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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
REPUBLICAN CONTROL ON THE
WANE.
Especial Correspondence.)

WANE.
Especial correspondence
Washington, Nov. 20.-The size
OF the Democratic victory, accurate
ly forecasted, is better understood
when given in detail. The Repub-
lican majority of 1913 in the House
has been cut down to approximately
16 and the Republican majority in
the Senate Of "a has been cut to IL.
In addition to. these victories
Democratic candidates for Governor
were elected in thirteen states which
had Republican governors New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Colorado, Oregon, Arizona,
Nevada, New Mexico, and Tennessee.
Twenty-six states of the Union now
have Democratic governors, ma
jority OF two in all of the states.
The claim of the Republicans that
they control both House in the
Sixty-eighth Congress is purely
Pickwickian. AS matter of fact
they do not have actual control IN
either House. The balance Of pow
err between the Republicans and
Democrats is held by Progressives,
independents and Radicals.
It may be assumed that the ele-.
ment holding the balance of power.
will not cooperate with the Republic
can reactionaries in matters of'legis-
lation, and it may be assumed with
equal probability that the reaction
aries will not Acceptable progressive
or radical program 81 their nominal
Republican colleagues.
The Sixty-eighth Congress prom
Uses, therefore, to be one of the most
interesting and important of recent
years. It's record will undoubtedly
determine the domestic issues Of the
1924 campaign.
$3.50
The talk of ''reorganizing" the
Republican party and of ''reorganiz-
ing' the committees of Congress and
abolishing the seniority rule-much
of it in Republican, newspapers
may well be interpreted in the light
Of Senator La Follette's supremacy.
This reorganization" of their Con-
gress and their party is apparently
designed by the reactionary Repub-
I licans to eliminate La Toilette and
fBorah and all the recent accessions
h to their ranks. II the attempt at
exclusion of these men is made it is
almost certain to. provoke fatal
strife in the Republican ranks, but
the alternative of not undertaking
\ this elimination is fraught with
equal danger.
Something like twenty-five of the
men elected to the next House of
representatives by what are ordin-
arily Republican constituencies are
regarded as progressive-radicals or
radical-progressives- he exac t
shade of difference being left to de-
termination by their alignments and
performances.
Half the number of these political
outlanders would be>enough to jeo-
pardize Republican control of the
House and dash Republican hopes
of success in 1924. 1t is well with
in their power to defy the leaders in
Congress and the White House it
self, and to wreck the Republican
party if they are ignored or spurned
in the apportionment of committee
appointments.
< Returns from states which on.
November Z voted ON propositions to
provide bonuses to such of their
citizens as served in the World War
indicate that the next Republican
Congress will again be confronted
with the necessity of passing or de-
feating a soldiers adjusted compen-
sation. bill.
Four Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas and Oklahoma-have recorded
themselves in favor of additional
compensation for soldiers. All but
Oklahoma are normally Republican
states. All together. they have 81
Representatives and eight Senators
in Congress. Most of these Con-
gressmen are Republicans.
Radical and progressive Republi-
can Congfessmen elected in Western
States on November are already
talking of restoring the excess
profits taxes and the high surfaces
as means Of raising revenues, with
which tospay soldier bonuses from
the Federal Treasury. President
Harding and the Republican Sena-
tors who have been opposing further
compensation will have a hard time.
it is expected, in preventing bonus
bill from getting through the next
Congress-.
With the defeat Of Republican