The complete returns in the American Congressional elections show that

the new Congress will be constituted as follows :— Republicans .. • •

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• • 58

Democrats .. • •

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• • 42

Farmer Labour • •

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• • 1 Republican majority .. • • • •

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ROUSH or REPRESENTATIVE!.

Republicans .. • • • . • . .. 225 Democrats .. ..

. • 207 Socialist • .

• • • • 1 Farmer Labour .. • •

ID, 1

Independent .. • • • • . • 1 Republican majority ..

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The Times correspondent remarks that the rebuff to the Republican Party is almost entirely due to domestic conditions. Deflation as decreed by the Federal Reserve Board and high freight rates have hit the farmers west of the Mississippi. The eastern seaboard has been specially hard hit by the new Tariff. And everywhere the steady increase of taxation is a grievance. Pro- hibition is also a grievance in some States. The appear- ance of " Radical " elements in the new Congress, the correspondent thinks, is likely to affect the attitude of the President and the State Department towards foreign policy. The plan of holding aloof from the rest of the world is judged to have been a failure. If this is the meaning of the elections it is very important, and of course not one that we regret.