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Show LEADERS FEAR CO. P. MITT IS TOO LARGE Too Big to Handle, Some Republicans Re-publicans Say About Situation Washington, Feb. 26. The thought uppermost In the minds of house Republican leaders in planning' today for the reorganization meeting Honda) night, was that their major-1 , Ity might be too big tp handle. The Republican majority In the- I I new house will be 169, or more than I three to one. and some leaders ex-1 pressed anxiety that the new men might want to take a hand in selecting select-ing officers to serve for the next j t., years The opinion generally was expressed,! however, that Speaker Glllett and Representative Mondell of Wyoming, Republican leader, would bo re-elect-1 1 ed. Their friends say they will be unopposed. ( I I OM 51 I N Representative Knutson of linne-sota, linne-sota, Republican whip, expects op-1 position. The committee on commit-1 tees which makes assignments to, standing committees, will he named at the conference and the chances arc ' that most of the present members Will hold over- Election of a steering j committee may be deferred. Leaders predicted there would be I no important hanges In the beads of i the big Committees, and that the I seniority rule would still hold. Chair-in. Chair-in. in Ksch of the Interstate commerce j committee will retire and hlB place probably will be tuken by Representative Represen-tative Wlnslow of Massachusetts. ' ranking Republican member FIGHT I'll i 1 18 1 1 1 i A threatened fight agulnut Chalr- i man Volstead of the judiciary om- I mlttee, was said to have about I petered out. Jn anticipation of a call by Mr. Harding for a special session to be- I gin about Airil 1 most of the house leaders Will remain here. Representative Kltchin of North Carolina, who Is slated for Democratic Demo-cratic leader to succeed Champ Clark, hopes to be back in harness for the new session. Because of the small number of Democrats In th house It Is reported Democratic representation on committees commit-tees will be sharply reduced. |