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Show ' LA FOLLETTE. Ou the morning after election Sen-ator Sen-ator La Follette was observed walking down Pennsylvania avenue between Senators Penrose and Smoot, and an observer quoted in a New York newspaper, news-paper, remarked that the investigation of the alleged disloyalty of "Battle Hob" would probably be dropped by the senate elections committee. Such has turned out to be tho case, for the committee, by a vote of 9 to 2, has voted to abandon the inquiry. Five Republicans and four Democrats favored dropping the whole matter, while Chairman Chair-man Pomerone and" Senator Walsh of Montana protested and will file a minority minor-ity report. There were many demands that La Folletto bo expelled from the senate on account of his St. Paul speech, but as senatorial patriotism is always diluted with practical politics, nothing was done in the matter while tho war was raging, and now that it is over the Wisconsin senator has been granted full amnesty and is much courted by politicians on both sides of the chamber. He will probably vote to give the Republicans Repub-licans control of the senate, but he will be able to overthrow such control any time he feels like it, for if he should vote with the Democrats the result would be a tie and Vice President Marshall Mar-shall would have the deciding vote. After all the threats that have been made and all the harsh things that have been said about him, it .must be highly amusing to Senator La Follette to be tickled under the chin and slapped on the back by his former enemies. |