Evening star., 1922-11-08
Farmer-Labor
teinUpper
Branch.
MANY VETERANS
PASSING OUT
Fifty Districts S
"7et to Be
Decided.

The republican party will control
both Senate and House in the Sixty
eighth Congress. which comes into
being after the present Congress ex-
pires March 4 next, according to the
returns from yesterdays election.
But the huge majority which the re-
publicans have in both houses Of the
present Congress has been fiattened
out, stepped on, by an onrush of dem
ocratic votes in every part of the
Union. In the Senate the republican
majority has been reduced almost to
the danger point. In the House. an
exact count cannot yet be given. ow-
ing to the fact that a considerable
number of districts still remain to be
heard from. II is estimated. however
that the republicans will have a safe
majority.
5: G. O. p. Senate Seats.
The republicans will have ffty-two
seats in the Senate; the democrats
forty-three and the farnler-labOr
party. one. in the next Congress. on
the face of the returns so far re-
Ceived. This means gross loss OF ten
seats by the republicans, and net
loss of eight.
held by democrats in Nebraska, where
X. b. Howell defeated Senator Hitch
cock, democrat, and in Ohio. where
Representative Fess defeated Sem
ator Pomerene, democrat.
The democrats won seats now held
by republicans in Delaware. Indiana,
Maryland. Michigan, New Jersey, New
York. West Virginia and probably in
North Dakota and Washington.
The farmer-labor party has prob
ably won the senatorial contest in
Minnesota. where. on the latest re-
turns, Henrik Shipstead, farmer-iabor
candidate. had 4s.273 votes to 39.949
for Senator Kellogg. republican. and
1929 for Mrs. Olesen. democrat.
In two states. where the democrats is
there is still a chance that republican
gains may be made. though the demo-
cratic nominees are running ahead on
the returns so far received.
Sixty Republicans Now.
The makeup of the present Senate
is sixty republicans and thirty six
democrats. The result of the election
be necessary for the republicans to
count noses closely when it comes to
putting forward measures. something
which has not been necessary in the
last two years with their overwhelming
majority in the Senate. There will be
at least five called progressives on the
republican side. Borah. Johnson. La
Toilette. Norris and Brookhart, who,
with the farmer-la Dor senator, Ship
stead, will hold the balance Of power
in the Senate. They will be able, II
the six Of them act together. to control
the action of the Senate to a large
extent. if the democrats hold solidly to-
gether.
One effect which the drastic change
in republican ranks in the Senate,
with consequent democratic gains.
may have in the next Congress is to
bring about the ousting of Senator
Newberry of Michigan. who was
charged with having won his seat
against Henry, Ford. democrat, by ex-
cessive expenditures of money. When
the Senate voted January IL last on
the proposal to oust Senator New
berry the vote stood 46 to II. All
of the democrats were in favor of
ousting Mr.. Newberry. except one. the
late Senator Tom Watson of Georgia,
who refrained from voting. With the
change in the makeup OF the Senate
now promised. it. seems probable the
vote would go against the Michigan
Senator. Senator La Toilette of Wis
consin has declared he intended to
bring the matter up al the next Con-
gress.
Lodge Victory Close.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the
republican leader has been reelected by
a few votes less than 1000. running be-
hind the state ticket by many thou
sands. CASTOR. the democratic nomi-
nee. has announced he will demand a
recount of the ballots.
Republicans senator's who are
slated to vanish from the Senate
after March 4. include Townsend OF
Michigan, New of Indiana, who waS
defeated for nomination by Beveridge
who in turn lost to the democratic
nominee. Ralston; France of Mary
land. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey.
Calder of New York: Sutherland of
West Virginia, and probably Kellogg
of Minnesota and Poindexter o.
Washington. Senator McCumber OF
North Dakota lost the nomination t..
Frazier, a non-partisan Lacquer, and
apparently Frazier has been defeated
by O'Conner, the democratic nominee.
Two veteran democrats. Hitchcock
of Nebraska and Pomerene of Ohio.
will not be in the new Congress. 1t
the fight for the league of nations.
He has been defeated by Howell. the
republican national committeeman OF
Nebraska.
Representative Mondell of Wyo-
ming, republican floor leader of the
ceived. has lost in his race for the
Senate to Senator Kendrick. demo-
crat.
G. O. p. Majority still Safe.
Tho republicans maintain a safe
majority in the House. despite fifty
four assured gains by the democrats,
on returns already received, with
more than thirty districts yet unde-
cided.
The House now stands 296 republi-
can, 130 democrats, one socialist and
eight vacancies. With 218 necessary
for majority the democratic
strength, according to a compilation
based on reports received up to noon,
will be 1872 members.
The sitting socialist. Representative
Myer London of New York, was de-
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