Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-07
Chairman of the Committee on Agri-
culture Defeated, as Was Also
Representative Frederick
Lands of the Eleventh
Indiana.
MARYLAND THREE TO THREE
That State Now Has Three Republi-
cans and Three Democrats in the
Delegation-Spencer Black
burn, Only North Carolina
Republican, Defeated.

A republican majority in the
House of Representatives of the
Sixtieth Congress of at least sixty
is assured.
One interesting feature of the
election is the failure of Mr.. Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, to secure
the defeat of asingle member OPP
posed by him.
Speaker Cannon was elected by
his usual majority of about 1900.
Representative Babcock of Wis
consin has probably been defeated
by small majority. Representative
Longworth of Ohio and Mudd of
Maryland were both reelected.
Representative Wadsworth of New
York, chairman of the committee
on agriculture, has been defeated,
as has Representative Frederick
Lands of Indiana. North Carolina
loses her only republican member
by the defeat of Representative
Spencer Blackburn. Maryland
gained one republican member,
Jackson, in the first district and
one democrat by the election of
Wolf in the third, making the dele
CATION three to three, as formerly.
Special From STAFF Correspondent.
NEW YORK, November AT noon to-
day Chairman Sherman of the republican
congressional committee estimated that the
returns show a republican majority In the
next House of seventy-nine, with thirty
one doubtful districts still to hear from.
and that the republicans ought to split even
in those doubtful districts.
Speaker Cannon in the face of the fight
made on him by Compers, has carried his
district by larger majority than two
years ago.
Representative Babcock of Wisconsin.
chairman of the District of olumbia COM
r,ittee, is defeated by 600, the result Of the
factional troubles in his district fomented
by Senator LaFollettte.
Representative Wadsworth chairman of
the committee on agriculture, Is defeated,
but his successor will vote with the repub-
licans, 1t is said.
OF the districts considered before election
as in the doubtful column, the republicans
have won as follows:
First Maryland, Jackson; eighth North
Carolina, Blackburn; sixth New York, CAL
der; thirteenth New York, Parsons; fourth
Wisconsin, Carey; fifth Wisconsin, Stafford;
first Tennessee. Brownlow: fourth New
York, Law: fifth New York. Waldo; sixth
Massachusetts,. Gardener; thirteenth Ohio,
Mouser; third Ohio, Harding; fifteenth
Ohio. Dawes: ninth Kentucky, Bennett;
first Indiana, Foster; second Iowa,
Dawson; fifth Missouri. Ellis: third Ken
lucky, A. d. James: fifth Massachusetts,
Ames; tenth Kentucky Langley. The re-
publicans lost among the doubtful: Wads-
worth. thirty-fourth New York; Fulkerson'
fourth Missouri: third Wisconsin. Bah
cock: fifth Kentucky. Owens: Dale. tenth
Pennsylvania: second Nebraska. Kennedy;
eighth New Jersey. Gottlob; sixth New Jer-
sey, Burke; first Iowa, Kennedy; sixth Ohio,
Hildebrand. The thirty-one doubtful dis
tricts vet to hear from are in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. 1t will
require the official count in some of these to
determine the result.
The congressional committee cannot pre-
pare a full table of the elected represents
tives today, 1t is said. N. o. M.