In former years considerable maladministration of the public lands by the Department of the Interior has been charged. During the Taft administration Secretary of the Interior Ballinger found it convenient to resign. From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease. Now the Senate feels that a committee had best be sent out to scout for possible festering grievances, which might later embarrass the Administration. During the past fortnight the investigation (by the Senate Committee on Public Lands) got under way.
At Salt Lake City. Last week Senator Stanfield, Chairman of the Senate...
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