Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-30
THE NEW SENATE.

Should the Senate be called togeth-
er March in extra session to act on
the peace treaty. many senators who
have long been conspicuous figures in
public life will be missing, and num-
Dor of their successors will make their
first app earance before a national
audience. Senator German, who has
been for almost twenty years the
most adroitreprese ntative of "boss-
ism" in the Senate, will be seen no
more in that body. The fate that
ought to overtake Quay has overtak-
en- him. Maryland has repudiated
him utterly, and he will be succeeded
by Hon. Louis E. McComas, "a man of
vastly more talent than German for
everything but the lower intriguing
of practical politics. Both of Mary
lands senators will then be Republi-
cans. Republican success in the No
vember elections has brought about
political unity in the senatorial rep
reservations of several states which
have for many years heretofore been
divided.
In the present Senate, New Jersey,
New York, Indiana, California, Mary
land, North Dakota, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wash
ington, West Virginia and Wisconsin
have politically divided representa-
ton. The election of Mr.. Kean gives
New Jersey two Republican senators.
The success of Mr.. Beveridge in In
diana makes that states representa-
ton in the Senate Republican by the
retirement of Mr.. Turpie. Mr.. Depew
takes the place of Senator Murphy
(Dem.) of New York, and that state
is once more solidly on the Republi-
can column of the Senate. Maryland
comes under the same category and
so does North Dakota. The choice of
n. B. Scott (Rep.) by the West Vir-
ginia legislature as successor to Hon.
Charles j. Faulkner Dem. gives SEN
ator Elkins (Rep.) a Republican col
league. In Utah, California, Wash
ington, Nebraska and Wisconsin leg
islative deadlocks in senatorial con-
tests continue.
The exact representation of each
party in the Senate on March 4, 1899,
may not be finally determined until
that day itself, possibly not then if
the deadlocked factions OF several
legislatures continue as obstinate as
they are at present. Thus in the leg
islatures of Delaware, Wisconsin,
Washington and Pennsylvania the
Republican strength abundantly
equal to the election of senators is
rent by factional contests. Addicks
prevents the election of Republican
in Delaware to succeed Senator Gray.
In Wisconsin the Republican majority
is so large that it's members have fall
len to fighting among themselves, and
there are five Republicans being bal
loted for to succeed Senator Mitchell
(Dem). Washington is in much the
same condition and the Pennsylvania
struggle turns on the question of how
twelve or fifteen votes will go.
Against Republican gains already
recorded must be set the probability
Of the elections of a straight out
Democrat to succeed Mantle of Mon
tana, a very dubious Republican, and
straightout Demo crat in Utah to
succeed a very dubious Independent.
A careful estimate made just before
the legislatures began to ballot for
senators gave as a forecast of the
next Senate 55 Republicans and 35
Democrats, Populists, etc. Even if
the Republicans fall one or two short
of 55 senators they will still have an
abundant majority in the Senate, and
what is important, that majority will
be emphatically for sound money.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, Silverite,
and Senator Clark of Wyoming, Rep,
were reelected yesterday.-Tr
cript.
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