Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-10
DEMOCRATS. AND
INSURGENTS GAN
CONTROL SENATE
Way Now Cleared for Enact
ment of Party's Pro-
gressive Legislation.

With the aid of or four of the sew.
eral insurgent Republicans, Democratic
members will be able to control the
Senate as well as the House of Repre-
sentatives. Today's returns indicate a
Democratic majority of over sixty in
the lower house. The Senate will in
clude forty-three Democrats and forty
nine Republicans. With four districts
still in doubt, the House stands: Demo-
Gratis, 225; Republicans, 161; Socialist, 1.
The Legislature of Rhode Island Is
~deadlocked. and the Republicans will
control the legislatures of Nevada and
Iowa, where successors to Republican
senators are to be elected.
The Democratic gains in the Senate
have been made in these States: In
diana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Me-
braska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio
and West Virginia.
The Democratic gains in the House
are as follows Connecticut, 1; Illinois,
a; Indiana. 1; Iowa, 2; Kentucky, 1:
Maine, 2: Maryland, 2; Massachusetts,.
1; Michigan. 2; Missouri, 4; New Jer-
sey, 4; New York, IL; North Carolina,
3; Ohio, Z; Oklahoma, l; Pennsylvania,
6; Rhode Island, /; West Virginia, A.
Total, SO.
The Republicans did not carry a
single legislature that will elect a sue
cessor to a Democratic senator They
displaced six Democratic congressman,
one each in the States of Iowa, Massa-
chusetts. Missouri, Nevada, New York
and Pennsylvania. -
In and Out Together.
Four of the Republican senators who
will be retired began their service on
the same day, March 4, 1899. They are
Chauncey M. Depew, of New York;
John Kean, of New Jersey; Albert J.
Beveridge. of Indiana, and Nathan B.
Scott. of West Virginia. Charles Dick,
of Ohio, has been senator since March
2, 1904. and E. ]. Burkett. of Nebraska,
since March 4, 1905. William Warner,
of Missouri, has served since March IS,
1905. 1t is understood President Taft
will nominate him for commissioner of
pensions.
In Connecticut Senator Buckley says
he will be reelected by the Republican
legislature, but the Hartford Courant
says a majority Of the Republicans will
vote in the aucus for Ex-Governor Nc
Lean.
Eugene Hale. the Oldest senator in
point of service, who has represented
Maine since March 4, 1881, Wilt be sue
ceeded by a Democrat. Nelson w.
Aldrich, senator from Rhode Island
since October 5, 1881. will be replaced
by a Republican. Julius c.. Burrows,
who, in January. 1895, resigned a seat
in the House of Representatives when
! serving his sixth term to accept APP
pointment as senator to I'll a vacancy
and was twice reelected, will b. sue
ceeded by C. E. Townsend, now serv-
ing his fourth term in the House. Pur.
cell, a Republican Senator, who re-
signed, will have an insurgent success
sor, Representative Gronna. Repre-
sentative Miles Poindexter, of Wash
ington, an insurgent, will take the seat
of Piles.
Uncle Joe Out for Leader.
In the next House Uncle Joe" Can
non will be on the floor, having Dalzell,
Payne n his old following with him
and the same insurgeni strength to
combat. He will be one of the olo-time
f~igures-just how powerful remains to
be seen. Friends of Uncle Joe" are
sure that he will be a candidate for
the minority leadership n will make
the men who deserted him at the
eleventh hour stand up and be counted
in the party caucus.
The House will miss Tawney, the
Minnesota blacksmith, who formerly
controlled appropriations; Hull, who
was the military committee chairman;
Scott, who was once on the high road
to the secretaryship of agriculture, and
a score of others who went down in
the primaries. Others who met defeat
at the polls include Parsons, Bennet,
Fassett and Hamilton fish, the n
out-and-out insurgent from New York,
and Parker, of New Jersey, chairman
of the judiciary committee.