the eighth district and Arnold, Of the
twenty-eight, seem to have been de-
feated. Unofficial advices from west
ern states show that We have more
than held our own and my conviction
is that We chall control the house by
a safe majority, probably not far from
The figures Which | gave out last week.
The figures referred to by Mr.. Bah
tai i'm iot in n
that the Republicans would have ma
jority over all of about 25.
THE DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
Since early evening Secretary Kerr,
Of the Democratic congressional COM
mittee. and a small corps of political
statisticians have been working on re-
turns received at Democratic congress
sional headquarters. To the Associated
Press Secretary Kerr said at l o'clock;
The Republicans have lost control of
the house of representatives. We will
have from 1S6 to 1870 members and will
organize the house of the Fifty-siXth
congress. The majority Of the oppo-
sitinn will he from 16 TO 20 over the Re-
publicans and perhaps more. Our adj
vices indicate Democratic gains In some
of the state as follows:
Alabama, ,; Illinois, >; Iowa. ];
Kentucky, 3; Maryland, ,; Massa
chusetts, ,; Missouri, .; New Jersey,
=; New York, 8; North Carolina, ,;
Pennsylvania, 8; Virginia, 3; West Vir-
ginia, !. This is a total of 31. One
district in Delaware is doubtful with
the chances in favor of the Demo-
Gratis
In figuring gain of three in Nir-
ginia, Secretary Kerr includes two
districts which elected Democratic
congressman in 1896 who We're un-
seated by the present house.