Evening star., 1924-11-05
Net Gain of Is Seats
Made by G. %. p.
Lower Chamber.
GET ALL DELEGATION
FROM PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats Gust Rivals i'm
Only Three Districts,
Reports Show.

The House in the new Congress
(the Sixty-Ninth) will be safely Re
publican-that is. the Republicans
will have majority no matter If
the La Toilette following any
bloc group attempts to be obsterep-
erous as during the period Of organ
ization in the last session.
This was strongly forecast today
with complete returns in from 341 out
of the 435 districts comprising the
House
Gain of I4 Seats.
Thus far the Republicans have a
net gain of 10 seats. The Republi
cans captured the following seats
now held by Democrats in the pres
.nt Congress (Sixty-e -ei ghth): First
New Hampshire: twelfth. fourteenth,
seventeenth. nineteenth, twenty-sec-
ond and thirtieth Pennsylvania: ninth
and twenty first Ohio; third, fourth,
eighth and ninth New f.rsey: first
Michigan: the one seat in Delaware;
fifth Connecticut. sixth Illinois and first
Indiana. The Democrats wrested three
seats now occupied by Republicans
fourth and eighth Ohio and the four
teenth New York.
The biggest upset came in Pennsyi-
House held by Democrats We're recap
tured by the Republican opponents.
Four of the six seats the Democrats
have from New Jersey also have been
returned to the Republicans.
Fare III in New England.
Only two New England States-Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island-will have
Democratic Representatives in the next
House as compared with four at pres
ent. The Democrats lost one seat each
in Connecticut and New Hampshire.
but retained their one in Rhode Island
and their three in Massachusetts.
The House will have to elect a
Speaker when the new Congress meets.
This is made necessary by Speaker Gil
lett not being a candidate for the
House. He has been elected to the
Senate from Massachusetts, defeating
Senator David | Walsh, Democrat.
Late returns show a surprise in the
fifth Maryland district heId in the
Republican column for a quarter OF
a century by Representative sydney
l.. Mudd, father and son. The late
Representative Sydney E Mudd, jr..
died suddenly in mid campaign. His
brother. who had been his campaign
manager, Thomas b. r. NIudd, was
selected to carry on the fight. He
was defeated ny the Democratic
nominee, stephen w. Gambrin, for
both the uneXpired term and the full
term.
The Oldest man who ever occupied
a seat in the House Representative
Isaac r. Sherwood of Ohio. who first
came to Congress in the Forty third
Congress. when Uncle Joe" Cannon
also made his debut, was defeated
by former Representative w. W.
Chalmers CRepublican).
At least one woman, Mrs. Mary T.
Norton. Democrat. will be a member
of the next House. She was elected
in the twelfth New Jersey district.
taking the seat now occupied by
Representative Charles F. Y. Brien, a
member of the House.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
OF Ohio. the Republican leader in the
House and Representative Finis ].
Garrett of Tennessee, the minority
leader are returned. Representative
w. A. Oldfield of Arkansas, Democra-
tic whip in the House. and Repre-
sentative John \. Garner of Texas,
ranking Democrat on the House ways
and means committee, both were re-
turned. Another Texas winner was
Thomas l.. Blanton Democrat a
storm center in the House in recent
years. who is ranking Democrat on
the House District committee.
The residents of the National Cap
ital are particularly gratified by the
reelection of Representative Fred
y. Zihlman of Maryland, who has been
acting chairman of the House District
committee and who is expected to
be chairman in the new Congress,
since Representative Stuart T.. Reed
of West Virginia, who was confined 10
his home by illness during the entire
last session of Congress, was not a
candidate for reelection
~F
House District committee are re
elected. This includes: Republicans
I.ampert, Wisconsin; Keller, Minnesota
Underhill, Massachusetts: FITZGERALD
Ohio; Mcleod, Michigan: Gibson, Yer
mont; Beers, Pennsylvania; Rath-
bone, Illinois. and Stalker, New York
Democrats = Sullivan, New York;
Blanton, Texas: Gilbert kentucky:
Hammer. North Caroline; Kunz HH-
nois, and Gasque, South Carolina
Representatives Reed, West Virginia;
OBrien, New Jersey, and Jost, Mis-
souri,, were not candidates for re-
election, and Representative Everett
Kent of Pennsylvania was defeated
Representative Charles r. Davis
(Republican) of Minnesota, chairman
of the subcommittee on District ap-
preparations of the House appropria-
tions committee, was defeated in the
primary. Other members of the sub
committee on District appropriations
were reelected.
Other members who have taken
special interest in District legislation
were reelected, such as Representa-
tive Louis G. Cranton Republican,
of Michigan; Representative Ben
johnson (DemocraD of Kentucky and
Representative r. Walton Moore CDem-
ocraD of Virginia.
Nearly all of the Representatives
identified with the La Toilette bloc
during the last session are reelected.
All ten seeking election in Wiscon-
sin as Republicans were successful,
lille Berger. Socialist was winner
in the fifth Wisconsin.
In Michigan James and Woodruff,
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