| Show THE SEW STAR STAB the effects of the elections in utah upon the complexion of the united states state congress are not act forth by the be republican pu biloan ban francisco chronicle in the subjoined sub joined editorial comments comment utah la is to come into the union as a a state adding another star to the flag and taking rank with states which had bad an existence when she ahe was only part of what whai used to be called the great american desert as though it were a second sahara of course that myth was exploded 4 d long ago the desert having been p pushed bushed westward and south southward ward until all that is in left are certain mojave and arizona tracts which are desert only because the water runs the wrong way the interesting feature however of the admission ot utah is the political one utah comes into the union with a republican congressman and two republican senators there is no special need for an extra republican congressman since the complexion of the coming or fifty fourth congress Con greas is already settled the republican majority being so great as to be a source of apprehension to the warmest friends and adherents of the party but the senate is in a different matter the admission of utah will increase the senate to ninety members of which the republicans will have at the oom ing session se aslon forty five or just juat one half the democrats populists lists independents free coinage senators senator or by whatever name they may be known can in the aggregate only equal the full fall republican vote an and it to is fair to assume that on purely partisan questions such senators as stewart and jones ot of nova neva da and possibly peffer of kansas may be found in harmony with the republicans in the senate of 1897 and for six years theft thereafter after the republicans will garo be e in control since the recent elections in now new york and ohio and the possibility of a republican senator from kentucky fix the political status of the upper house in in 1807 beyond a doubt brice of ohio hill 9 of new york and gibson of maryland go out on march 4 1897 to be sue one ceedee by republicans republican and gorman german of maryland smith of new jersey and murphy of now new york will retire in march 1899 but this is in outside of utah the republicans public ans have carried shenew stale stae on the issue coffree coinage of silver or to say ay the least that was the dominant factor in the recent election the fact to is so ao significant and so BO well understood that it to is likely to have an important beating bearing on the presidential election of next year and possibly to induce the gold mono Install ints to revise their recent andun and unwarranted dictum that the silver question is in dwindling and diminishing in importance |
