Evening star., 1922-11-09
Latest Returns
Fail to Help
Democrats.
STILL in DOUBT
in ONE DISTRICT
Many Ex-Members
Succeed in Re-
gaining Seats.

With only one district in doubt, the
republicans hold control of the House
with 224 seats. against 207 for the
democrats and a scattering OF three
one socialist. one farm-labor and one
independent.
The only district now in doubt is
the third Kansas, which is the old
district which has been held for TWEEN
ty consecutive years by Representa-
tive Philip P. Campbell. chairman of
the House rules committee.
There the ballot boxes for two pre-
Cincts are being held. 1t is claimed
that Charles Stephens. democrat. is
there leading w. II. Sproul, repub-
lican, by two votes.
Two other districts. which have been
in doubt, show Edward NJ. Beers. re-
publican, elected in the eighteenth
Pennsylvania district. which was held
for fourteen years by Representative
Benjamin X. Focht. now chairman OF
the House District committee, and an
upset in the first Nebraska district
held for eight years by c. Frank
Reavis, who recently resigned to be-
come assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral in the prosecution of war fraud
cases. Mr.. Reavis, at the time he left
Congress. was a member of the joint
committee I, reorganization of the
administrative branch of the federal
government He is succeeded by John
H. Moorehead. democrat.
Tabulations from the late returns
show that the republicans have solid
delegations from the following states:
Washington. Iowa, South Dakota.
Utah, Vermont, North Dakota. New
Mexico. Maine, Idaho and Wyoming.
Steenerson's Defeat Surprise.
A late surprise in the election re-
turns was the defeat of Representa-
tive Halvor Steenerson, chairman of
the House committee on post offices
and post roads, in the ninth Minnesota
district, who was defeated hy knud
Wefald, farmer la hor candida's. Min
nesota also furnished another i'm
portant upset when Representative
Andrew J. Volstead, chairman OF the
of the prohibition enforcement law.
was defeated by o. j. Kvale. inde-
pendent. Thus Minnesota Is the only
state in which a chairman OF an i'm
portant House committee vas defeat
ed in the election Tuesday.
Former Members Returned.
A feature of the election was the
return to Congress of many former
democratic members who were de-
feated in the republican landslide two
years ago. These include such men
Isaac r. Sherwood of Ohio. Robert
Crosser of Ohio, Thomas l.. Rubey
of Missouri. John ]. Egan and D. F.
Minahan of New Jersey and w. A.
Ayres of Kansas.
Representative Elliott w. Sproul, re-
publican, in the third Illinois district,
was reelected, according to late returns
although the reports yesterday showed
that he had been defeated. Representa-
tive Sproul is a close personal friend OF
Chairman Madden of the House appro-
priations committee. and one of the most
active men on the House District COM
mittee.
Samuel WinslOw Wins.
The late returns assure the re-elec-
tion of Samuel Winslow of MaSSachu
setts. chairman of the House committee
on interstate and foreign commerce,
who Is fathernig railroad reform leg
islation. Representative Winslow had
a close contest with William II. Dyer,
we'll known throughout the country as
q base ball player
j. Mayhem Wainwright is one Of the
prominent Washington men elected
as a member of the House in the next
Congress. He is assistant secretary
of war, and elected from the twenty
fifth New York district, running on
the republican n-prohibition ticket.
Representative Evans Defeated.
OF unusual Importance to residents
of the District is the defeat of Rep
resentative Robert f. Evans, repub-
lican, in the third Nebraska district,
who surrenders his seat to his demo-
cratic opponent Representative Evans
is one of the conferees on the District
appropriation bill, and it was largely
through his insistence that appropri-
atoms were made available for con-
Falls to the District line, to give the
National Capital an adequate water
supply.
Representative William E. Andrews,
republican. of Nebraska, who has been
a resident of the National Capital for
about a quarter of a century. is an
other conspicuous figure who fell by
the wayside in the election. Repre-
sentative Andrews first came to Con-
gress on March 4. 1895. After serving
dent Mckinley as auditor for the
United States Treasury Department.
and served continuously in that posi-
tion for eighteen years.
Clarence A. Cannon Elected.
There is much qualification around
the Capitol over the election OF Roo
ert II. Clancy, democrat. in the hrst
Michigan district. Mr.. Clancy served
as an employe at the Capitol for
many years and was for several years
private secretary to Assistant Secrs-
tary of Commerce Sweet, in the Red
field administration of that depart
ment Many people in Washington
are also Dl6aSeO "lIH tne clcCtiON W.
Clarence A. Cannon, former parlia-
mentarian to Speaker Clark and who
In now engaged in compiling the Con-
gressional Diges'. MIR. Cannon Is
elected to succeed Theodore w. Hulk
riede. who defeated Champ Clark two
years ago.
"Dryer Than Dry"
volstead. author Of the prohibition
enforc cement law, was the only re-
publican committee chairman to go
down, but he fell before an inde-
pendent minister-candidate, self pro-
claimed dryer than himself. This
fact often was overlooked by those who
professed to see in the defeat Of Vol
stead punishment for the dry law.
While they had been expected to
take q 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. Miss Alice Robertson of Okla
homa will go out then, along with
Miss Winifred Mason Houck of Illinois.
elected Tuesday to fill the term Of her