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Show FOUR INSURGENTS ARE OSTRACIZED REPUBLICAN LEADERS DECIDES COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS WILL BE WITHHELD La Follette, Ladd, Fraz;er and Brook, hart D yorived of Places In Future Party Conferences Con-ferences Washington, Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and three of his principal supporters in the s-enate practically were read out of the Republican Re-publican party at a conference of senate sen-ate Republicans. The conference adopted resolution by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania under un-der which Mr. La Follette, Senators Ladd and Frazier of North Dakota and Brookhart of Iowa will no longer be given committees x invited to attend at-tend future party conferences. Thirty-two of the fifty-one Republicans Repub-licans of the senate attended the conference. con-ference. Senator Ladd of North Dakota was the onTy one of the insurgent in-surgent group present. .Senators La Follette of Wisconsin, Brookhart of Iowa, Frazier of North Dakota and Norris of Nebraska weie absent. Two of the three new senators were present. They were William M. Butler But-ler of Massachusetts, appointed by Governor Cox to fill the seat made vacant by the death of Senator Lodge, and Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode Islandt elected to fill the unexpired term ot the late Senator Colt. The Reed resolution follows: "Resolution, that it be the sense of the conference that Senators La Follette, Fol-lette, Ladd, Brookhart and Frazier be not invited to future conferences and be not named to fill any Republican Repub-lican vacancies on senate committees." commit-tees." The resolution will not disturb present pre-sent committee assignments, Republican Repub-lican leaders said, but will serve as an expression of the view of the conference con-ference to be considered by the committee com-mittee on committees when the question ques-tion of filling vacancies comes up. Separate viva voce votes wert taken on each section of the resolution resolu-tion and the majority was overwhelming overwhelm-ing in each case, with only two or three voices raised in opposition. There were no speeches in opposition, opposi-tion, but Senator Herrald, Oklahoma, suggested the certain modifications which were disapproved. Senator Spencer of Missouri moved mov-ed the appointment of a committee to suggest ways and means- of accomplishing accom-plishing the same purpose sought in the resolution, but the conference adopted the Reed resolution as the preferable alternative. The question first was raised by Senator Edge of New Jersey, whe told his colleagues that Republican senators faced a responsibility in the matter to the country, to the party and to themselves which could not be shirked. |