Evening star., 1924-11-07
REPUBLICANS WIN
246 HOUSE SEATS
Absolute Control of Lower
Branch of Congress As +
sured by Victory.

With only one congressional dis
/ trict yet in doubt. at large in New
Mexico. the Republicans will have
| 246 seats in the House in the new
(Sixty ninth) Congress, while the
Democrats have 1873, Farmer-Labor,
| 3, and Socialists, .. This means alb
solute and complete Republican con-
troll, with an increase of 81 above
| their present strength, 2S above a
majority and 81 more than all Dem
ocrats Farmer-Labor and Socialists
combined.
the only one in New Mexico. where
! tive John Morrow. Democrat, but the
trend in the election there is toward
the Republicans.
! The Democrats lost 27 seats in the
House and gained only four.
ProgresSives Hold Own.
None of the gains, by either Re-
publicans or Democrats, were made
against the so-caiied "Progressives"
or independents" or La Toilette
crowd.
One of these insurgents-La Guardia
of New York. city-was reelected on
the Socialist ticket and with Victor
Berger of Milwaukee will constitute
the House membership of that party.
In three Minnesota districts Farmer
Labor candidates were successful,
one of them capturing a seat now
held By a Republican.
The Democrats gained in the
eighth Ohio, fifth Maryland, second
Kansas and eighth Missouri districts.
The Republican gains were made as
follows: First, New Hampshire; the
twelfth, fourteenth, seventeenth,
nineteenth, twenty-second and thir-
t:eth, Pennsylvania; the ninth, Ohio;
the third, fourth, eighth and ninth,
New Jersey; the first and eleventh.
Indiana; the fifth, Connecticut; the
first, Michigan; the sixth and twenty
first, Illinois: the third, Oregon; the
second, fourth and fifth, West Vir-
ginia; the fifth, thirteenth and four
teenth, Missouri, and the members at
large from Delaware and Nevada. =
Division by States.
The political division in the House
in the Sixty-ninth Congress, by
States, is as follows:
Alabama, 10 Democrats; Arizona, l
Democrat; Arkansas. Democrats;
California, > Democrats, RepubH-
cans: Colorado, Democrat, Repub-
licans; Connecticut, Republicans;
Delaware, l Republican: Florida,
Democrats; Georgia, II Democrats;
Idaho, 2 Republicans; Illinois, Demo-
Gratis, % Republicans; Indiana, 3
Democrats, 10 Republicans; Iowa, IL
Republicans; Kansas, Democrats, 6
Republicans; Kentucky, Democrats,
B Republicans; Louisiana, Demo-
Gratis; Maine, Republicans; Mary
land, Democrats, 2 Republicans;
Massachusetts,, 3 Democrats, 13 Re-
publicans; Michigan, 13 Republicans;
Minnesota, Z Republicans. 3 Farmer
Labor; Mississippi, Democrats.
Missouri. . Democrats, Z Republi-
cans; Montana, l Democrat, 1 Repub-
lican; Nebraska, Democrats, 3 Re-
publieans; Nevada, 1 Republican; /;
New Hampshire, Republicans; New
Jersey, 2 Democrats, 10 Republica ms ;
New Mexico, in doubt, Democrats
leading; New York, % Democrats, 20
Republicans, / Socialist; North Caro-
lima, 10 Democrats; North Dakota, 3
Republicans: Ohio, 6 Democrats, 16
/ Republicans; Oklahoma. Z Democrats,
/ Republican; Oregon, Republicans; 4;
Pennsylvania, 36 Republicans: Rhode
| Island, Republicans, / Democrat:
South Carolina, Democrats; South
Dakota, 3 Republicans: Tennessee, 8
Democrats, Republicans; Texas, II
| Democrats, / Republican,; Utah, Re-
publicans; Vermont, 2 Republicans;
| Virginia, 10 Democrats; Washington,
| i Democrat, Republicans; West Vir-
| ginia, 1 Democrat, Republicans;
|
ist; Wyoming. l Republican.
| Totals: Democrats, 1873; Republi-
! cans, 246; Farmer-Labor, 3; Social
| lists, 2; in doubt, 1-35.