6 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 2

* In the elections- to the Senate the Democrats made

_ a net gam' of seven seats. The new Senate will be corn posed of 49 Republicans, 46 Democrats and one Farmer Labourite. In the House of Representatives the Repub. licans still have a safe majority, though they have several seats, the exact number of which is not kno when we write. Great interest was taken in the return of Mr. " Al" Smith (New York) who, in spite of the tent' attacks of the Hearst Press, has now improved his chances of being nominated Democratic candidate fog the Presidency.