Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 1 | G. O. P. Senators Agree on Slate

ffiV?0SLSTE Harmony Between Old Guard and Progressives Being Established. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, May 24. With the senate reorganization slate ready to be reported Monday, a fair degree of harmony began to prevail at last today to-day among the Republican factions. There were some dissatisfied individuals, individ-uals, but the two main groups, the "Old Guard ' ' and the progressives, were nearer to amicable relations than they have been since the Republicans returned re-turned to power. Although the name of Senator Penrose Pen-rose of Pennsylvania is enrolled on the slate for the chairmanship of tho finance committee, the "Old Guard" has made so many concessious to the progressives in other assignments that much of their dissatisfaction has disappeared. dis-appeared. The suspicion got abroad today to-day that the Penrose row was in part camouflage to obtain concessions. Senator Borah of Idaho, leader of the Penrose opposition, has achieved his principal object, it was stated, in bringing bring-ing about the selection of a foreign relations re-lations committee flatly opposed to the league of nations. Tho new Republican members of the committee will bo Senators Sen-ators Johnson of California, Harding of Ohio. New of Indiana and Moses of I New Hampshire. Older Republican members of the committee are Senators Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman; Knox of Pennsylvania, Borah of Idaho, Brandegee of Connecticut and Fall of New Mexico. Under the slate to be proposed Monday, the league opponents dominate t he committee to such an extent ex-tent that they will be able to deal with the covenant just as they please. It is likely that they will promptly separate sepa-rate the league from the treaty and report the treaty to the senate almost. immediately without waiting to ton-j ton-j siilcr the league covenant. There were several unexpected developments devel-opments today in the slate framing. I Senator Borah went before the com- ' irontinned on Page 3, Column o.) G. 0. P. SENATORS ! AGREE 1 SLATE (Continued from Page One.) niiltco on committees and announced ho would relinquish his claim to the chairmanship of tho committee on education edu-cation and labor, provided Secretary Kenyon of Iowa, be selected in his stead. Tho committee on committees promptly agreed. Thereupon Senator Kenyon gave up the placo tentatively given him on the foreign relations committee com-mittee to make way for Senator Johnson John-son of California. Senator Borah said he wanted to give all his attention to fighting the league of natious. Senator Sena-tor Kenyon was pleased to get the labor la-bor committee chairmanship, which will be a most important post this congress when the labor program comes up. All factions were glad to see Senator Johnson John-son assigned to the foreign relations committee. This shift did much to produce pro-duce harmony. The progressives get bix desirable chairmanships, under the slate agreed upon, in this manner: Cummins, inter-slate inter-slate commerce; Gronua, agriculture; Jones of Washington, commerce; Kenyon, Ken-yon, education and labor; Johnson, woman 's suffrage, and La 1'olletto, manufactures. man-ufactures. No one of the progressive group could bo found who would admit that the i fight against Senator Penrose had been abandoned, but the impression about the senate was that Che contest Monday would not be very furious.