Bisbee daily review., 1922-11-09
INTEREST R|FE
 OVER RACE FUR
 HOUSE CONTROL
Whole Country Watches Nip and Tuck Struggle of Both
 Parties For Majority
VOLSTEAD LOSES SEAT
Sudden Wiping Out of COP. Majority in House Astounds
 Republican Leaders

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-(By the As sociated Press)-The country today watched with intense interest the nip and tuck race for control of the house of representatives, the closest since the war days of 1916. It saw most of the Republican leaders stand up against the onslaught; it saw scores of men brought in by the Re publican wave two years ago to go out with the Democratic undertow. Volstead, author of the prohibition enforcement law was the only Re publican committee chairman, to go pendent minister-candidate, self pro- claimed dryer than himself. This fact often was overlooked by those who professed to see in the defeat of Volstead a punishment for the dry law.
 While they had been expected to take a big hand in the election, the women of the country were unable to elect one of their number in the helter-skelter race for seats. There will be no women in the next con gress. Alice Robertson of Oklahoma will go out then, along with Winifred Mason Huck of Illinois, elected yes terday to fill the term of her father, the late William E. Mason ex- piring next March.
 Mondell, for the last four years the Republican leader in the house, aspiring for the seat from Wyoming, went down in a vain race for the senate, and a new leader will arise
 h his place. Speaker Gillett, and Mann, and Madden-all' the big con- mittee chairman in fact save Vol stead, held their seats. Most of them never were in danger.
 Every Republican leader of the house has often declared during the last two years that the majority around TO at the start-was too big but none expected to see it cut so low and none seemed to fear that it would be cut below forty. But starting in the east, the Democratic wave began picking up seats, gath cred twenty three in New York, and then raced down the Atlantic coast, cutting across into Virginia, then i turned to the southwest, and doub- ling back into Pennsylvania, swept over into the middle west country. and toward the far west in the hope of finding enough upturns to keep ahead fthe Republican column com ing along behind.
 It was nearly noon before the i Republicans. racing for hours behind early Democratic victories got abreast of the enemy. Then for some hours the two parties see-sawed and the Republicans finally pulled to the : front. Only the vast majority of years ago saved them. The drift away from the administration was
 greater than they would have be ! lieved possible 10 years ago. Hours
 went by without bringing advantage i to Republicans or Democrats. Among i the last of the old timers to go was | McArthur, of Oregon, enmeshed in ! Klux Klan was said to have played ! a big hand against him. Stafford
 of Wisconsin, right hand man to
 Mann, of Illinois, the free lance of l the house. was bowled over by Vic tor Berger. the twice unseated SO
 cialist, who came back to take his
 old seat. He will be the lone Repre-
 sentative of the Socialist as Meyer , London of New York was overcome
 by a Democrat. Some of the big
 committees counted heavy losses
 among their members as one after
 another republican sitting member
 fell out of the fight.
 Cordell Hull. Tennessee author of the income tax law and now chair
 man of the Democratic national com
 mittee was among the Democrats
 who came back Henry T. Rainey
 of Illinois another Democrat high ir the party councils. was overturned after being out two years and many others who went out then won eas fly this year.