The Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, oil inquisitors, suffered a partial eclipse because its younger brother, the special committee investigating the Attorney General, preempted sensational testimony. Nevertheless, it ground its weekly grist.
Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, its Chairman, resigned on account of his health, as he had threatened to do if the investigation was protracted. In his place Senator Ladd of North Dakota, insurgent Republican, was made Chairman, thus bringing the Demo-crats and the radical Republicans into the ascendency. The Ladd-Waish-Dill combination should prove an excellent disclosure team. Meanwhile the vacant...
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