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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Elections for the Fifteenth Congress are complete across the U.S. except parts of Massachusetts, with extensive turnover: two-thirds new members, many incumbents declined reelection, and losses linked partly to the Compensation Law.
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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
The Elections to the Fifteenth Congress are now completed in every State in the Union, except in one or two districts of Massachusetts, where there have been several unsuccessful attempts to make a choice. The changes are more numerous than at any preceding election; for it is believed that two thirds of the Members of the present House of Representatives have never sat in Congress before. Of the old members not returned, it is believed nearly one half declined a re-election. The defeat of the remainder is in a degree attributable to the Compensation Law, but not as generally, as some have supposed. Several of the warmest opponents of that law have lost their seats by large majorities.
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United States
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Now Completed
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two thirds of members new to congress; nearly half of old members not returned declined re-election; remainder's defeats partly due to compensation law; several opponents of the law lost seats by large majorities
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Elections to the Fifteenth Congress completed in every state except one or two districts in Massachusetts with unsuccessful attempts; more changes than any preceding election