Mohave County miner., 1916-11-18
PERSONNEL IF HOUSE
 DISCUSSED

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA. Champ
 Clark, speaker of the house, reached
 Washington today and conferred with
 Democratic leaders regarding the con
 gressional election, which, according to
 the latest unofficial returns, leaves
 control of the next house in doubt.
 Representative Woods of Iowa was
 insisting that complete returns would
 show Republican gains instead of
 losses and that Republicans would dic-
 tate the organization of the house.
 Representative Doremus claimed
 early in the day at the White House
 that PIP Democrats and only 211 Re-
 publicans surely had been elected and
 that there were nine doubtful districts
 He reiterated this later to Speaker
 Clark, Senator Stone of Missouri and
 other Democratic leaders, enumerating
 districts which he believed would show
 Democratic victories on the official
 count. During the day, however, there were no changes in the unofficial re-
 suits, now indicating the election of
 PIT Republicans, PIP Democrats, 2I Progressives, 1 Progressive-Protec- tionist, 1 Independent, l Socialist and
 1 Prohibitionist.
 Representative Doremus, in his statement of doubtful districts at the informal conference of party leaders, claimed that official returns would re- verse the result and show the election of W. O. Martin, Democrat, over w. P. Martin, Progressive-Protectionist, in Louisiana; Zebulon Weaver, Democrat, over James J. Britt, Republican, in North Carolina; Thomas Scully, Demo- crat, over Robert Carson, Republican, in New Jersey; Samuel W. Beaks, Democrat, over Mark R. Bacon, Re publican, in Michigan; T. J. Steele, Democrat, over G. c. Scott, Repubi- can, in Iowa, and M. c. Kelly, Pro gressive, over William H. Coleman, Republican, in Pennsylvania.
 In addition Mir. Doremus insisted that Clyde T. Taverner, Fourteeth Ili- nois; Harry B. Mitchell, Montana, at large, and Thomas G. Patten, Eigh- teenth New York, all apparently de- feated by Republicans, had excellent chances of ultimate success. He as serted that, despite reports of the election of Miss Jannette Rankin, Re publican, in Montana, by majority of 400, Harry B. Mitchell had won by majority of 10000. This information, he said, had come from several sources.
 Tonight, however, MT. Doremus re- ceived a message from the Democratic candidate conceding the election of Miss Rankin by a safe majority and his claim for the Montana district.
 Unofficial returns in disputed dis tricts show the election of W. P. Mar tin of Louisiana by 91 votes; Britt, North Carolina, by 13; Carson, New Jersey, by Il; Bacon, Michigan, by 100; Scott, Iowa, by 79; Coleman, by 20; Francis, Eigh- teenth New York, by 2656, and Ora ham, Fourteenth Illinois, by 1929.
 Republican leaders are claiming that final results will show the election of A. J. Barchfeld, Republican, over Guy E. Campbell, Democrat, in the Thirty second Pennsylvania district, and Rob- ert F. Duer, Republican, over Jessie D. Price, Democrat, in the First dis trict of Maryland. Announcement of a contest in the Maryland district was made today. In the Thirty-second district on the official ,. county today, Campbell had made a net gain of IA votes in two Pittsburgh {, wards.
 Speaker Clark evinced great interest '. in the claims of the Democratic con gressional chairman and remarked at I the close of the conferenct that the situation was very interesting"
 ''The only thing to be done," said {; the speaker, "is to watch the official count in all the districts and wait for the final results. Three times in the history of the government there have V been prolonged contests over the cleo ! tion of speaker. Twice it took three months and once it required two months and half to elect the speaker. . The first long fight was in 1851 when e Howell Cobb of Georgia was elected V speaker after fight lasting more than t two months, during which no party t could get a majority. The fights which lasted three months ended in t the election of Governor Pennington of Il New Jersav in 1Q60 and General I