Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-15

REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE
HOUSE 10 -.
lIeans Had Four Years
Ago.

Washington, ID. C.-F1nal analysis
Of the returns from the states p1aces
the republican majority in the house
Of representatives at a. This repre-
sents . democratic gain Of - mem.
bers over their representation In the
last congress. It places the total
democratic membership at III, and
the republican membership at 216.
This 10 I'VE more members than the
republicans had In the F~fty-eighth
congress four years ago.
The majority may be reduced to ~,
since n district In Ohio IL reported
10 In doubt and probably democratic.
The democrats still have hopes Of get
ting the Twenty-fourth Illinois. where
Bob" Williams IL the democratic IAN.
didate. II williams should be elected,
the figure would be brought down to
40.
The democrats lose two seats in the
senate-those in Montana and Colo.
RADIO, now held by William A. Clark
and Thomas M. Patterson, respective.
ly. The most remarkable senate fight
was that won in Idaho by Senator
Fred Dubois (dem.). who will be the
only democratic senator from a state
entirely north of the Mason and Dixon
line. The change will leave the dem.
ocrats 81 members in the senate,
while the republicans will have 50,
n short Of a two-thirds majority.
The democratic gain In the house
Is distributed through the country. II.
linois contributes s more democrats to
the Sixtieth than to the Fifty.ninth
congress, Indiana 3. Iowa 2, Mime
sofa /, Missouri Z, Nebraska /, New
Jersey 3, New York /, North Caro-
lima 1. Ohio 4 or s, Pennsylva-
mia s, and Wisconsin 1; q total of 81
or IS. according to the outcome In the
doubtful Ohio district.
Chairman James s. Griggs, of the
democratic congressional committee,
comedies the election of q republican
house. and admits that the majority
will be around 40.
Democrats find some consolation in
the defeat of Representative Babcock
in Wisconsin, McCleary in Minnesota
and Wadsworth in New York, all OF
whom were prominent republican
members. McCleary was particularly
conspicuous as a stand-pat tariff man.
and the fact will be loudly proclaimed
. the occasion of his downfall.
A long train Of visitors went to the
white house to congratulate the pres.
ident upon the republican success in
New York and the congressional cleo.
ton. The republicans assert that the
result Is q vote OF confidence in the
administration and the president.
chanier Apparently Elected.
New York-With the official vote
Of but three counties missing, Lewis
S%tuyvesant Chanler apparently ia
elected lieutenant governor on the
Observation-Disclosures league tick
ct by a plurality approximately 1.7OO
votes over M. Linn Bruce, republican,
To arrive at these figures, Bruces
probable pluralities In the counties Of
Essex. Ontario and Niagara are based
ON the vote for the republican guberna
t0rial candidate. While slight changes
may be made In the returns from sew
eral counties, It IL not believed they
will materially reduce Chambers lead
but on the contrary may increase 1t
It appears that all the other candi
dates on the state democratic ticket
are elected by small pluralities.
Lost by Ten Votes.
ConcOrd-UnOffcial returns In New
Hampshire indicate that the voterI
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