Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-03-08 | Page 1 | Senate Will Regret Act, Borah Says

i SENATE Will REGRET REW ACT BORAH BORAN SAYS SAY Ousting Insurgents May I Endanger Others Solon I Warns W WASHINGTON March 7 Ef CC Efforts ef efforts forts Carts of o tIe tro Republican majority to complete reorganization o of the sen- sen senate sen senate ate today were frustrated by two senators from Crom their ran ranks ks who are opposed to the program to 10 relegate the tho La insurgents to minor places on the standing com com- com com- committees Soon after acter the majority's slate of oC committee assignments sas as presented by Watson In- In Indiana indiana In Indiana diana s S sato 3 Borah Idaho and No rl Nebraska objected to im- im immediate immediate Im Immediate mediate action thus forcing over until consid consid- consideration oration of the matter maller j While more 0 01 em iea less extended de- de de debate bate I Is In prospect administration lo ers are aro confident their pro pro- pro be b be approved cd y T the sen- sen senate senate sen senate ate since Rince the have de- de decided de decided In tn part party conference against making any tight fight with respect re to selections on the commit commit- committees committees committees tees The Tho 8 s program was ap- ap approved ap approved proved before beCore the senate met by b a party parly conference heh which Senators and Norris Morris did didlot lot attend There was sas some o of the tho proposition said but no real fight tight against carr carrying It through IlL HY IY st U the same time the Democratic steerIng committee made mado up the slates of Democratic committee as- as assignments assignments as assignments and was ready to present It Republican in the senate enate- after alter the lican slate had been before the tho bod both Watson atson In presenting th Ih slate elate as chairman of ot the Iho committee on commit commit- committees committees committees tees explained that the insurgents had been removed from their for for- former former for former mer committee ranks by reason of the action of the pirty Conference last November In excluding them from Crom pirty p councils council and deciding that the should no longer be a- a a as assigned signed to 10 fill Republican on the committees f Asserting that the tho contemplated action achon not only no nas unfair to the senators es but also alo to their constituents Senator forth amid thit within thin the next two tso t 0 sears eurs his Republican colleagues wl 1 re- re reg re-glet re g giet et this thia a action and will look back backon backon backon on it as a 0 mistake MAY lAY You Vou may demote these thee men he added but hut they th y have tIe l same influence shad In the senate they iwa s had It If these men stood alone alono It be different But I see men sitting in iii this cham chamber her today today- hose seals scats will sili be Imperiled If it this pro pro- pro pro-giam g giani am goes through Senator Watson atson sid s the Insurgents certainly certainty did not represent the patty pal ty a as asit asit It had declared itself in Its last He fe added that they had Iad championed the cause of another for the presidency or- or or another politic il ti party and II held another pout ical cons contention cation If It they had bad ad had I their heIr scay ay I Watson atson said uld Calsin h C In Cool Cool- idge Coolidge Cool would not be president of o the StaTs Stas today I Wr O TIT fI When Senator t Watson t asserted that the these thesa men had left the Re- Re RepUblican Re Republican publican part parti In 1924 benator Brookhart of Iowa 10 a one of those thoe read out of or the party along sith Ith Srn Sen Ion Ladd and frailer o of North Dakota challenged Ihl this statement so far as he ho personally was concerned 1 He declared It h had hadnot hadnot hadnot not left tho the n party nn and was a 0 better belter Republican than Senator benator Watson Wafon because he a champion of oC the principles principle enunciated enunciated elated by Abraham Lincoln nn ani J 1 heodore Roosevelt Co 00