Evening star., 1922-11-07
NATION AWAITING
ELECTION RESULTS
Citizens Choosing Congress-
men, Governors and Other
Officials Today.
ENTIRE NEW HOUSE UP
Over One-Third of Membership of
Senate to Change-32 Guber-
material Contests.
ENTIRE new HOUSE UP

The voters of the United States to-
day are electing an entire House OF
Representatives.. little more than one
third Of the membership of the Senate.
and governors in thirty-two states.
They are voting also upon proposed
amendments to state constitutions. In
several Of the states-Ohio. Massachu-
setts. California and Illnois-referen
dums on the prohibition question are be-
ing taken.
Today is the second occasion in the
history Of the country that American
women of voting qualifications as a
whole are permitted to take part in
the national election. Two years ago.
when they first voted. it was found
that they voted much as the men Of
their families were doing.
Voting for 435 Members.
The voters are electing 435 men,
bers of the House. The present
House is made up of 296 republicans,
1870 democratic, one socialist and eight
vacancies. 1t is expected that the
will cut down to a con-
siderable extent the republican ma
jority in the House.
Thirty-seven senator's will have
been selected at the close of today's
voting. including one from Maine,
Senator Frederick Hale. republi-
can, who was reelected September
IL. Ordinarily only thirty-two sena-
tors would have been elected, a third
of the Senate, but deaths and resigna-
tions made necessary the election of
five additional senators.
Senator's Being Elected.
In Delaware a successor to former
Senator Wolcott. democrat, who re-
signed. is being elected for the term
expiring March 8. 1923. now held.
through appointment. by T. Coleman du
Pont, republican. and also a senator is
being elected for the term ending March
3. 1929. In Georgia a successor to the
late Senator Tom Watson, democrat,
is being elected for the term expir-
ing March 8, 1927. now held by ap-
pointment by Mrs. w. H. FELTON,,
democrat. In Iowa a successor to
Judge William S. Kenyon. resigned.
Is being elected for the term ending
March 3. 1925, now held, through ap-
pointment, by Senator Charles A.
RaWSOn, republican. In Pennsylvania
successors to the late Senators Will
liam E. Crow and Boies Penrose, both
are being elected These
seats are now being held, through ap-
pointment, by Senator David A. Reed
and Senator George Wharton Pepper,
both republicans and both candidates
to succeed themselves.
Take ONCE March 4.
The elections today will have no
bearing on the Congress which will
reassemble here either in special ses-
sion this month or the first Monday
of December in regular session, ex-
cept where the elections are being
held to fill unexpired terms now filled
appointment or where seats
are now vacant. The Congress being
elected today will come into being
March 4 next. although it may not
meet until the first Monday in De-
cember, 1929.
There Is keen interest in many of
the state elections. particularly in
New York, where Gov. Miller, repub-
lican. is opposed by former Gov.
Smith, democrat; in New Jersey.
where the wet and dry issue is being
fought out, Gov. Edwards, democrat,
the "wets" in the contest
against Senator Frelinghuysen, re-
publican, for the seat in the Senate.
VOTE EARLY IN NEW YORK.