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Show CONGRESS REPUBLICAN IS : FORECAST; LITTLE DOUBT' OF A WORKING MAJORITY Canvass of Country Snows Doubtful Districts Favorable Favor-able to Dominant Party; Latest Oddsjn Result. LATEST PRESIDENTIAL ODDS I 6 to 1 in Favor of Roosevelt. The Odds in Other Campaigns j 1S8S 2 to 1 in favor of Cleveland. Harrison won. g 1S92 2 J to 1 int favor of Harrison.- Cleveland won. 1 1S90 2 to 1 in favor of McKinley. McKinley won. $ 1900 5 to 1 in favor of McKinley. ilcKinley won. NEW YORK. Nov. l.-The next House of Representatives will be Republican beyond doubt, according to conservative estimates. There are plenty of doubtful districts scattered all over the United States, but not enough to give the Democrats Dem-ocrats much of & chance of wiping out the existing Republican majority of thirty-four In a total membership of 3S8 In the popular branch of Congress. On the contrary, a Republican majority major-ity of from twenty to forty Is figured out. Doubt Is Eliminated. Durlns the last sixty days there has been a steady elimination of doubtful districts and in almost every case the doubt has been settled in, favor of the Republican candidate, the fights in the Congressional districts following closely on the heels of the .Presidential campaign. cam-paign. A conservative estimate gives the Republicans Re-publicans 1S9 to 157 Democrats, and forty districts doubtful. This Indicates not less than twenty majority in the ' next House of Representatives, and there is every indication that it may run as high as forty, although the latter figure la probably extravagant. On the whole, there will not be a great deal of change from the representation, of the two parties in the present House. All the reports indicate slight Repub- . lican gains In the Congressional districts In New York City, one or two In Chicago, Chi-cago, one in Minnesota, a possible gain In Iowa of a single district, another indicated in-dicated gain In Ohio, and possible losses of isolated districts In Wisconsin. Colorado Colo-rado and gains will nearly balance. How Result Is Figured. According to current reports, the present pres-ent prospect of the Republican securing secur-ing the next House of Representatives it made practically certain because, on figuring up the reasonably sure Republican Repub-lican districts, throughout the country. It is found that the total is within five of a majority of the House. This estimate is based on ' reports ' showing that there are now forty dls-trlcts dls-trlcts in the Northern States which can be fairly considered doubtful. In at least a third of these doubtful districts, if not half, the chances favor the Republicans, and thus a majority for that party is clearly forecasted so far as anything can be indicated In advance ad-vance of the actual counting of the ballots. |