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Show PROBING UVIIC COST !S wm k STIR Congress Calls lor Iimsii.i-lioii. Iimsii.i-lioii. but W ilson Savs "I'll' Do the Work." WASHINGTON". Jan. Tluce important impor-tant developments today marked the Inquiries In-quiries slti.rteri with a view io ascertaining ascertain-ing the responsibility for the increased cost of living. Senators Klkins of West Virginia and Crawford of South Dakota, introduced resolutions providing for a congressional investigation: the -war department announced an-nounced to congress that there was a deficiency of SI,o0S.;:ii" for the subsistence of the army In the preesnt year, mainly h.. cause of the enhanced cost of food and Sccreta i y Wilson declared he would cease investigation if congress interfered. inter-fered. Senator TCIklns's resolution rails for an "exhaustive liivesllgnllori" into the matter by a conimlltce of tlve s-enators. while- Senator Crawford calls upon the j-cerefcnry of commerce and labor for figures fig-ures showing the increases In wholesale and rotd.il prices In the last decade and causes foi such Increases. |