Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-05
HOUSE is VERY CLOSE
Republicans Seem to Have Ma.
jority, with Only Eleven
Doubtful Districts.
Republicans Hold the West and East,
Carrying New York Over Big
Greater City" Vote
Details.

Associated Press up to 1870 this morn
ing show that the Republicans have
elected 1876 representatives and the
Democrats $50, with eleven districts to
be heard from.
Washington, Nov. g. At 2 n. IN.
Chairman Griggs of the Democratic
congressional committee, issued a state
ment claiming that the Democrats had
elected 1919 representatives.
Washington, Nov. 5.-Although the
returns from the doubtful congression-
al districts were slow in arriving the
indications at this writing are that the
Republicans will control the next house
of Representatives by narrow mar
gin. In the present house, with a
membership of 357, the Republicans
have forty-one majority. Under the
new apportionment the Fifty-eighth
house will consist of 3S6 members, a
majority Of which is 1914. The thir-
teen southern states, not counting
West Virginia, but including Missouri,
have 1875 representatives.
Democrats Have 116 of Them.
The Democrats have carried 116 Of
these districts and the Republicans
probably tive-two in Tennessee, one
in Kentucky and two in Missouri
with two in North Carolina, one in
Virginia and one in Alabama doubtful.
To obtain q majority in the next house
it was necessary, therefore, for the
Democrats to secure seventy-eight
votes in the north and west. In this
territory they have ut present fifty
two representatives. The latest re.
turns indicate that this strength has
been held with the exception of one
seat each from Idaho, Montana and
Nevada, as to which the returns ut this
hour are inconclusive. l
| Looks Like Close House.
Adding 40 to ZIG gives the Demo
Gratis 105. The Democrats show tina
they have made q gain of three il
Pennsylvania, one in Nebraska, one il
Delaware, one in Wisconsin, two il
Maryland, one in Colorado, and proba
bly, four in New York, swelling tn
total to 17S. This leaves them siXtee
short of majority, with the resul
in five doubtful southern districts t
be heard from and doubtful district
in the north and west from which til
returns are as yet inadequate, as fol
lows: West Virginia. 2; Ohio, 1; Ind
ana, 2; Illinois, 2; Iowa, 4; Nebraska
i; Kansas, l; Minnesota, 2; Michigan
i; California, 2, and Utah, 1, tota
of 21.
Senate Republican by Sixteen.
The next United States senate will
be Republican by at least sixteen ma
jority, against the present majority o
twenty. The present senate contain
ffty-four Republicans and thirty-fou
| Democrats in a total Of ninety seat
i there being two vacancies from Dela
ware, where the Republican legislator
failed to elect. The terms of thirt
senators expire with the present con
gress. There is also vacancy iron
Michigan, caused by he death Of Sen
ator Mcmillan.
Democratic Elect Are 1874.
Later-Returns add one Democrat il
New Jersey, one in Minnesota, one il
Illinois, one in Alabama and two il
North Carolina, to the Democrat
representation, a total of six, maxim
the Democrats actually elected by tn
returns thus far received 1874. Othe
figures at this writing give the Repul
licans, 1856; Democrats, 176, and ind,
pendents, 8, with eleven districts
doubt.