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Show (FITZGERALD RESENTS SENATE'S lllfill Xeiv uvk iipprpsi'iiiiilive Is Jealous ol' Constihifioiwil Prerogatives Pre-rogatives r House. WASt llXU TON". .Ian. Ji.- Reproscnta-tle Reproscnta-tle ritzgeiald of Nv.- York, the oalv riftmoeralle member of (lie house u ho joa, Krlilay vot.-U against the Denuicial j 'mid "Insurgents" In. (he light that took from Speaker (.'nation the power to jij-; jij-; poiui Uo housie members of the J-'dol cninmlttev to investigate the Phu-hoi K.illinger eontioveray, wild today that nbould the sonnte return, the Joint reso lutlon amended ao as Jo" provide for Ihe appointment by the speaker of the hou.-e members of tho committee, he will offer a resolution to return It. "on the ground j that Ihe action of the senate Is tin Invasion In-vasion of the constlluilonal prerogatives of tho house" "Personally." he added. "1 favor the appointment of all. committee by the speaker. Iu this iiiainnce, however, the house. In Ihe exercise of Its unquestioned rights, has decided that Its members of the Joint committee of Investigation shall bo elected. For the ni'nato to attempt to dlctatn the manner In which the house stall seic.-t' Its committees would be not only an Invasion or the prerogative "f t i - house, but an inexcusable imnerii-nenee imnerii-nenee to be resettled Jn a dignified and orderly vvav." |