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Show LA FOLLETTE WILL TRY TO REFORM SENATE Washington. Feb. 13. Following the I lead 6f the hou3e insurgents, some of the new Republican senators, headed by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, probably will make an earnest effort to obtain a re-organization of the pres- ent methods of appointing committees j In the next congress. When Senator La Follette succeeded 1 Thursday in putting the naval appro- ! plratlon bill over until next week he 1 said that, he "had the hardihood not' only to doubt the perfection of the present arrangement, but almost to believe that if the business of considering consid-ering the legislation of the senate could be distributed among the ninety-1 ninety-1 two, instead of being taken In charge by less than one-third of the body. It would be an Improvement over existing exist-ing conditions." His present committee assignments, ! he said, do not allow him much say in I the Important business before com-i com-i mittees. j |