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The Week

March 10, 1910 issue

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The Aldrich bill for a commission composed of Congressmen to investigate Government business methods was passed in the U.S. Senate after the rejection of a substitute bill which provided for experts on the commission. Misconception regarding the function and usefulness of expert commissions led to the crippling of the Committee on Department Methods. The Keep Committee gathered a host of facts which the Aldrich bill would apparently undertake to gather anew. Its scope was confined to Government work in Washington, but it made eighteen reports covering the most important phases of department business.

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BILLS, Legislative; INVESTIGATIONS; BUSINESS; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; SPECIALISTS; UNITED States
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