Show FE insurgents republican PUBLICAN LEADERS DECIDE COMMITTEE appointments WILL BE WITHHELD la l a pollette follette ladd frazier and brook hart deprived of places in future party conferences conference feren ces washington senator robert la follette of wisconsin and three t irce of his principal supporters in the swale senate practically were read out of the republican party at a conference of sen ste te republicans the conference adopted resolution by y senator resl peed of pennsylvania under whish which mr ali la follette Fo liette senators ladd and frazier of north dakota ind brookhart of iowa will no longer be given committees or invited to attend future party conferences thirty two of the fifty one republicans of the senate attended the conference senator ladd of north dakota was the ony only one of the insurgent group present senators la follette of wisconsin brookhart of iowa frazier of north dakota and norris of nebraska absent two of the three new senators were pr preset breser eser they were william M butler of massachusetts appointed by governor cox to fill the seat made vacant by the death of senator lodge and jesse 11 II metcalf of rhode island elected to fill the tha term or the late senator colt the reed resolution follows resolution that it 11 be the sense of the conference that senators la follette ladd brookhart and frazier be not invited to future conferences and be not named to fill adv any republican vacancies on senate committees 91 the resolution will not disturb present committee assignments republican leaders said but will serve as in ix expression of the view of the conference to be considered by the committee on committees when the question of filling vacancies comes up separate viva voce votes were taken on each section of the resolution and the majority was overwhelming in each case with only two or three voices raised in opposition there were no speeches in opposition but senator herrald oklahoma suggested the certain modifications which were disapproved senator spencer of missouri moved the appointment of a committee to suggest ways and means of accomplishing shing the same purpose sought in the resolution but the conference adopted the reed resolution as the th preferable alternative the question first was raised by senator edge of new nev jersey who 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 sh irked |