The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25

Rouse. however. for it's Treasurer. Charles c. Dawes of Illinois. who was McKinIey's Controller of the Currency, and who Is now President of trust company in Chicago. The Democratic Committee has no regular treasurer. but their campaign contributions are handled by a Finance Committee head ed by Representative Flood of Vir- ginia-Henry Delaware Flood.
 Their Problem Different.
 These two committees, charged with obtaining for their respective parties a majority in Congress. are alike com posed of one Congressman from each State. They have . campaign twice as often as the National Committees charged with eiecting a President. Each has its independent literary bu- reau and speakers bureau and the work of each will be supplemented by that of the District Congressional Com mittees scattered throughout the States. While Chairmen Hitchcock and Mack are at 1t, hammer and tongs. striving to carry tne States, each of which goes one way or the other and chooses it's solid quota of electors. Chairmen Mckinley and Lloyd are con- testing for the individual Congress sional districts, one by one; for State may go solidly Republic for President, yet send more Democrats than Republicans to Congress, and, as intimated above, a Republican Prest- dent may be hampered by Democratic Congress.
 Presidemts With Opposing Congresses. Six Presidents have had to put up | with this drawback since the Civil | War, although the Republican Prest5 dents have had the good fortune to have both Houses of Congres always on their side since Cleveland's last | NE.Fl laoA hol of ! second term, had to contend with a | House that was Democratic by sixty l one. although the Senate was Repub- | lican by fourteen. Hayes had to put up with Democratic majorities in both | Senate and House in the two Con- | gresses of his term, while Arthur in | the first half of his administration was kept on the anxious bench by inde- pendents, who held the balance of power in both Senate and House. The Senate stood thirty-seven Republicans to thirty-eight Democrats. but David Davis of Illinois, the only independent member who became President pro tempore, was able to make a tie by Evoting with the Republicans.
 In the House the Republicans had eight more votes than the Democrats but there were ten GreenbaclSers, who had the balance of power. In the sec- ond half of his term, Arthur had with him a Senate that was Repu blican by -four, not counting the two "readjust- CTS" from Virginia. who voted with his party. But the House was Demo- cratic by seventy~four, and Carlisle was Speaker Cleveland found a Re- publican majority of eight in the Sem
 ate when he first entered the White
 House and sent in his appointments for confirmation. But his party had
 a majority Of eighty-four in the House
 The Crumab in HarrfsOn's Bed.
 A worse crumb was in Harrison's
 bed during the second half of his
 term. The Senate was Republican by
 eight votes, but the House was Demo
 cratic by 14S, and Harrison had to
 be beholden to Speaker Crisp for the money to run the Government. Then
 finally. Cleveland had a still worse
 dose to swallow in the second half oi his last administration, both Senate and
 House against him, the House Repub- lican by 142, with Reed In the chair
 eloatIng over the Democrats. but the
 Senate with only three more Repub. Iicans than Democrats and worse and
 more of 1t, four Independents holding the balance of power-three Populists and one Silverite.
 That Taft, if elected. will have to 1 carry no such kettle of fish Is the look out of Chairman Mckinley, while Chairman Lloyd is as earnestly striv- ing to give Bryan a Democratic Con- | gress in the event that he is eIested ar to at least hamper Taft with an op- | rosinR Congress. At the same time each chairman will try to keep inde. nendents from gaining the balance Of hover in either House. The fate of avery candidate for Congress is de-
 pendent in some measure upon the