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Show NEWSENATE I TO BE UNITED Progressive Democrats i Will Control Leaders Successful I I Washington. Ian 14. President- elect Wilson's declaration at Tren- f ion yesterday that h.- would jMrk only If progressives" lor the work or the tew- admiistratlon brought Democratic leaders of the senate today statements that the new President would have the support of a united Democratic I majority in the senate when he began be-gan his presidential term. Efforts to unite the Democrats, with the control virtually given to the progressives," have been so far so successful that leaders predict that I her, w in )(J uo opeil break in lhft organisation of the new senate. 1 The ' reorganization" element will, it is understood, yield the chairman- ships c.r committees to the older sen- I ators entitled to them by rank: but will insist upop a full voice In the control of each committee and in i the selection of its members. . Senators Martin and Hoke Smith, I recognised as the leaders of the Dem- , ocratli forces In the senate, both re- fused to see in the remarks of the f President-elect any especial cornier. f tion with i he situation in the senate I and predict a settlement of all the f differences in that body |