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Show MM ; " Vfjj I HTIlUliULINU lOIt IOMU0U Htfj i The political statue of tho next Unit-IB Unit-IB ed Btatea Henate la a matter that Is IB; attracting a greatdeal of attention and Hf I causing considerable! comment nowa-14 nowa-14 ' ds)s, andlhu tuterret In the subject j i Increases as tho uncertainty becomes 'Uli i mora pronounced. It Is a subject of B much more Importance than some H i peoplowoull aicrlbe to It, tho mere B J matter of iwlltlotl tiipremaoy tielng 1 thesmalhttpartof It. Itsiwmnmong other things, tint If the Itepubllcvia H 1 retain control of the upper house fur H the next two or four yean, tho respon- HI J tl blllty for all legislation which tho m i Itepubllcana conceded with eomothlug ft j amounting to gleo to the Democrats ffti aud which tbe latter wore willing to uffi assume, would not exist, and further- Bjjj more that the policy endorsed to strong- ffill lybythe wople In the lato election Ku oould not be carried out. UnJor any nK clrcuimtauces tliu Itepubllcana loulJ nH ' accomplish nothing of tbelronn, nor 1B could tho Dsuiocrats; It would bu a H continuous aee-iaw with nolhlng ao- H oomillsbed but a string of com- u f jromlKK, whereby both and uelther H ! would be accountable. ml : Thle Is hardly what tbcao who did ill', 1 the voting execlel and not exactly III ,1 whatthey ought to hao. If there It ft J any meaning at all In the "voice of tbo 11 I' ballot," Hit that tholteimbllciu iolloy I .11 waa disapproved and tbatbt thuDem- H J' ocratt wai lo beglveua trial. On the jg jj i faoo of tbe returns It seemed aa though H M ' this bad broil fully accomplished. y m There never was tuch an avalanche In Sv I tliuu of piaco in that which bore Mr. till (JleveUuduptu lta crest to victory; at a J ill 1 thu same time his pa-iy wss given I PI luorothun a two-thirds nujorlty Id the iM House of UiprLsentatlvts, aud It IjllBl teemed us If with tho aid of the fuslou liiifll movrment enough legislatures o' III j n! Untie which have llepubllcau aeuatort MINI whoto terms exilre next Manli hui vjliU been csjjIumJ to chaugothu upper 111 l house from Us present olltlcal betr- ill fl Ing'J Ibtiu were Xfcw Vork, WIscjii- lillj 'In, Calllernln, Kautas, jS'ebruaka, pjl )(l Moututiu, North Dakota and Wyo r'lllu' mlng. 'lhu lint two aio memo &j4i(' enough aud the third Is reasonably so, fjjjjjf but Iheio am not enough, nulling the 111 lot Senate stand Republicans 41, Dsmu- IHfH!' crt' (3llu,'n! y'i H. I).)ll, nud l)! L l'oople'j 1; In Ibis count Btowart of llll Nevada It classed with thu Itipubll- jjyjt vans. It was not expectid that Demo- I crats would lit clrote I In the ro I matnlng stalM, nxceptlng Minima Min-ima an I Wyomln,-, either one of which wjuli glvn them co.u-plttu co.u-plttu uinlrot with the uld of the Vlco-l'reildcul't oaitlng vole; but II they wore all taken from tho ItipJbll-cant ItipJbll-cant and i:lven to the Populists It would at least plan the former In the minority without giving tho Demo-cratalheaiseadanoy; Demo-cratalheaiseadanoy; In other words, the opposition ta Itepubllcanltm would rule all along the Hue as the people undoubtedly Intcnied, without, as waaalijexprctid, miking the Djm-orals Djm-orals exclusively retpons'.ble. All at once tho Ilepublictni nem to havec-iucluded that a slice oft" the loaf la belter tbaa no bread at all, an I lo that end aro preparing lo avail Ihrm-aelvcaot Ihrm-aelvcaot tho chance seemingly held out to tbu-n of electing theaenitoM In Ibe four doubtful elates, an I glett Is the InJIgnatloii lu Iljmocntlo circles theriat, A cojiicII of the clant was held roccntly anJ daubtlosa the law will be called upon and etutuitel tl avert thu ltepubllcau plan, and all lhu methods of tbe pilltlclan will be brouglit to bear as well. In Wyoming Wyo-ming the Ilepublloani bavc patteraol alter Ibe Democrats In MjQtttii by throwing out votct where to do to Is to change the apparent complexion of tho legislature. In Kautaa tho control hunupintho lisuo lu ono legislative district where the vote wus o tie; Mill thu Ilspubllcan canvassers propoied to settle by lot, but the opposition wuuli liavo none of II, and tbe b)ard went aheai mil alone, tbe result being nalurally, m tbo other ople would say, that tbo Ilspubllcan candidate was declared chosen. All these casea will osrtaluly remit In contests con-tests whichever way they may go, and aa tho Ucnatu la the eole Judge of the election aud pia!llloitlou of Its members, mem-bers, It la easily uudentool that tbe ptrly which lias firlmafacU control oil the fourth of March next will lave absolute control therea'tor for two yean at lean. This It tho way tho situation standi at pretint. In both Moutant and Wyoming tbo cnnvanlu;: lias bseii deferred landing legal procoellngt, thooljectof the Interruption In either case being to compel thu canvasser! to countaud certify up the vote as ess!. This If done In hothcara will make the next Henate Democratic that party gaining a touator from Wyoming and the Republican holding on lo the ono thoy already have In Montana. There Is no telling, bowover, whit tlieout-coino tlieout-coino limy U; If lhu Democrats can prove nil Ihey claim lo bo able to In Montana, tbey would teem to have n good enough case there; but the lost of both. Montana and Wyoming would settle the matter against them so far aa aeiarate coutrol of thu Benalo la concerned. |