Arizona republican., 1899-12-02
Rolls Prepared for the
 Coming Session.
DATES OF CAUCUSES
There Are Only Eight Members of the Opposition Who Are Not Straight Out Democrats Exactly 0ne-third of the House Consists of New Members Previous Ser vice of Some.

Washington, Dec. 1.-The caucus rolls of both the great parties are re- ceived from the public printer and show that the membership of the na- tional house is now complete, saving only the vacancy in the Seventh Ken lucky district, caused by the death last week of Representative Settle. Temp
 orarily the republicans will have a majority of fourteen, or fifteen if Gen.
 eral Wheeler, of Alabama, does not pair with a republican, although war rents have been issued for a special election in the Seventh district on De- cember 1S When a successor to Mr. Settle has been chosen the house will have 357 members. That may last for only a short time, for Mr. John Wal ter Smith, of Maryland, will become governor of that state January 1. It is very rare that death or resignation does not leave the membership one or two short
 The party caucuses to nominate can didates for speaker and for the other house offices, including cleark, ser geant-at-arms, doorkeeper and post i master, are called for December 2, the Saturday preceding the assembling of congress. MT. Richardson, of Ten nessee, as chairman of the democratic
 caucus for that party, and General Grosvenor, of Ohio, acting in a similar capacity, have called the caucus for the republicans. As both parties have large representation on the floor. 1t will probably be necessary to hold each caucus in the hall of the house. It has been suggested that one caucus might be held in the afternoon and the other held in the evening.
 In the last congress there was often much difficulty in ascertaining exactly what the politics of the opposition members was. The fusion members were often averse to declaring them selves as either democrats, populists or silverites. W. C. Jones, of Washington
 state, who is succeeded by w. L. Jones. of Yakima, was one of those members. In this coming congress there will be fewer fusionists, and, in fact, the unofficial list, which is like wise just from the public printer, shows only eight opposition members who are not straight democrats. These are: Populists-Represen John c. Bell, of Colorado; Edwin R. Ridgely, of Kansas, and William L. Stark. Rod- erick D. Sutherland and William Ne vile, of Nebraska. Silverites-Repre- sentatives John F. Shafroth, of Colo i rado; Edgar Wilson. of Idaho, and Francis G. Newlands of Neveda.- The democrats, accordingly. have at pres ent 167 members, and the republicans 1S9. The reckoning above --~s not take any account of the absence of General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, in the Philippines. The recent cable gram from Manila concerning his in- tention to withdraw from the house probably means that he will not pair on the republican side.
 It is noteworthy that exactly one third of the incoming house will be new members. If one counts William A. Young, of the Norfolk (Va.) district, and Sydney P. Epes. of the Fourth Virginia district, who were unseated by the last house, as new members, there are 119 men who were not mem bers of the Fifty-fifth congress, 1l9 being one-third of S57. A few of these have served in some previous house. They are Gaston A. Robbins, of Selma, Ala, whose seat is being contested by w. F. Aldrich; James R. Williams, or Carmi, Ill.,; James E. Watson, ot Nashville, Ind; w. A. Calderhead, or Marysville, Kan, and Chester I. Long, of Medicine Lodge, Kan; Nicholas Null Ter of New York city; William T. Crawford, of Waynesville, N. C.; whose seat is being contested by ex- Representative Pearson; Adhesion Gaston of Meadville, Pa, and Frank Mondell, of Newcastle, Wyo. Of the newcomers, 56 are republicans, and 66 are democrats.