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Show COST OF ESSENTIALS SAID TO DEPEND ON STRUGGLE ! i Standpat and Progressive Elements in Congress Clash on Policies By L. C. MARTIN United Press Staff Co respondent, i WASHINGTON, March 11 The ' : cost of bread, meat and coal and other necessities to every American , I consumer may be directly Influenced by the outcome of a struggle between j I the so called standpat and progressive j . wings of the Republican party 4n full j swine; today In the senate. I It is a clash of ideas and principles, j the issues of which are: ; 1. Whether corporations dealing in the necejislt.ee of life shall be classed ; as public service corporations and as : such be subjected to federal rein- latlon. 2. Whether the Ideas of govern- ment championed by the progressive , or those of the standpatters shall be: established as the policies of the new congress. i WILL CUT ALL. If the wing headed by LodpeSmoot ! f"STl1 Pehroat wins, there will be no ; , packer control bill, no regulation of ' j the coat business as provided in the! I t'alder bill, no curbing of gambling , as proponed by Senator Capper of ; j Kansaa, the progressives declared. j j Standpat leaders take as their text ' ' President Harding's campaign decla- J , ration for "lees government in busi- i I ness." ' The progressives, headed by Borah, Johnson and Ken yon. announce their ' Inten.lon of stirring up public sentl- ment avalnst "standpat Ideas" through i the pre. "SUITABLE" COMMITTEE. ! Various means of making the pro- 1 greasjves harmless are being invoked by party leaders. One is the selection ! of a sultable' agriculture committee, which handles such measures as the -packer bill and the other legislation i sponsore dby progressives. I Senator Page of Vermont is being' urged to give up the chairmanship of ' the naval affairs committee to Sena- j tor Poindexter of Washington, and take the agriculture chairmanship. J This Is because If he doee not, Sena-Tor Sena-Tor Norris of " Nebraska,-who favors the packer bill and other regulatory legislation, la entitled to the place. |