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Show VOTES TO PROBE SQU1CES Accusations by Wilson Against Trade Commission Will Be Investigated. TV ASHING TON". 1) :. Z.- i-v.-v;;-gation of the federal rude comnhssion was ordered today by tlio senate v.'ithout a dissenting vote, on a resolution directing direct-ing a general inquiry by the interstate commerce committee into the commis- sion's activities and a!eo Into charges by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, that some of its employees have been engaged en-gaged in r?dica! propaganda. Hearings probably will not begin until January, as both senp.te and committee are busy with railroad legislation. a -jbcommIttee, headed by Senator Watson, will be appointed ap-pointed next week, however, to conduct the investigation. The resolution providr? for an Inquiry of wide scope. As originally proposed by Senator Watson, it covered only ?1-leced ?1-leced radical activities of commission employee-". As amended by the senate, however, how-ever, it authorizes i nnulry into a report as to its value ;a a federal agency. Chairman Chair-man Cummins of the Interstate commerce committee, proposed this amplification of tiie committee's power". Protracted hearings hear-ings arc expected to deal in detail with criticism Mid deferse of the commission and its activities, especially in reference to the com mission's investigation of the meat packers. Adoption of the resolution v.-as marked by brief but genera! criticism of radicalism radical-ism and propaganda. Senator Watson reiterated ids charges tha t commission employees are active in radical socialistic efforts. Senator Walsh, Democrat. Montana, declared de-clared that political view.y of federal employees em-ployees should not be called into question if the employee performed his official duties. Sena tors Myers, Montana, and King. Utah, both Democrats, asserted that : he Socialist group in the United States, known ay the "left v. ing of the Socialist part;-," was directly connected with the communist movement in Russia Rnd was fostering Bolshevism in this country. Deportations as a means of disposing of radtcuLs was attacked by Senator Borah, Republican. Idaho, v.-ho said it was the duty of the nation once It had admitted an alien, to deal with him itself. Senator Williams, Democrat. Mississippi, made a plea against too great repression of radical propaganda, declaring repressive repres-sive rnetneds fostered revolution. |