Senators in tiny print

In the library for another purpose yesterday, I remembered to look up information on a question I posed a few days ago: Why did the U.S. Senate in 1913 twice reject the same governor's appointments to a vacant Senate seat, the only time they've done so since the 17th Amendment was passed a few months earlier?

I found the answer in a committee report printed on four large pages of eye-wateringly tiny type ( behind the cut )