The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
ROLL OF THE HOUSE
NEW BODY WILL CONSIST OF 2ts REPUBLICANS AND 172
 DEMOCRATS. !,
HAS | TOTAL MEMBERSHIP WOW OF 3sl
At the Recent Election the Democrats Gained t7 Districts and the Repub- iieans f2--Greatest Changes in ln- diana and colorado--1o states Solid y Democratic, 18 Republican.

Washington, Nov. 1.-The temper ary rollcall of the house of represen- tatives for the Sixty-fir congress has been completed and published. It rep resents a complete list of the members of the new house as snown by unoffi- cial returns and gives the politics of all of them. According to this publi- cation the next house will consist of 2i9 Republicans and 1T2 Democrats, total Of 39i. as against total of 3S9 in the house during the last session. of whom 223 were Rcpuuocans and 1sS Democrats. The result is net loss of four from the Republican side and a net gain of six on the Democratic side. the discrepancy being due to pre- sent vacancies All. told the Demo crats gained 17 districts and the Re publicans i2
 The most marked advance made by home of MT Bryan's running mate, MT. Kern. of the entire i3 members con stituting the Indiana delegation only two will be Republican in the next congress. whereas in the present con gross there are eight Republicans from that state Colorado will not send so many Democrats as Indiana, owing to her smaller population, but that state recorded even greater revolution in that. whereas all three members of the present delegation are now Rep,ib- lican, in the next house all will be Democratic. MT 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.
 or the other Democratic gains Ohio recorded three. Illinois one and Ken lucky one.
 The most striking accretions of the Republicans were made in North Caro- lima where three members were taken from the Democratic column and in Oklahoma, where there was a gain of two. Missouri and Pennsylvania also switched two members each from the Democratic fn the Republican side and New Jersey. Rhode Island and Wlscon- sin each supplied one to the Republi- can additions.
 Otherwise than as here noted, the various state delegations will remain as at present.
 The states which will be solidly Democratic are. Alabama. Arkansas Colorado, Florida. Georgia. Louisiana. Mississippi. Nevada, South Carolina, Texas. and those which will be solidly Republican are California. Connecticut, Delaware Idaho. Kansas Maine. Mich igan. Montana, New Hampshire. North Dakota. Oregon. Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont. Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.
 New York will have in the next. ss it has In the present house. 26 Repub- licans and II Democrats; Maryland three and three but with swap in districts: Virginia nine to one in favor of the Democrats, as in the past; Ten nessee, eight to two as now; Mime sota. eight Republicans to one Demo crat: Massachusetts, eleven Republi- cans to three Democrats. the present proportion: Iowa. ten to one in favor of the Republicans, but with change as to the district represented by Democrat.
 The Republican majority on a full oil will be 47 as against 57 al present.