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Show G.O. P. ELECTORAL VOTE 404 U REPUBLICANS GIN RECORD PARTY MARGIN Victors to Have 287 in Lower House to 137 Democrats Demo-crats SENATE MAJORITY WILL BE 59 T0-37 Belated Refurns May Enlarge Upon Success of G. 0. P. in Election NL'W YORK, Nov. 3. With the. si.e of President-K'.o'.t Harding s elec- toral vote virtually settled at 404 put) of a possible 531 and the complexion ( of the. new senate set down BS Re-; publicans and 37 Democrats. Kepubli-' can leaders today awaited belated re- j turns on eiffht contests In six states to fix the cxa-jt size of the Republican Republi-can house majorit . BjcclUBlon of. the eight undetermined undetermin-ed soit. m th-: lower house, the Republicans Re-publicans had 2'7 members tn 137 Demo rats and four of other deslgna-Lkons, deslgna-Lkons, .' plurality of 150 the gretesl eve,- iii'ffi n ap POJ ty In the houae. I'l uiaresl opprbjvt'h to n was in the1 fifty-second congress, when the T,cmo-era T,cmo-era 1 M ni n lead of i 'iltli I'XKT II UtGl.N Republicans appeared to be assured of belter than an even break on the elglu outstanding seats Wlilch would give thehl a record tiart margin In the house. The snts slill In doubt were the fourth Maryland district, eighth Minnesota, fifth Missouri, lfih. 81st, and .'3rd New York, and first; North Dakota. A further possible Democratic upset up-set appeared possible In 'he fourth' Tennessee district where W. I. louse, I Republican. was reported to have forged slightly ahead of Cordel Hull, earlier reported elected. The .venatf majority wa srtled .liH night when belated returns from the BJlOUntaln regions of Kentucky gave the Republican candidate, Richard P-! K.riim. victory over Senator Beckham Democrat. j M 1 1 X l X R im BUI N. Montana's four electoral votes fell, definitely Into the Harding column when returns from 1227 precincts out of the total of M2 gave the Republican Repub-lican candidate a bad of 44,690. With North Dakota's five electoral votes counted last night when Democratic leaders admitted they bad given up' hope of carrying the state, the add)-1 tlon of Montana brought the tiatdlngj total up to the 404 mark Yesterday's count In Oklahoma as-' suied the nation's new women voters OMe representative In the lower lioUSe Miss Alice Robertson, of Muskdgee, a farmer and restaurant owner. Miss Robertson was nn anii-snffraglst prior; to the adoption of tin- nineteenth amendment, and made the congrea-SlOnal congrea-SlOnal race "to see If the men meant It" when ''they thrust the vote on us"' |