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Show I allowances and rental of quarters to the Government, was again brought up. Mr. Griggs of Georgia got into an argument with Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin as to the authorship of the document, docu-ment, and insisted, over the protest of Mr. Cooper, that It was prepared under the direction of Gen. Brlstow. The Bristow Report. During his remarks Mr. Griggs referred re-ferred to the recent report of the Post-office Post-office department as the "Bristow report," re-port," and this opened up a fresh discussion dis-cussion of that document which had brought forth such a storm of Indignation Indigna-tion from members of the House. He said that as a member of the committee commit-tee he did not see how the committee could have done otherwise than to make the report public. "Was there anything In It which caused the committee to print that data under the heading. 'Charges Concerning Concern-ing VMembera of Congress'?" inquired Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin. , Mr. Griggs said he did not indorse that and it was unfortunate, whereupon where-upon Mr. Overstreet, chairman of the committee, explained that as soon as he-saw the heading he notified the Government Gov-ernment printing office that it was not Justified by the manuscript. Mr. Cooper sarcastically remarked that he never had known the Government Govern-ment printing office to print anything that was not in the copy. "I understand the heading was written writ-ten in the Postofflce department," Mr. Griggs said, in reply. , Mr. Bartlett of Georgia said the House soon would find out who was responsible re-sponsible for It. j Mr. Griggs maintained that It was I BristoWs report. Continuing, he sail it had leaked out prior to the report that the committee was la possession of information that would condemn members of Congress. In the committee commit-tee he had contended that if there were to be leaks it was the committee's duty to make it public, which they had done. . No Suppression of Facta. The United States." he said, 'la too powerful and too great to convict any man by a suppression of facts. But if the publication of all those things would convict not only men under indictment, in-dictment, but men higher up or lower , I down, the report should be taken for 1 what It is worth." If there were men in the Inspection service, he declared, who were afraid to have their reports see daylight, such men ought to. be gotten rid of and men put in who were not afraid. "We sought to Investigate the Post-office Post-office department," he said, "and you gentlemen turned out here like hornets and insisted that the whole department from top to bottom must be investigated." investi-gated." Both Republicans and Democrats, he said, had declared that they would "tear the roof off the old thing." and. he inquired. "What did you do? The House got scared and turned tall." Mc Griggs then said the present system sys-tem which had grown up in the de- I partment requiring members to go per- i sonally and ask what their constituent were entitled to was wrong. ll . The secret regulations of the Post 1 office department Mr. Griggs con demned as a wrong system. He advo- cated the publication of a departmental departmen-tal dally record and the requirement that the rules of the department b j made public - BRISTOWS B.EPOET SCORED. WASHINGTON, March 16. During " the discussion of the postofflce appropriation appro-priation bill the recent report of the . Postofflce department , regarding Congressional solicitation of clerk hlrs |