The U. S. Senate chamber was last week embellished with five huge maps hung upon its walls below the galleries by direction of Senator Copeland, who used them to deliver a graphic oration on why the St. Lawrence waterway treaty should not be ratified. But most of last week the maps served as a backdrop while the Senate went through the motions of considering the President's bill to seize the Federal Reserve Banks' gold and create a $2,000,000,000 fund for Treasury exchange operations as preliminaries to devaluation of the domestic dollar.
There was never a doubt about the bill's passage....
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