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Show vestigate it. And eg forth, ad infinitum. infini-tum. From a congress which sets one group of investigators upon the heels of another and multiplies reams of evidence already taxing the columns of the public press borrowing a phrasa front the litany Good Lord, deliver us! A PARTISAN CHARGE. Congressman As well of Louisiana, seeing that investigations are quite in fashion in both house and senate, proposes to a dil to the number by creating cre-ating a commit tee to investigate the committees which have been investigating investi-gating this, that and the othc? mutter, chiefly the expenditures to the credit or discredit of the administration. Mr. Aswell charges that the Republican majority ma-jority is playing politics in ordering these wholesale investigations and he now suggests that congress get after tho investigators and find out what they havo accomplished. It will be admitted that much of the tiiro of congress has been taken up in inquiries concerning a variety of mat- tors, but if, as Mr. Aswell says, a desire to manufacture campaign material underlies un-derlies the appointment of previous investigating in-vestigating commissions he will havo a hard time in quieting the suspicion that his own resolution is prompted by a wish to make a little ammunition of a different brand and for tho advantage ad-vantage of his own party, for Mr. Aswell, being from Louisiana, naturally is proud to call himself a Democrat. The Aswell resolution may properly be si det racked as creating an embarrassing embar-rassing precedent. For example, his invest in-vest igators investigating committee might do or fail to do something which would call for a not her committee to in-. |