Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-06
Republicans Seem to Have Ma
jority, with Only Eleven
Doubtful Districts.
THEY GET 116 SURE IN THE SOUTH
No Contests in Most of the States
Below the Ohio.
Republicans Hold the West and East.
Carrying New York Over Big
"Greater City, Vote
Details.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-Dispatches to the
Associated Press up to $50 this morn
ing show that the Republicans have
elected 1916 representatives and the
Democrats $50, with eleven districts to
be heard from.
Washington, Nov. 5.-At 2 a: m.
Chairman Griggs, of the Democratic
congressional committee, issued a state
ment claiming that the Democrats had
electe6 90 representatives.
Wasn 5ton, Nov. 5.-Although the
returns I'M the doubtful congression-
al district 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
membership OF 357, the Republicans
have forty-one majority. Under the
new apportionment the Fifty-eighth
house will consist Of 1856 members,
majority of which is 1914. The thir-
teen southern states, not counting
West Virginia, but including Missouri,
have 125 representatives.
Democrats Have 116 of Them.
The Democrats have carried 116 Of
these districts and the Republicans
probably fve-two in Tennessee, one
in Kentucky and two in Missouri
with two in North Carolina, one in
Virginia and ore in Alabama doubtful.
To obtain majority in the next house
it was necessary, therefore, for the
Democrats to secure seventy-eighr
votes in the north and west. In this
territory they have at 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 at this
hour are inconclusive.
Looks Like q Close House.
Adding 40 to 116 gives the Demo-
Gratis 105. The Democrats show that
they have made a gain Of three in
PENNSYLVANIA, one in Nebraska, one in
Delaware, one in Wisconsin, two in
Maryland, one in Colorado, and proba-
bly four in New York, swelling the
total to 178. This leaves them sixteen
short of a majority, with the result
in five doubtful southern districts to
be heard from and doubtful districts
in the north and west from which the
returns are as yet inadequate, as fol-
lows: West Virginia 2; Ohio, i; 1nd1-
ana, 2; Illinois, 2; Iowa, /; Nebraska,
/; Kansas, L. Minnesota, 2; Michigan,
I; California, 2, and Utah, /, a total
of q.
Senate Republican by Sixteen.
The next United States senate will
be Republican by at least sixteen ma
jority, against the present majority OF
twenty. The present senate contains
fifty-four Republicans and thirty-four
Democrats in a total of ninety seats,
there being two vacancies from Della
ware, where the Republican legislature
failed to elect The terms of thirty
senators expire with the present con-
gress. There is also vacancy from
Michigan, caused by he death of Sem
ator Mcmillan.
Democratic Elect Are 1S4.
Later-Returns add one Democrat in
New Jersey, one in Minnesota, one in
Illinois, one in Alabama and two in
North Carolina, to the Democratic
representation, a total Of six, making
the Democrats actually elected by the
returns thus far received 1874. Other
figures at this writing give the Repub-
leans, 1876; Democrats, 176, and indie
pendents, 3, with eleven districts in
doubt.
FROM THE GREAT WESTERN STATES