Committees of Sabotage.

The U.S. Congress in the closing days of the session has been a shambles of mangled bills, forgotten mandates and butchered election promises. But behind-the-scene observers of the party battle point out that the revolt of the South is not the whole story. It is one item. A second item is the influence of the "rotten-borough" Senators. And a third item is the committee system in Congress. A "rotten borough" in twentieth-century U.S., as in nineteenth-century England, is a constituency, which keeps the same representation although the tide of population growth has passed it by or never reached it.