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Show SENATE COMMITTEE REORGANIZATION The Inroads Made by Death, Itesijrnation and Failure of Klcetton. Wasiiinotov, Dec. 9. Republican senate caucus has appointed a committee to rc-ortfani.e rc-ortfani.e the committees. The task is of greater magnitude than usual in such eases. Serious inroads have been made by death, resie-uation and failure of election in the ranks of the senate as it stood at the close of the lifty-tirst conirress-. In the forty-two standine' and thirteen select committees, there ure not less than seventy two vacancies, vacan-cies, includiiii; six chairmanships, in the list of statnliiii: eoniniillccs and one iu its list of elect ci'iniuitteei. The committee on linance retains every one of its thirteen members, while Senator ' Sherman's cioiiinit'o-e on foreien relations I 'lias lost live of its nine senator-. Tin: com-i com-i luillecs on judiciary education and labor and ' Di.slricl of Columbia, nave each o-t 1 tbrce members, iiicliiuin,' the cha.rmeii. ; Other committees have been depleted in like ! iiiumicr. |