Show THE LANDSLIDE CONGRESS the afif fifty ty fourth congress Is a landslide congress elected in the iba t of it will consist of republicans lot democrats and 6 populists lists tg one silver and one gnp vacant the republicans will constitute more than two thirds of the house membership the republican majority will be divided as follows new Bai england baitland gland states 26 old middle states 28 middle western states 93 92 far western states 28 southern states 32 the democrats secure only thirteen members in the northern states Calif ointa and massachusetts chu contribute one each illinois ohio and pennsylvania two each and new york five the democrats secure six solid state delegations those of arkansas florida georgia louisiana mississippi and south carolina the republicans secure nineteen solid delegations gat ions those of connecticut delaware idalio indiana iowa maine michigan minnesota montana new hampshire new jersey north dakota oregon rhode island south dakota vermont washington west virginia and wisconsin twenty eight contests may be made from southern states and a majority of them are to be instituted titu ted by republican candidates against against democrats the appointment of committees by the speaker wll will probably be earlier this year than usual as mr reed certain of his election la 19 said already to have made up the lists this may enable congress to beat the records of years past arid anil do rome business before the christmas holidays owing to being presidential election year it is generally believed the session of this congress will lie be a short one among the questions to be bc discussed as baity polley policy will be free silver the tariff hawaii venezuela cuba bond issues and the perennial pension laws an ali authorization of low interest bonds to meet tile the treasury deficiency Is predicted as the only financial legislation the will tackle as that sort of legislation Is ig too ticklish for an ante campaign session the most interesting te personality in the house will tie be lie he Is a candidate for prest president and as euch his en enemies emle in his own party the backers of harrlson AleX mckenley hiley ft et al are expected to la lay all manner of pitfalls and traps for I 1 him ill the session may make or break h him m senator cullom of illinois does not believe tile the coming session will bring bing forth any party issues as the coun arys business Is 19 too unsettled to make tinkering with the tariff or finances safe congress will vill not b be e in session two days beaure the die sliver silver qi question jestion will lii bt under discussion says rays the senator and that subject will teeter up tip and lown like two boys on a a mank all a I 1 I 1 durne I 1 tile the sa session acin very little real work and lots of buncombe speeches for campaign purposes ls la the senators forecast of the session THE the senate will start stand 42 democrats 21 39 6 aall if pr er tho the republicans will try iry to jeorga reorganize the senates little official world Is it a question to do RG G they jhc thc y would have to make deals with the populists lists and free silver senators which might act as boomerangs in ill the campaign of oc ag besides the vice president will pro side any way and the reorganization would affect the subordinate officers only many senator Renato iia think tile kame game not worth the candle tho most ale picturesque tur esque que figure in the new senate will lie be the lory flory senator tillman of north calolina Cai Ca oHna tolina and lovers of the drama are predicting ircia things when lie he falls afoul of the sharp tongued chandler of f new hampshire much interest will attach to the four adds as ill the muse bas aaa come to call its is youngest members those these tire are george 11 mcclell n and william sulzer of new yolk city and lat M W howard of port fort payne ala and charles A towne of duluth minn mr mcclellan was born on november 23 and la Is the son of gen george 13 mcclellan to 0 of antietam Antl mine lie ile has haa been a reporter treasurer of the brooklyn Gro oklyn bridge and president of the board 0 of aldermen ot of new york lie he la Is a lawyer and la Is a tammany Dem democrat ocra william sulzer Is another he Is 13 31 years old ho he studied law in new york city and has been in polities Cs for the past six years As speaker 0 of the assembly nt at albany he made a sort of czar record and later as leader ot of the democratic minority in tile the assembly established a reputation as an orator tammany Is said to be nursing him film in hopes of making another orator like bourke cockran out of him mr howard Is 32 years old and a populist or as lie he la Is called sometimes in hla his own state a renegade democrat lie he la Is a lawyer enjoy enjoying ins a good practice at lort fort l ort payne howard left tile the democratic party ft a year and a halt half ago on the silver question A populist republican publican Rc fusion r elected him by ile he Is the author ot of the hie scorching book it if chilst came to congress ile he proposes propos vs to make the fur lly fly in congress sq anil and liaa has alicade announced that lie will introduce a resolution railing calling for an investigation into the means by which president cleveland Clevell nd ll 11 haa q aill amassed assed tile fortune mr air howard says niya lie now low enjoys filco sulzer of new york howard Is tall and well proportioned ile he Is swarthy ani an l smooth shaven representative towns towne graduated from ann arbor in SRI practiced practice law lit in chicago arid and moved to duluth in 1890 for ten years year he has been a hustling republican ills his friends expect much of him whether the personnel of the capitol has been improved or riot not the bull building itself has the committee rooms and the barbershop barber shop attachment of the konate have been rearranged and a beautiful and very expensive electric light plant has replaced tile the air vitial ing old gas chandeliers anil and the entile ventilating apparatus has been renovated |