Show as THE NEXT HOUSE OF TE prevailing uncertainty regarding the political complexion of the house of representatives of the fifty first Oong congress is a subject of great interest and constant comment on all hands bands the republicans still claim that their majority will be not got less than three and that it may go as high as seven while the democrats who seem en Willing to concede everything that has hap been fairly won do not yet admit that any majority appears on 1012 either slite side and this seems to be the case official returns as far as received show the election of republicans and democrats leaving only four districts to be heard from the fact that oat their footings have not yet been received shows that they are very close and may all go eo one way or the other in which case the party them would have a clear work jag majority beyond question but ut i if imey y are equally divided returning return ing two of each party the republicans will have one majority only it will thus be seen that toe tae democrats must have carried at least three of these districts to retain control of the house the passivity of the democratic man ager salud one might say with the party their apparent willingness to give up whatever nas been airey fairly airly won on the other othe r side would seem to be a guarantee gaa rantee against unfairness or anything savor savoring i ng of 0 revolutionary methods but bat at the bare mention or of such a thing as the possibility of the next house of representatives containing a minority of republicans Republic ane aue certain lights of the party become frantic and their language so explosive and threatening that they are painful to listen to prominent among these is the editor of the new york mail and express col eliott F sheppard As a bibliopole and pugilist in one ne jie certainly eclipses tac record he recently gave the democrats that what lost jost the ballot box they should not regain by fraud and threatened bloodshed blood sned and a tumult all around if the majority in the house should not be foundoe found on the he to him right side the colonel is somewhat noted for style ot of expression using it indiscriminately against everybody and anything ua fortunate lort enough to be in a different position or hold hola varying views from his own he has repeatedly discharged some of his py r phil lipics in this diree direction tiu n but the only imp impression produced so far as heard beard from is tile the general belief that the author of them is troubled with a disordered liver his sallies invariably bl provoke more ridicule tiia than alarm cie the greatest scheme so tar far fore shadowed is that in the event oi of a republican majority in the house they will not take so desperate a chance as waiting till next december before grasping the spoils and putting the machinery in motion it is openly charged by the leading democratic papers and so ao far not denied by those of the other side that a special session is to be called immediately immedi atey after the coli collapse apse of the present Own gress on the fourth of next march really lor for the purpose of organization but ostensibly for important public business left unfinished such as we the admission of bakota dakota etc the speaker being chosen and the committees appointed on a republican basis they would remain during the entire congress no matter it by some unforeseen chance tile the democrats should subsequently control is not so sa remote a coat contingency in geicy as cusay might suppose for there are several members of very advanced years aad some with lingering ailments in a foody amdy of men averaging nemond age the me lor for at ac least two or three going over to the silent majority a years time are could considerable erable A gr greater eliter bamber among fewer members me gabers has been ye re corded all such conting contingencies engles ron be set at rest bf y immediate organization and iben theo we te party i in power can make its jorita euma enough by vigorously clyl applying the ithe contest plan to place wait pt beyond dau dancer ger f from rom any source it looks at tats ariti writing ng as though the at status of one majority for tile the blicaus bli cans would be maintained that it will be either that or three if anything 4 pad nd this is a desperately dose close game to depend upon holding out as it stands for a full twelve months to come heric tion between the contending boats that will bp be engendered gedde ea by rew ren of t the dubiety wo ro sw ji certainly be J an U mind and counter coan it er p oki 9 t L be 4 Q we wb have haid had fiance t tiie Blae wl goasa sa all thin behe e cans may he reek ahot q kheir i h host ost at alt t mt w P jeanor for I 1 president Harn Harri sonto dispose dispa Ae ae tte and he only can call the house together 0 fi extraordinary session and whether he will do so unless there is sufficient public cause for it in his 0 att lid dement ment is very doubtful his utterances 41 ep A ftc v far indicate that he is not going 0 af toen is extremist nor lend himself to hie clev clea weepers by any walls |