The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-11-11
REPUBLICANS MAY LOSE NINE.
TEEN HOUSE MEMBERS AND
STILL RETAIN CONTROL.
DENIS. NEED y MORE
In Oregon Thlrty-Two Initiative and
Referendum Measures Are Up
for Consideration Of
the Voters.

Chicago, Illinois.-Election Of state
officers, judges OF the Supreme Court,
railroad commissions, etc., will be
held in thirty-eight states on Tuesday.
Maine, Vermont, Arkansas and Geor.
gia have held their state elections, but
the two latter states will elect lepre
sentatives In Congress. Maryland
Mississippi, Virginia and West Virgin
Ia likewise will elect representatives.
Maine and Vermont have already
chosen their representatives and state
officers. In twenty-eight Of the states
governors and full state tickets are
to be elected. In nine others justices
Of the Supreme Court and minor Of
icials are to be chosen, while in IEdi-
ana state officers, except Governor,
will be elected.
In order to gain control Of the
House it would be necessary for the
Democrats to elect twenty-five mem
bers, while the Republicans may lose
nineteen and still hold control. The
total membership of the House is 391,
majority being 1876. The present
Republican membership is 213 and
the present Democratic membership
LIZA. With four vacancies the Repub-
lican majority is forty-one.
The Prohibition party has tickets in
twenty-five states, the Socialists in thir.
ty-four, the Socialist Labor in eight.
The independence League has full
state ticket in New York; the Key
stone and the Industrial party each
have ticket in Pennsylvania; the
Peoples Independent (Populist) has
Dne in Nebraska, and the American
party (anti-Mormon) one in Utah.
Tickets In Field.
The number of tickets in the vari.
bus states is: /, South Carolina and
Louisiana; 2. Florida, Kentucky and
North Carolina; 8. Idaho, Nevada,
Washington and Wyoming; 4, Ala
bama, California, Colorado, Connecti-
cut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Montana, New Hampshire, New Jer.
sey, North Dakota. Oklahoma, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennes-
see and Wisconsin; 8, Illinois, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Utah;
s, New York and Pennsylvania.
Prohibitionists have tickets in Cali
tornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Della
ware, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Okla
homa, Oregon; Pennsylvania, Rhode
island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and
Wisconsin.
Socialists have tickets in Alabama,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Del
aware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Numerous proposed constitutional
amendments and questions of various
kinds are to be submitted in many
Of the states. Prohibition is an issue
in Florida, Missouri and Oregon, and
in those states proposed amendments
to the constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors will be voted upon.
Three states, Oklahoma, South Da.
kota and Washington, will vote direct.
ly on the question of granting suffrage
to women, while in Oregon a proposed
amendment to the constitution grants
to all taxpayers, regardless of sex,
the right Of suffrage.
The largest number of questions to
be voted upon in any one state is
in Oregon. There thirty-two initiative
and referendum measures will be
upon the ballet for approval or rejec.
ton. Included in this number besides
the proposed suffrage and prohibition
amendments to the constitution, is a
bill, proposed by initiative petition,
amending the Oregon primary law,
and extending its provisions to presi.
Dental electors; for election by party
voters of delegates to their national
nominating conventions.
Conservation of natural resources
will be passed upon by voters of Wis.
consin in the shape of a proposed
amendment to the constitution author.
izing the state to make annual ap.
preparation for acquiring, preserving
and developing water power and for.
es:s of the state. In Minnesota pro.
posed constitutional amendment au.
taorizes the Legislature to exempt
from taxation lands of private persons
to be used for purposes of reforesta.
ton.
RosENHEIMER Is ACQUITTED