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Show REPUBLICANS HAVE UnLEOPPOSITIOH NEXT SENATE AND HOUSE WILL HAVE SUBSTANTIAL REPUBLICAN REPUB-LICAN MAJORITIES. President-elect Harding Will Receive 40 Electoral Votes and Governor Cox 127 Speculation as to New Members of Cabinet. Washington. The first reports of the election of November 2, hailed by enthusiastic Republicans as one of the greatest landslides in the history of American politics, seems not be have been exaggerated, as the returns have borne out the claims of the victors. rresident-elect Harding will have -104 electoral votes, while Governor Cox will receive but 127 votes. The successful candidate for president will take office with the knowledge that both the senate and house will have substantial Republican working majorities. ma-jorities. In the senate the Republicans will have 59 members and the Democrats 37, as & result of the landslide for Republicanism. The house membership will be 295 Republicans, 130 Democrats, one Socialist, one Independent, one Independent-Prohibitionist and one Independent Inde-pendent Republican. While speculation is rife as to who will be selected as members of President-elect Harding's cabinet, Senator Harding has announced that he will immediately take a much needed vacation, vaca-tion, and will take up the matter of selection of cabinet members upon his return. In fact, Senator Harding began bis vacation tour on Saturday, when crowds rivaling those of campaign days greeted him as he began his journey southwestward for an outing on the Texas coast. At more than a dozen cities along the way in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, his private car was besieged by cheering cheer-ing men, women and children, clamoring clam-oring for a speech or a chance to shake hands. With the Republican majority in the next house estimated at 100, it is apparent ap-parent that there will not be enough left. That organized labor does not expect much from the new congress is indicated in comments upon the election made public at the Plumb league. Ten women were elected to public office in Michigan. All were Republicans. Repub-licans. One will be a state senator, two sheriffs' and the other minor office holders. Whether the national woman's party is to be discontinued or take up new work w-ill be decided by a convention to meet in Washington on February 15 to 19. Harry Runyon, lone Democrat elected elect-ed to the New Jersey assembly, will have to serve on forty-nine committees. commit-tees. He will hold the party caucus and will be minority leader in the house. Republican leaders of congress are of the opinion that despite the adop-tin adop-tin of a referendum favoring cash bonuses to ex-service men by New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin, trie next congress on the ground of econo- my will refuse to grant them through federal legislation. The issue will be brought immediately before the next session by Representative Johnson of South Dakota and Swope of Kentucky. With the federal government likely to spend four billion dollars or more annually for years to come, the duty of working out an effective budget system will be one of the first tasks of the Harding administration. The bill establishing a budget system may be passed in advance of the Inauguration Inaugura-tion of Mr. Harding as president March 4, next.- The tariff bill that, will be passed by the incoming Republican congress promises to be the most drastic protective pro-tective measure that has ever appeared ap-peared upon the federal statute books, according to Republican senators and representatives now in Washington. It will be ready for signature by President Presi-dent Harding early next summer, It was predicted. The income from the tariff under the Tayne-Aldrich bill was $326,561,-683 $326,561,-683 in 1910, $309,965,692 in 1911, $304,-9S7.366 $304,-9S7.366 In 1912 and $312,509,946 in 1913. seats to accommodate the Republican members on one side of the chamber, and there will be an overflow of Republicans Re-publicans to the opposite side. The same thing is true in the senate, and Republican senators will have to take seats among the Democrats in that body. In the Sixty-third congress the situation situa-tion was the same as that which will exist in the 'Sixty-seventh congress. Then the Democrats, with the total membership the same as now, 435, had the largest majority on record, 163. The Democrats swarmed to the Republican side and formed a group which flanked the Republicans on either side. The overflow became known as the "Cherokee strip." It is proposed that the Democrats in the next session will occupy that part of the house they now hold, but shall be moved nearer the center so as to give the excess Republicans room at tneir left. In other words, one side will be given over entirely to the Republicans, Repub-licans, with the Democrats in the center cen-ter and the Republicans to the extreme Under the Underwood bill the income in-come was $221,659,066 in 1917, $231,-325,107 $231,-325,107 in 1918 and $237,456,6S0 in 1919. |