The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-11-09
THE ;:!EPUBL|CANS
WILL HAVE
Two Majority in the Senate and
Not Less Than 43 in the
House
NUGENTS CHANCES GOOD

Boise, Idaho, Nov 9.-Senator
John +. Nugent, Democrat, now
eads for reelection by ass votes
with 10000 votes counted and about
5000 more still to be heard from.
Frank r. Gooding, Republican, in
sists an official count will be neces-
Isary to determine the result The
county canvass will be made Nov
ember Is and will practically decide
the issue. The trend is toward Nu-
gent.
Washington, Nov. 9.-A Republl-
can majority in the next Congress OIL
at least two in the Senate and OF not
Hess than 43 in the House are appaf-
ent from returns yesterday from the
scattering doubtful districts OF last
Tuesdays elections.
Word from Detroit Of election IN
Michigan, upon almost complete un-
official returns OF Truman H. New
berry, Republican candidate for the
Senate, over Henry Ford, Democrat,
increased the Republican Senate roll
to 49--a bare majority. The Demo
crats have 46, with the Idaho con
test between Senator Nugent, Demo
crat and former Governor Gooding
still in doubt on the face of almost
complete unocial returns. Nugent
has majority of nearly 500 but
flooding has demanded an official
count which will be made November
I15.
| Returns from the last missing
House district--the second Montana
where Republican was elected to
the seat now held by Representative
Jeanette Rankin, unsuccessful Inde-
pendent candidate for the Senate
were received yesterday.
On the face of now complete un-
official returns the political line w
of the next House is as follows: Re-
publcans 239, Democrats 1874, lnde-
pendent /, Socialist l.
Prospect of holding not less than
40 seats in the Senate, regardless OF
the outcome of the Idaho contest
place the Republicans in position
to take control of the Senate from
] the Democrats and reorganize it
With 49 votes necessary to control,
however, Republican leaders realize
THAT organizations will depend upon
unbroken partisan alignment.
They recall that, even before the
Democrats swept into control OF the
Senate with PresdentWilson's inau-
guration in 1918, they had major
lity of the Senate, but were unable
because of the Republican factional
| ldemection to elect former Senator
Gallinger, President pro tempoEe.
When thenew Senate convenes Mar.
next, however such difficulties, ac-
cording to RRepublican leaders, are
: not expected.
Republican control of both Senate
and House and harmony of action
between the Republicans of both
bodies are expected to have much ef-
| feet on legislative policies.
Like the reorganization of the
House, Republican organization of
the Senate affects chairmanships and
majority control OF committees be-
sides legislation. Seniority of SER
vice is the almost unbroken preced-
ent in the Senate as in the House, of
electing committee chaimen.
With the Republicans holding in
tact their mapority to organize the
Senate, Senator Lodge of Massachu-
sets, under the seniority rule would
succeed Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska as head of the foreign rela-
|tions committee.
Although the belief here now is
that the peace treaty will be rati-
fled before Democratic control ends
this committee will have many i'm
portant neutrality-suspicious..
Heading the powerful Senate fl
nance committee, with its jurislc-
tion over bond and tax legislation,
would be Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania, in place of Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina.
Senator Warren of Wyoming Is
expected 10 head The appropriations
committee of wl:ch Scrator Martin
of virs'. a. now Dem ocratic ltader,
| Is chairman. MI. Warren IS senior
member of the military and agricul-
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