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The Cheyenne Daily Leader
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming
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Report on the expiration of 26 US Senate terms on March 4 next year, listing 16 Republicans, 9 Democrats, and 1 Independent whose seats are up for election by state legislatures this autumn. Notes Colorado's two new seats and Louisiana's vacancy. Projects potential Democratic control of the 76-member Senate if they hold and gain seats.
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The terms of twenty-six Senators will expire on the 4th of next March, and their successors will be chosen by Legislatures elected this autumn. Of these Senators, sixteen are Republicans, namely: Clayton of Arkansas, Logan of Illinois, Wright of Iowa, Harvey of Kansas, West of Louisiana, Blaine (Morrill's successor) of Maine, Boutwell of Massachusetts, Ferry of Michigan, Alcorn of Mississippi, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Cragin of New Hampshire, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Anthony of Rhode Island, Robertson of South Carolina, and Howe of Wisconsin.
Nine are Democrats, namely: Goldthwaite of Alabama, Saulsbury of Delaware, Norwood of Georgia, Stevenson of Kentucky, Ransom of North Carolina, Kelly of Oregon, Cooper of Tennessee, Johnson of Virginia, and Davis of West Virginia; and one Independent: Hamilton of Texas. In addition to these, the new State of Colorado, whose politics is in doubt, will elect two Senators; and Louisiana will elect a Senator to fill the vacancy for which Pinchback long contended.
Thus there will be twenty-nine seats to fill by new men next March. The present Senate is divided between forty-two Republicans, twenty-nine Democrats, and two Independents, giving the Republicans a majority of eleven.
The next Senate will consist of seventy-six Senators. If the Democrats hold their present seats and elect nine others of the twenty-nine Senators to be chosen then, with a Democratic Vice-President in the chair, they will control the Upper House of Congress.
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4th Of Next March
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twenty-nine senate seats to be filled next march; current senate: 42 republicans, 29 democrats, 2 independents (republican majority of 11); next senate: 76 members; democrats could gain control with democratic vice-president.
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Terms of 26 Senators expire on March 4 next year; successors chosen by autumn-elected legislatures. Lists 16 Republicans, 9 Democrats, 1 Independent. Colorado elects 2 new Senators; Louisiana fills vacancy. Total 29 new seats.