Show THE SENATE tiie THE missouri democrat estimates that the senate after impending elections will have 44 publican republican Ee members of whom 5 will be independents pen dents 29 democrats and one vacancy or with the admission of pinchbeck the republicans will have 45 a majority of 16 as against the democracy the republicans confidently expect to hold tho the senate against the democrats forat least two years from march ath 1877 of the 26 senators whose terms expire on that date 16 are republican most if not all of whose constituencies will return republicans again to the senate this and other calculations will leavo the democrats at that time with 32 senators out of 74 the democrat thinks there is no possibility of a democratic senate earlier than march 4 1879 unless a avery very serious change of public opinion occurs in the interim in that year 10 republica republics erno ernil ernol erni 1 go out whose constituencies navo novo V 0 receL recently itly goue over to tile tho opposition the conclusion is drawn therefore that this thia decidedly republican complexion of the senate for another four years will have havo a great influence in the matters of the possible impeachment of the president the public appointments during that time the determining eter mining of the next presidential election and the character of the congressional legislation for the next two congresses or four sessions of that body |