The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-11-21

The next house of representatives will consist Of
PIG republicans and 172 democrats total of 39l,
as against total of 389 in the house during the
last session, of whom 223 were republicans and
166 democrats The result is net loss of four
from the republican side and net gain of six on
the democratic side the discrepancy being due to
the present vacancies. All told, the democrats
gained II districts and the republicans H.
The most marked advance made by the demo-
Gratis was in Indiana the home of Mr.. Bryan's
running mate Mr.. Kern. Of the 13 members con-
stitutng the Indiana delegation, only two will be
republican in the next congress- whereas in the
present congress there are eight republicans from
that state. Mr.. Bryan's own state of Nebraska
added two to the democratic column in the house,
making an equal division of the six members from
that state.
Of the other democratic gains Ohio recorded
three, Illinois one and Kentucky one.
The most startling acquisitions of the republ-
cans were made in North Carolina, where there
was gain of two. Missouri and Pennsylvania
also switched two members each from the demo-
cratic to the republican side, and New jersey
Rhode Island and Wisconsin each supplied one to
the republican additions.
The republican majority on full roll call will be
At as against 81 at present.
That special session of the sixty-frst congress
will be called soon after the 4th of March to take
up the matter of tariff revision became positively
known this week when William H. Taft, president
elect, after spending day at the White House, as
the guest of President Roosevelt, stated that he
intended to call the special session to meet soon
after his Inauguration as would be reasonable
This session will be for the purpose of deciding
lust why the tariff should not be reduced
Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate for preS-
dent, did not get single vote in his own precinct
in Terre Haute, Ind. Voting machines were used,
yet Debs says both he and his brother voted the
straight socialist ticket. In several places the
officials have refused to count the socialist returns,
but it is certainly tough luck when voting machines
are manufactured which will carefully throw out
all socialist votes.
So far as the Standard Oil Company is concerned
prosperity has fully returned The company has
just declared dividend of $80O00, 900, which
is only 80 per cent on it's capitalization of $1O 000
900. Roosevelt and his policies are plenty good
enough for Standard Oil just as John D. said they
were.
ebrates the election of Taft by closing it's doors.
Deposits $300,0 cash on hand $60,000. No
guaranteed bank deposit to bother them.
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The following from the Newport Press would
lead reader to believe that some of Colvie's
newspaper men are not particularly appreciated in
Newport:
Nov that the campaign is over the Press will
take occasion to nav its commitments to the mental
degenerate of the Reveille and the character
assassin who edits backmailing sheet known as
the Statesman-Index. By the way the use of the
word statesman at the head of that blasphemous
sheet is crime against public decency and it
should be debarred from the mails unless the
edition is fumgated before it is put in the post
office for distribution. And yet there are men,
even quasi-decent. who permitted this viifying
sheet to support them for an office of public trust
AS to the mental wreck that edits the Reveille it
is case where charity should be exercised.
Dwarfed in intellect at his birth he is not RESPONSE
BILE for the conditions surrounding him when he
was ushered into this world of pain and anguish.
He is in about the same fix as Uncle Tom''-the
Lord owns his soul, but his body belongs to the
county auditor. Coville is the proud possessor of
the most elegant home Knockers in this neck of
the woods Veatch and Coffman.''
Francis Joseph Heney, who has been the leader
of the prosecution of the San Francisco grafters,
was shot in the head last week Friday by Morris
Haas, an ex-convict and former liquor dealer,
whose record had been exposed by Mr.. Heney.
The shot was fired in the courtroom during the
trial of Abe Ruef 1t is believed Mr.. Heney will
recover The assassin, who shot because of a per-
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