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Show lngton; immigration, Colt, Rhode Island; Indian affairs, Curtis, Kansas; irrigation and reclamation, McNary, Oregon; Phil-i Phil-i ipplnes, Harding, Ohio; printing, Moses, I New -Hampshire; library, Brandegee, Con-, Con-, nectieut. ' Under the reported agreement, Senator Page instead of Senator Poindexter would head the naval committee by reason rea-son of strict adherence to the seniority rule. Last moment changes also placed Senator Smoot at the head of the public land committee instead of the appropriations appropria-tions body for which ho had. been mentioned. men-tioned. I Three new members of the foreign relations re-lations committee reported shosen were ! 1 Senators New, Indiana; HardUg., Ohio, , and Moses of New Hampshire. j REPUBLICANS OF SENATE CONCLUDE COMMITTEE SLATE WASHINGTON, May 23. Framing of senate Republican committee slates was reported completed today by the Republican Repub-lican conference committee on committees. commit-tees. The program, it was stated upon reliable authority, proposes Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania and Warren of Wyoming for chairmanship of the finance and appropriation committees respectively, re-spectively, despite the opposition of the progressives. The committee slate will be presented at a conference of Republican senators next Monday before convening of the senate. The progressives at that time are expected to take final action in opposition oppo-sition to Senators Penrose and Warren, but it was reported tonight that the factional fac-tional troubles would be settled in the conference and probably not reach the senate floor. The cha irmanshlp assignments understood under-stood to have been agreed upon by the committee on committees follow: Foreign relations, Lodge, Massachusetts; Massachu-setts; finance, Penrose, Pennsylvania: appropriations. ap-propriations. Warren, Wyoming; military affairs, Wadsworth, New York; naval affairs, af-fairs, Page, Vermont ; judiciary. Nelson, Minnesota; interstate commerce, Cummins, Cum-mins, Iowa ; agriculture, Gronna, North Dakota; commerce, Jones, Washington ; rules, Knox. Pennsylvania; public lands, Smoot. Utah; privileges and elections, Dillingham, Vermont; manufactures. La Follette, Wisconsin; education and labor, Kenyon, Iowa; mines, Poindexter, Wash- |