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Senate Bribery Investigating Committee
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Seated L to R: Senator Herman J. Severson, Senator Walter S. Goodland, chairman of the committee, and Oliver Knutson, clerk of the committee. Standing is Emil Hartman, Senate sergeant-at-arms and not a member of the committee. This special committee investigated the charges of Senator Peter J. Smith that an effort had been made to influence his vote on utility legislation.
February 12, 1931
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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