Evening star., 1925-03-08
BORAH AND NORRIS .
BALK c. O.P. SLATE.
Fight Demotion of Insur-
gents, Thus Delaying Reor-
! ganization of Senate.

Efforts of the Republican majority
TO complete reorganization or the
Senate yesterday were frustrated by
two Senators from their ranks VINO
are opposed to the program TO
releeate the La Toilette Insurgents
to minor places on the standing COM
mittees.
Soon after the majority's slate or
committee assignments was presented
nv Senator Watson of Indiana, Sena-
tors Borah of Idaho and Norris OF
Nebraska objected to immediate ac-
ton, thus automatically forcing over
until tomorrow consideration OF the
matter.
While more or less extended debate
Ia in prospect, administration leaders
are confident that their program VIII
be approved by the Senate. since the
Democrats have decided in party con-
ference against making any night win
respect TO selections on the standing
committees.
No Fight Made.
The majority's program was ap-
proved before the Senate met by
party conference. which senators
Borah and Norris did not attend
There was some discussion OF the
proposition, Senators said, but no reai
fight against carrying 1t through
At the same time the Democratic
.teerinC committee made up the states
of Democratic committee assignments
and was ready to present II IN the
Senate after the Republican slate hau
been brought before the body
Senator Watson, in presenting the
majority slate as chairman or the
Republican committee on committees,
explained that the insurgents hau
been removed from their former COM
nittee ranks by reason OF the actoh
of the party conference last NoYem-
her in excluding them from party
councils and deciding that they
should no longer be assigned to MI
Republican vacancies on the com
mittees.
Borah Foresees Regret.
Asserting that the contemplated
action not only was unfair to the
Senators themselves, but also to their
constituents, Senator Borah said that
within the next two years his Re-
publican colleagues will regret this
action and will look back on it as
mistake"
You may denote these men, he
added, but they have the same in
fiuence in the Senate they always
had. II these men stood alone 1t
would be different. But | see men
sitting in this chamber today whose
seats will be imperiled if this pro-
gram goes through"
Replying Senator Watson said the
insurgents certainly did not repre-
sent the Republican party as il had
declared itself in it's last platform.
He added that they had championed
the cause of another candidate for
the presidency, organized another
political PARTY and held another
political convention.
If they had had their way" Sem
ator Watson said. Calvin Coolidge
would not be President of the United
States today"
Disputed by Brookhart.
When Senator Watson asserted
that these men had left the Repub-
lioan party in 1924, Senator Brook
hart of Iowa, one of those read out
Of the party along with Senators
I.add and Frazier of North Dakota,
challenged this statement, so far as
he personally was concerned. He de-
clared he had not left the Republican
party and was q better Republican"
than Senator Watson because he was
a champion of the principles enun-
oiated by Abraham Lincoln and Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Aside from the removal of Senator
Ladd from the chairmanship of the
public lands committee-the Teapot
Dome Investigating organization
and of Senator La Toilette from the
chairmanship of the manufactures
committee, the states presented by
the majority and minority show many
important changes in the personnel
of the standing committees.
Reed Gets Shields Place.
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri,
is given q place on the foreign rela-
tions committee to fill the vacancy
caused by the retirement from the
Senate of Senator Shields OF Ten
nessee. With this assignment the re-
naming four leaders of the irrecon-
cilables on the Versailles treaty have
places on that committee, which is
Yet to consider the World Court.
Senator Borah of Idaho is chairman
and Senators Johnson of California
end Moses of New Hampshire, all Re-
publicans, are next in rank.
Senators Butler of Massachusetts,
a. close personal friend of Presid ent
Coolidge, and Capper of Kansas were
added to the foreign relations COM
mittee in place of the late Senator
Mccormick of Illinois and Senator
Wadsworth of New York, who was
transferred to the powerful finance
committee.
Besides these Senators and Senator
Reed, another new member of the
foreign relations committee is Sem
ator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi,
who succeeds to the place made
vacant by the retirement Of Senator
Owen, Democrat, Oklahoma.
Senator Stanfield of Oregon sue
ceeds Senator Ladd as head of the
public lands committee, and Senator
Mckinley of Illinois replaces Senator
La Toilette as chairman of the manu-
features committee. Senator Watson
becomes chairman of the interstate
commerce committee in place OF
Senator Smith, Democrat, South Caro-
lima, who was elected two years ago
through a combination of Democrats
end Republican insurgents.
Senator Frazier was moved from
the Indian affairs committee to the
more important banking committee,
but all of the other insurgents re-
tanned places on the committees OF
which they heretofore have been