The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-08
LAST TWENTY-FOuR HOURS GIVES THEM CONTROL OF
 THE U. s. SENATE.
KANSAS WENT DEMOCRATIC
Clear Working Majority Seems As sured in Both Branches of Con- gress-Progressive Attitude
 Still Problem.

Washington. Nov 7.-Control of the Senate in the Sixty-Third Congress now is practically assured to the Democrats. Concedng to the Re pub.icans the legislatures of all states still in the doubtful coumn tonight the Democrats will have vote of AS or one half of the entire membership of the Senate, with Democratic vice president in the chair to cast the de- ciding ballot in case of tie Seven states are yet to be heard from det- initely. A senator from one of these would give the Democrats clear ma jority and it is possible their strength wlll be even further increased by win4 hing in several.
 Kansas has been added to the Dem ocratic column in the past 24 hours. The states in which the complexion Of the legislatures is yet to be decided are:
 Illinois. Michigan New Hampshire, Oregon. South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming Ordinarily, Tennessee could be relied upon to help the Dem ocratic party but the. factiona fight there may prevent in this crisis. In lAinois there are complications grew ing out of the mutipicity of parties renderng 1t uncertain whether .er will be a senatorial ection In that state there should be chosen a sue cessor to the deposed senator LoTimer as well as to Senator Cullom whost term expires on the fourth of next March. If there should be no elec- ton the effect would be to favor tho Democrats by reducing the member. ship of the senate to 94 of which mum Der the AS already chosen would be a working majority. In New Hampshire the dispatches indicate possible com bination of Democrats and Republic ans and in that event prediction as to the course of 1.-the man selected wou. d be mere guess work.
 Whatever the outcome in any of the states mentioned, there can be no dor5t as to Democratic control of the senate
 In addition to the aid of the vice president in an emergency they will ind willing co operation among the progres sive senators. Three or four of the Progressives are almost as lib eTal in their tariff views and on other questions as the Democrats them selves. Senators Clapp, La Toilette Cummins, Gronna Bristow and Poin- dexter are all ayowed tariff reformers They also favor advanced legislation on other subjects. Senator Works announced his intention of voting for the Democratic presidential candidate some time before the election. This determination. however, was due to t peculiar combination of circumstances and the California senator probably would not wish to have it construed as binding him to a Democratic legis lative DO icy.He is classed as a pro tectionist
 Of the 31 hold over Republicans, eight have been classed as progres sives in the past They are senators Bris;ow of Kansas; Crawford oi South Dakota Cummins of Iowa: Gronna of North Dakota; Clapp Of Minnesota; La Toilette of Wisconsin
  Poindexter of Washington and Works of California MT Norris has bean one of the leaders of the progressive element in the house and will cooper ate with that element in the senate and it is expected that senator keu- yon of Iowa. will and possibly sena tor Borah of Idaho, in such measures as may appeal to Them.
 Much interest is manifested in the political affiliations of the Progress sves. Heretofore they have been content to be known as progressive Republicans. Whether any new mem Der of them will withdraw from the Republican party is problem Sen ators Bristow. C.app and Poindext,s are understood to have supported MT Roosevelt and if they should decline to co operate with the Republicans in the senate, the change would ma terial y weaken the old party