Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — MAKE-UP OF CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

MAKE-UP OF CONGRESS

DEMOCRATS PROBABLY WILL CONTROL BOTH HOUSES. 1 Returns Indicate They Will Have Majority of 50 to 75 in Lower Body. Washington, Nov. 6. —While it will ■>e necessary to have more complete returns than already at hand to give my kind of an accurate complexion s£ the next congress, information so far received indicates a Democratic majority of from 50 to 75 in the lower house and a radical change in the senate after March 4. One of the biggest surprises was the slection of a Democratic legislature ia Massachusetts, which will elect a sue- 4 cessor to. Murray W. Crane. Mr. Crane was elected to the senate in 1904. A Democratic legislature in New York state probably Will also elect a successor to Senator Elihu Root, whose term expires in 1917. There is a bare possibility that Senator William P. Frye of Maine, the oldest member in the senate, will be succeeded by a Democrat. Returns so far received indicate the Democrats have carried that state by a good margin, and in that case will be called upon to select a successor to Mr. JYye>who has represented that state in the upper house of congress continuously since 1881. ? Present indications are that Democratic senators will be elected from Oregon, New Jersey, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, South Dakota. Delaware, Michigan and Wyoming' If these figures prove correct the next senate will stand: Democrats, 52; Republicans, 38.