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Show Surveyor-General Dement iflust Uo. Washington, March 2. The Senate Committee Com-mittee on Public Lands has voted to report adversely the nomination of Surveyor-General Dement of Utah. Dement, it will be remembered, came on here and got himself interviewed by newspaper men in regard to extensive land frauds in the Western territory, terri-tory, with which several persons prominent in official life were alleged to be implicated. He then denied that he had furnished the information, and when the correspondents were brought up before the Senate Commit tee they promptly showed that to put it mildly Mr. Dement's memory was badly defective. de-fective. No one has any sympathy for Dement, not even the Democrats, and although al-though he is said to be a relative of Land Commissioner Sparks his nomination will be promptly rejected. Democratic Senators wanted the President to withdraw Dement's nomination. Cleveland Cleve-land said: "Let the young man lie in the bed ho has made." The Democrats in the Senate will not defend him. Logan also goes back on the recommendation. |