Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1912 — HOUSE WILL HAVE NAME IN HISTORY, [ARTICLE]

HOUSE WILL HAVE NAME IN HISTORY,

Will Be Known as the “Investigating Congress;” Democrats Have Spent $70,000 in “Probes.” • This house will go down in history as the “investigating congress.” Such at least is the opinion of Minority Leader Mann. “The democrats have spent $70,000 in investigations,” the militant republican leader declared. Today the house is In the throes of several investigations, with several more concluded and still more threatened. Never have so many house “probes” occurred during a single session In Washington. Just now the “money truSt” is being inquired into by three house committees, the banking and currency, the interstate commerce and judiciary. The “shipping trust” is being probed by the merchant marine committee. The “steel trust” investigation by the Stanley committee is practically concluded. Also the Florida everglades investigation has been finished. Other investigations ahead are the smelter trust and baseball trust inquiries. The woolen trust has temporarily, at least, escaped threatened investigation as a result of disclosures before the rules committee during its investigation of the textile workers’, strike at Lawrence, Mass. Campaign material galore Is being ground out and polished off hy the official congressional investigators, who are aided by “experts” of many kinds, statisticians, attorneys and rooms full of clerks,