The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05

sary for the DsWocrats to Secure Sew
enty-Eight Votes In shc North aud
Showed Them Sixteen Short of n Ma.
jority with Five Doubtful Districts
| 60 be Heard From.
Washington, Nov. 4.-Although the
returns from the doubtful congressional
districts were slow in arriving, the in
dications at midnight were that the re-
publicans would control the next house
of representatives by narrow margin.
In the present house, with a member
ship of 357. the republicans have Al ma
| jority. Under the new apportionment
the Fifty-eighth house will consist Of
1856 members, a majority of which is 1874
The thirteen southern states, not count
ing West Virginia, but including Mis-
souri,, have 125 representatives. The
democrats have carried 116 of these dis
tricts and the republicans probably five
two in Tennessee, one in Kentucky and
two in Missouri, with two in North Car
olina, one in Virginia and one in Ala
bama doubtful according to the latest
returns.
To obtain a majority in the next
house it was necessary, therefore, for
| the democrats to secure IS votes in the
north and west. In this territory they
have at present 81 representatives. The
latest returns indicate that this
strength has been held. with the ex-
ception of one seat each from Idaho
Montana and Nevada, as to which the
returns at this hour are unconclusive
Adding 40 to 116 gives the democrats
| 165. The returns show that they have
made gain of three in Pennsylvania
one in Nebraska, one in Delaware, one
in Wisconsin, two in Maryland, one in
Colorado and probably four in New
York, swelling the total to 17S. This
| leaves them sixteen short of a majority
with the result in five doubtful south
ern districts to be heard from and
doubtful districts in the north and west
from which the returns are as yet in
adequate, as follows: West Virginia,
2; Ohio / Indiana, 2; Illinois, 2; Iowa,
| l.; Nebraska, i; Kansas, l; Minnesota,
2; Michigan /; California, 2, and Utah,
], a total of q.
| Returns at O'Clock add one demo-
crat in New Jersey, one in Minnesota,
one in Illinois, one in Alabama and two
| in North Carolina to the democratic
representation, total of six. But two
of the gains credited to the democrats
! in Pennsylvania should properly be set
down as fusion republicans, making the
| democrats actually elected, by the re-
turns thus far received, 1874, with the
doubtful districts in Minnesota having
gone democratic, the one in Kansas re-
publican-Kansas having gone solidly
republican--and the one in Iowa repub-
lican. Three of the four doubtful south
ern districts went democratic.
New York, Nov. 4.-Detailed reports
| from the congressional districts
throughout the country to the head
quarters of the republican congression-
al committee in this city same in SLOW
| ly tonight. but in spite of a democrat
ic gain of at least four representatives
from New York and of two from Marv-
land the committee was satisfied that
| the republican party was holding it's
own throughout the country outside of
New York city, and that the repubi-
cans would retain control of congress
by a majority of at least %. and prob
ably %. The former number is Chair
| man Babcock's estimate and the latter
is that of Congressman Overstreet. of
Indiana, secretary of the congressional
committee. which has been Immediate
ly in charge of the campaign for the
lower house since last May. A -