Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1916 — ELECT 202 G. O. P. MEN FOR HOUSE [ARTICLE]

ELECT 202 G. O. P. MEN FOR HOUSE

Democrats Lose Floor I reader When New Defeats Kern For Senate— Lose 3 In Indiana. ‘New York, Nov. 8. —With thirty congressional districts to ibe heard from at 10:45 p. m., 202 republicans, 199 democrats, two progressives, one independent and one socialist have been elected to the Jiouse of representatives for the -sixty-fifth congress.

Of the thirty districts yet to be heard from, seventeen are represented in the present congress by democrats and thirteen by republicans. Should these districts be unchanged, the next house would be composed of 216 democrats, 215 republicans and four scattering, who might elect to affiliate with either-side.

In the senate four present democratic members have been defeated. They are Senators Kern, Taggart, of Indiana: Martine, of New Jersey, and Clinton, of West Virginia. Three republican senators, .Lippitt, pf Rhode. Island: Clark of Wyoming, and Sutherland, of Utah, also have lost their seats on the basis 'of the returns. —The defeat of Senator Kern, of In—diana, by Harry S. New, former chairman of the republican national committee, takes from the democartic organization its floor leader. The 3 situation in the house at this hour is so indefinite that it is impossible to declare whether the democrats will maintain control. Republican leader# are still hopeful of controlling the house. If they succeed, Minority Leader Mann will be their candidate for speaker of thehouse and Representative Fordney, of Michigan, will become the majority leader. In Indiana Cullop, Cline and Gray lost their seats.