The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-20
What Statisticiaas Figure as Com
plexi0n of Next House.
But is as Near Final as Can be Made
Until Certificates of Election Have
Been Received-Interestino Facts
About the New House-SeyeraI
House Committee Chairnen Were
Not Reelected.
Especial to The Messen gel. }


Washington, November 17.-Con-
gressional statisticians VINO have been
here the past few days figuring OH the
status Of the house Of Representatives;
III the Goth congress, have reached the
conclusion that the republican house
majority will be fifty-four This is as
near final as the estimate can be made
until the clerk of the house has re-
celVed certificates of election and will
stand as correct, probably until all
contested election cases have been H.
nally decided.
This unofficial statement contains
some very interesting facts about the
new house OF the members elect
ed to the Sixtieth congress, 2s3
were reelected, making IOI new mem
bers, Of whom 81 are democrats and
4O republicans. OF the new members,
lb nave served in congresses prior to
the fifty-ninth, while IS ar eentirely
new to the congressional experience.
UnOhc1al returns show that the re-
publlcans have elected 219 and the
democrats 165, a republican majority
Of flfty-two. There are two vacancies
yet to be filled, one having been caused
by the death of Gen. Ketchum OF New
York, and the other by the death of
Lockwood Hoar of Massachusetts. 1t
is expected both these districts will
elect republicans, giving the majority
of fifty-fOur figured on.
Nine new members Of the house will
take their seats next month when the
t1tty-nlnth congress convenes for its
final session, having been elected to ill
vacancies caused by death.
The following men have been elected
to the Goth congress who are not mem
bers Of the 59th, but who have held
seats in some former congress:
B. F. Caldwell and NJ. B. Foster.
democrats, of Illinois; w H. Jackson,
republican, of Maryland; C. W. Hamlin,
and Robert Lamar, democrats, Of Mis-
souri,; G. M. Hitchcock, democrat, Of
Nebraska; William Hughes, democrat,
Of New Jersey; Francis B. Harrison
and Daniel J. Riordan. democrats. of
New York; W. P. Crawford, democrat,
of North Dakota; l. r. Sherwood, dem
oS1ot, VI ouiO, W. L1llS. Il,
of Oregon; John E Rayburn and G. n .
Brumm, republicans, of Pennsylvania !;
Sam B. Cooper democrat. of Texas
Frank R. Lassiter, democrat, of Viz
ginia.
Following is complete list of chair
men of committees in the present house
who were not elected to the Goth con-
gress:
James W. Wadsworth, Agriculture; !;
James H. Southard, coinage, weights
and measures; Joseph w. Babcoch,
District of Columbia; Frank c.. Wach-
ter, enrolled bills; Edward S. Minor,
expenditures in the interior depart
ment; James T. Cleary, library; Joseph
c. Sibley. manufactures; Charles H.
Grosvenor, merchant marine and fish
cries; Edward D. Y. MOrrell, militia;
mines and mining, Webster E. Brown;
public lands, John F. Lacy; ventilation
and acoustics, Roswell P. Bishop; war
claims, Thaddeus M. Mahon.
The contest for these chairmanShips
will begin as soon as congress con-
venes next month, although official
announcements of appointments will
not be madet for a year. AS some of
them are very desirable places, the
scramble promises to be lively one.