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Show Demoorafi? May Be Called Upon to- Sef fie DiiTerences .of ; Senate Republicans. . . INSURGENTS INSIST , ; UPON THEIR DEMANDS' Regulars, Being in the -.Majority, Give Little. Heed rto Progressive. Brethren.. ; By Associated Press. "WASHINGTON, -April 22. Democrat- of the senate maybe called upon to arbitrate the differences between the Republican regulars and progressives over he question of committee assigu: meuts; This unprecedented situation was predicted pre-dicted tonight t .following tho adjournment adjourn-ment of a meeting of ,thc Kcpubliean committee on committees, at.whieh the demands of tho. progressives for tho right to dictate one-fourth of the -Republican members on all committees was again denied. . . The progressives did nol ask for a formal recognition, but this, made no difference in tho vote of 7' to i, by which their original demands were defeated, de-feated, - It was, said the progressives will appeal ap-peal to the senate l'roni, tlio assignments assign-ments of the committee on committees and in Ibis-, way the 'Democrats, will be called in , to set tic -1 lie difficulty. Neither of -the Republican factious is disposed to- shirlc the responsibility of the situation. If tho dispute gets 'into the hands of Democratic senators, it is predicted the result may be far more conseqiieutal. The snarl' would bd such 1 that no on'e could l'orecnst the 'legislative 'legis-lative results of the session. Just what action the . Democrats would take as arbitrators is speculative. Several are. known to Svmpalhi'o with, the insurgents, vbile manyundoubtediy would vote to sustain party xegularity. Galliuger, to Prepare List. "At today's meotrjig a resolution adopted yesterday, which provided for the organization of the, committees in alphabetical order, was reconsidered and Senator Galliuger, as chairman of tho committee, 'was ipstructed tp bring iu a tentative st of assignments. But this action waff not taken without, opposition op-position from the progressives', who insisted in-sisted upon their right .to designate their repreontat i ves on committees. When they woro voted down tho progressives pro-gressives retired from the committee room. Thev do uot relish the prospect of having Mr. Galiinger"namo ihe pro gressive members .of, Ihe committees, and while thev. make no declaration to this circct, . it is plaijily thejij purpose lo opj)osc tlie chairman's action whenever when-ever it fails to meet their requirements of ono-fourth of ithe Republican .committee .com-mittee assignments, lit suHi ' a ' conflict con-flict in the committee as theit would ensue it is epecled 'the several regular regu-lar members would stand together, in supporting tho " Gallingcrr selections'. ' The dofeat of -'inendme.iits offered by tho progressives would follriw and in that event It .is oxdee't'iur the progressivesrefusing pro-gressivesrefusing to accept the sit.it.-otion, sit.it.-otion, wojtld take the- Case to tho senate. sen-ate. "' .. - , "An intermediate st.cn would bo con-sidoration con-sidoration of the quoetiou by the Republican Re-publican caucus, but as the regulars j Coiitliiued on Page Tivo, 0 ' Fill IX SEMITE GROMEKSE Democrats May Be Called Upon lo .Settle Difrerciices "of the Republicans. Continued Prom Page One, outnumber tho progressives 2 to 1 tho committee regulars would be sustained. The progressives contend that if the Democrats favor reform they would hi compelled to support their slate, but tho regular Republicans believe the conservatives con-servatives would stand by them. The principal contention in tho com- mittee on committees is over the assignments as-signments to the committees on appropriations, appro-priations, finance, postoffice. judiciary and foreign relations. The progressives contend the' wore promised two members mem-bers of the finance committee in advance ad-vance of the organization of the Gal-linger Gal-linger committee, and they aro especially espe-cially anxious to have this pledge carried car-ried out. Oil' the other hand, the regulars say to concede this request would be to give the nrogressives and the Democrats Demo-crats control of this important commit-itce commit-itce and this thev do not want to do on tho eve of tariff revision, The progressives are anxious to influence in-fluence the committee on appropriations as a means to controlling the commit' lee on expenditure?. They want larger representation on the po'stofiice committee com-mittee as a check on executive appointments, appoint-ments, and thev desire to aid in shaping the settlement of tho Mexican embroglio through the committee on foreign relations. re-lations. They also hope to insure another favorable report from the committee on the .judiciary on the resolution providing provid-ing for tho election of senators by direct di-rect vote and are desirous of influential representation on that committee. |