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Show I As we construe the dispatches from Washington, the purpose is to permit the Smoot investigation to drag its slow way along until Congress ad- I journs, to then send a sub-committee to Utah to take testimony, and have no final report until I Congress shall meet in December next. We may 8 bo mistaken, but it does not require much imagi- m nation to make it clear that senators have talked over the Smoot business and have decided that no B report must be made until after the Presidential K election is disposed of, for Senators are often great K moral cowards and as every one of them rather ex-K ex-K pects to be a candidate for President after a while, m It may be ungenerous to expect them to take up a matter the result of which may make less B secure the votes of an earnest constituency. |