Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1911 — Democrats In U. S. Senate Fear Effect of More Electors. [ARTICLE]

Democrats In U. S. Senate Fear Effect of More Electors.

Democratic U. S. senators. are not certain whether they want to pass the Crumpacker house measure providing for 433 members of the lower body or not. The passage would be favorable to the election of Champ Clark as speaker, but it is figured that it would increase the number of republican electors and thereby reduce the possibility of the election of a democratic president. The democrats of the house went in for the Crumpacker bill pell mell, but the senate scented danger and fear the “bogey” of additional membership. Each new member of the hoqse means another elector from the state which gets the new member. Therefore the party which is likely to carry the state in question wins a point in determining the politics of the next administration. Forty-two electoral votes, allowing the maximum to the republicans, would be redistributed as follows: * Republican—California, 3; Idaho, 1; Illinois, 2; Massachusetts, 2; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Montana, 1; New Jersey, 2; New York, 6; North Dakota, 1; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania. 4; Rhode Island, 1; South Dakota, 1; Utah, 1; Washington, 2, and West Virginia, 1. Total, 31. Democratic —Alabama, 1; Colorado. 1; Florida, 1; Georgia, 1; Louisiana, 1; Oklahoma, 1, and Texas, 2. Total, 11. This shows a net gain of twenty for the republicans. But if the democrats should carry the states in 1912 where they triumphed in the state and congressional elections last fall, they would profit by ths added electoral Votes in New York, New Jersey and West Virginia, a total of nine, giving them in the entire* * table, twenty, against twenty-two for the republicans.

Local merchants have been in somewhat of a quandry recently by the daily fluctuations in the prices of eggs and some days there have been shifts of from three to six cents a dozen in the quotations from the city markets. Under these conditions it has been difficult to fix a price fair to both seller and buyer. Monday evening’s Indianapolis News quoted the buying price there at 14 cents a dozen and the selling price of fresh eggs at 25 cents a dozen, which leaves a margin of 11 cents to do business on. Rensselaer merchants have been playing on a close margin and while one day’s morning price may be higher than that day’s buying market would justify, the merchant only holds it up until the morning market in Chicago 1b announced and then drops it, no matter how many higher priced eggs he may have purchased the day before. There was a 5 cent drop in the Chicago quotations between Monday and Tuesday and today Rensselaer merchants are able to pay only 13 cents cash, and they are selling them for 15 cents. That is even closer than it is Base to operate, but Rensselaer merchants always see to it that their customers get a square deal and they certainly are getting it in the egg business. By the way, eggs at 19 cents a dozen are about the cheapest eating we know of/ May biddy flood the market and let us get our fill. '