Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1911 — The Political Complexion of The New United States Senate. [ARTICLE]

The Political Complexion of The New United States Senate.

The most important political event of the new year will be the election of United States senators by the various state legislatures to complete the upper house of the Sixty-second congress. The- new senate will be composed of fifty-one republicans and forty-one democrats, as against fiftynine republicans rad thirty-three democrats in the last congress—a net gain of eight seats for the democrats. (In the house, according to the returns of the election of Nov. 8, the democrats will have a majority of sixty-five.) Of thirty senators whose terms will expire on March 3rd next, twenty-four are republicans and six democrats, rad the various state legislatures elected on Nov. 8 last, will choose their successors. There will also be senators chosen to fill the vacancies caused by the deaths of Senator Dolliver, of lowa (rep.). Senator Thompson, of North Dakota (dem.), rad Senator Clay, of Georgia (dem.), making a total of thirty-three to be elected. Of the thirty-three, seventeen will be republicans and sixteen democrats, representing s gain of nine seats for the democrats and one for the republicans. The states where the senatorial toga will fall from republican to democratic shoulders are Indiana, Montana, New York, Nebraska, Ohio, New Jersey, Maine, West Virginia rad Missouri. The one republican gain occurred in North Dakota, where a republican successor will be choera to complete the unexpired term of the late Senator Thompson, democrat The legislature of this state will also elect another United States senator to succeed Porter J. McCumber, whose term expires in March.