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Show LEADER MAI MAKES I DEMOCRATS SQUIRM I Denounces the House Com- I mittee on Expenditures in H Interior Department. ; B WASHINGTON". April .12. A scath- H ing denunciation of the house commit tee on expenditures in the interior de H partmcnt was delivered today by M. ! Mann of Illinois, the minority lender. IH lie charged that Mr. Graham of Illinois, H chairman of tho committee, had permit- IH ted a woman lobbyist, known by him to H bo in the employ of persons pressing IH claims before the committee, to shape H legislation. H Mrs. Helen Pierce Grnv pf Minro H sola was the woman named by Mr. H Mann. He charged that for three months she had occupied a desk in the ollice of the commissioner of Indian affairs on the strength of her relation with the house committee. H In thai time, said Mr. Maun, .Mr-. IH Gray had solicited and had rucchel IH fees amounting to several hundred dol lars from Indian claimants. Mr. Maun H said a disstaislicd Indian had filed a H protest with Chairman Graham and that he had told the woman to "kc p the money." Once in Jail. H Mrs. Gray iu 1!)0S brought charges , against Indian Agent JCoynolda, a I lug- H ing that while she was on the Crow H reservation, writing syndicate, articles, ; IH she had been thrown into jail ami ' IH threatened with, incarceration in a cell I IH with a male Indian. j IH The storm broke in tho houso today I IH when Honrcscntativo Graham's com- j IH mittee asked for tho adoption of a re- i H ohition providing for an Indian invest j H gation in Ncw Mexico. In opposing Mr. IH "The Democratic investigations have j H costthe government more than 4100,- j lie shook his clenched lists at the j H Democratic side as he ridded: I IH "They have not disclosed any scan- H dal so great as that of a committee of IH the house retaining within its scope a j, IH norsou who solicits ,and receives money IH to use his or her intlucncc in forcing legislation through for the benefit ol , H Demand Is Made. j H Mr. Mann demanded I hat Mrs. Gray IH be summarily shut out of the commit . IH leu aud the bureau of Indian affairs. : H Representative Hill of Connecticut, H Republican, protested against the ap- IH nropriation of any money for a further IH inquiry into Indian all airs. He de- H nounced the proposed trip to Now Mex- H ico as a forerunner of others "until H 200 or J50 subcommittees of inresti- H gation arc wandering around the eouu- H try training their olfactory sense in trying Jo smell out something to inves- H Mr. Graham made no replv to Mr. H M ana's charges and the resolution was ' adopted, til to '11. ;j H |