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The Forty-second Congress

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Washington news dispatch says that Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House of Itepreseutatives, Las just comploted a liet of members of the Houso, having for this purpose taken tLe certificates oí the Governors of the several States. The certifícate of the inember frotn thc Third District of Arkansus bas not yet been received. Tlie following is tho poütical classification : Kcpuljlicana .....130 Demócrata, (includiug tbu Third District of Ark.in ■...) ....... go Independent, n-mely Jas. G. Blair, of Missouri. . 1 Ono vactincy in Iilinois, cauöcd by the elcction of Loïiu to thc Senatc i Oiio vacaucy in Michigan, cansed by the eloction of Ferry to thcSenatc i Total 229 Soveral States havo not yet elected, viz : New Humpshire, 3 ; Conneotiout, ■l ; Texiie, 4 ; California, 3 ; making tlio total nuniber cf meinbers 243. There aro froiu twelve to üfteen contc-Bted seats. Of the niaety-sis Domociats abovo raoiUioaed, two- Dubois, of Georgia, aud Eogers, of North Carolino, and probably Waddull, of North Carolina - are barred by tho fourteonth amendmtmt. They will not be ablo to qualiiy uutil thoir diaabiiitics ftro romoved by ast of (Jongrea8.

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Old News
Michigan Argus