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Show REPUBLICANS HAVE UTTLEOPPOSITION NEXT SENATE AND HOUSE WILL HAVE SUBSTANTIAL REPUBLICAN REPUB-LICAN MAJORITIES. President-elect Harding Will Receive 404 Electoral Votes and Governor Cox 127 Speculation as to New Members of Cabinet. Washington. The first reports of the election of November -. hailed by enthusiastic Republicans as one of the greatest landslides in the history of American polities, seems not bo have been exaggerated, as the returns have borne out the claims of the victors. President-elect Harding will have 404 electoral votes, while Governor Cox will receive hut Yll votes. The successful candidate for president will take office with the knowledge that both the senate and bouse will have substantial Republican working majorities. ma-jorities. In the senate the Republicans will i have W members anil the Democrats ."7, as a result of the landslide for Republicanism. The bouse membership will be 2'Xi Republicans, "l! Democrats, one Socialist, one Independent, one Iude-pomlont-l'rohibitionist and one Independent Inde-pendent Republican. While speculation is rife as to who will be selected as members of l'resi-dent-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 or selection of cabinet members upon his return. In fact. Senator Harding began his 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 UK), it is apparent ap-parent that there will not be enough 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, 43o, had the largest majority on record. Hi3. 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 he 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 left. That organized labor does not expect much from the new congress is indicalcd in comments upon the elect ion made public at the Plumb league. Ten women were elected to public office in Michigan. All were Republicans. Repub-licans. Cue will be a state senator, two sheriffs and the other minor office holders. Whether the national woman's party is to he discontinued or take up new work will be derided by a convention to meet in Washington on February 15 to lit. 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 he minority leader in the house. Republican leaders of congress are of the opinion that despite the adoption adop-tion of a referendum favoring cash bonuses to ex-service men by New-York. New-York. New Jersey and Wisconsin, tfte next congress on the ground of economy 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 (if 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 lias 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 rayne-Aldrich hill was $320,501.-0S3 $320,501.-0S3 in 1010, $:iO9.OC5.G02 in 1911. $304,-'JST.300 $304,-'JST.300 in 1012 and .?312.5( 10,040 in 1913. Cnder the Underwood bill the income in-come was .221.0o9.000 in 1017. $231.-325,107 $231.-325,107 in 1018 and $237,450,080 in 1010. |