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Show LAND SCANDAL TO BE AIRED. Another Investigation of the Depart ment of Agriculture to Be Instituted Insti-tuted by Houee Committee. Washington.--Another Investigation of the department of agriculture In volvlng orders of Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, and embracing charges of suppressed reports nnd In-influence In-influence of land speculators over government gov-ernment officials, is to be Instituted by the bouse committee mi expenditures expendi-tures In the agricultural department. Trouble relates to exploitation of Florida everglade lands, millions of acres of which have been sold throughout the country by syndicates, broke out before the committee on Tuesday as a result of the summary dismissal from government service by Secretary Wilson laHt Saturday of C. C. Elliott, chief engineer of the drain age division of the department, and Assistant Engineer A. D. Morehouse, and the suspension of F. E. Singleton, an accountant, on a technical charge of transference of public funds. |