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Show wide margin cf 10 in the House. Harding's election followed in 1920, but in 1922, ths mid-year campaign following his election, the 68th Con gress was elected and although the Republicans retained control, they lost eight in the Senate and severity-five severity-five in the House. Party Congressional Division From 34th to 70th Session President" Coolidcve in commenting upon the election referred to the hold upon the Lower House that had been maintained by the Republican, party. He based his remp.iks on the rule an.! precedents maikia.? . congressional elections midway between presidential presiden-tial contests. Election figures up to November 7 on the House of Representative;; show: . Republicans" 238, Democrats 194, Farmer-Labor 2,' Socialist 1. The Republicans, lost 10 seats. ; It has. been' .'the' rule that the administration ad-ministration in power either lost the Lower Hou.se-of Congress in its mid-year mid-year elections or had its majority j uhere very materially curtailed. The j exceptions to this -rule are so few1 as to be notable. Attached herewith! is a table giving the political eomT j plexions of the. 34th Congress and every ev-ery congress-since then. The 41st! Congress was elected in 18G8 with ' the first election of Grant. This tabic shows that the 44th Congress, elected in. 1874, the middle of Grant's second term, was Democratic Demo-cratic in the House, the first Democratic Demo-cratic .House that had been elected since . the-Civil Waiv and the Democrats Demo-crats gained ten in the Senate. The 40 th Congress, elected in 1878, the middle of "the Hayes administra-j lion, was Democratic in' "both Senate j and House. This was the first Dam- J ocratic Senate following the Civil j I War. I The 48th "Congress elected In 1SS2, ! in the middle of the Garfield-Arthur administration, was Democratic in ! i the House,, the Democrats gaining 70' over the previous Congress. Cleveland was elected in 18S4 and j carried with him a large Democratic j majority in the House, but in 1S86, in the middle of his administration, his party lost 12 in the House, 50th j Congress. i In 1890, the middle of the first ad-I ad-I ministrations of Harrison, the 52nd I Congress in the Leaver House went ; overwhelmingly Democratic. I Cleveland was elected in 1892 fol-: fol-: lowing his turn, but in 1984, the j middle of his second administration, 'the . 54th Congress marked a Repub-1 Repub-1 iican landslide which reversed the po-! po-! litical complexion of the House and the Senate. 1 McKinlcy was elected in 1896 and the following campaign in 1898, the ! Republicans lost 21 in the House. From then until 1906, the mid-year election following Roosevelt's election elec-tion in his own name, the Republicans Republi-cans held their advantage, but in 1906 with the 60th Congress, the Republicans Republi-cans lost 28 in the House. The next mid-year election was in 1910, 62nd Congress during the ad-min'straticn ad-min'straticn of Taft, when the Dem-ccrats Dem-ccrats carried the Lower House and made a gain of ten in the Senate. A division of the Republican party fcilowed in 1912 and Wilson was elected. Then came the war, which obliterated party lines. In 1918, the mid-year election in the second term of Wilson, the 66th Congress was elected and it was a complete reversal, revers-al, the Republicans carrying the Senate, Sen-ate, gaining six, and making tremendous tre-mendous gains which gave them a |