The New Orleans Daily Democrat

This House as Made Up will Show Seventeen Democratic Majority.

[N. Y. Tribune.]

Washington, March 14. The Clerk of the House of Representatives is now compiling the roll for the organization of the next House. It is ascertained that in a number of districts contests of such a nature have been instituted that neither the Republican nor Democratic candidate has yet received his certificate of election from the Governor. In all such cases the name of neither is placed upon the roll; and as the Republicans claim to have carried nearly all of these districts, and the questions involved are principally technical ones, of course the result is to give to the Democrats a larger majority than they otherwise would have. It is now reported that the roll as made up by Clerk Adams will show the Democratic majority to be about 17. Leading Republican members of the next House now in Washington have held an informal consultation upon the subject, the object being to devise some means to prevent any arbitrary or unusual proceeding. They are unanimously of the opinion that to refuse to place upon the list the name of any Republican whose certificate of election is forwarded to the Clerk would be arbitrary and illegal, and measures will be taken to make a protest against it of such a nature as to be effective.