Show Executive Sessions and the Press WASHINGTON Feb 27In the House today to-day BuckaleAV introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to cause a recon naisance to be made for a line of railroad extending south through the Central American Amer-ican states of Colombia Ecuador Peru and i Bolivia to the city of Sucre and detail olli I cars in the public service to prosecute the work f The Dolh investigating committee today continued its inquiry into the methods by which tbcprocecuiiigs ol executive sessions became public Several newspaper men testified that they had written re oris of the proceeding of certain executive sessions ses-sions but when asked t give the source oft of-t H ir information declined to do so upon the ground that i would boa bo-a gross betrayal of confidence One of them stated that iu all his experience experi-ence he had never known of an instance where the procl dins in executive session ses-sion had been divulged by an employee of he Senate or where a neAvst > ix r man isUed the price for such into mation Under the new lule Avhicu went into affect today when the Senate went into executive session the pi ess lobby in which T are located the capital offices of the Associated Asso-ciated Press and the United Suites a well as all the committee rooms on the gallery floor were cleared and strict watch kept over them aiitil the Senate doors were opened again This disarranged all press business on the Senate side for some tim Tae door keener was also required to wove their chairs and their persons urther jv y front the holy of hole u at the Senate Aspects to accomplish by this change is not clear Reporters generally are not dull of hearing but it was never ctiarged that they could hear through four feet of solid Avail or two heavy doors |