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Show HOUSE HEARS PRO AND CON ON WAR WASTE Congressional Investigations Reviewed in Two Reports Submitted WASHINGTON. March 3 In t0,000-wnrd i-eport submitted to tbw house. Chairman Graham of the subcommittee sub-committee on war Investigation reviewed re-viewed irstimony relating to war department de-partment expenditures for ordnance and supplies. Democratic members filed a minority report, dissenting from the Republican views. Mont of the findings have been previously published or discussed In honwe debate. "Vacts reported and recorded In the evidence speak for themselves. said the . Graham report, "and. In the main, have not been denied or disputed except by the clous of rhetoric and a profusion of words Intended to cover up the administration ad-ministration of the business affairs of the war department. The record of . this administration will be most endur- j Ins; for a ha!f-eentury at least, during which time the people will be com-pel com-pel led to work and save and pay the debts of the government, much of which was Incurred through colossal waste and Inefficiency. "The American soldiers lought nobly and well, and while they fought Ignorance Ig-norance and Inefficiency at home wasted their national resources nd fattened the profiteer. Representative Garrett of Tennessee, In a minority report, declared the majority ma-jority report was predicated entirely upon the "determination to criticise and find fault with practically all accomplished ac-complished by the war department. j Declaring Individuals had been attacked at-tacked without warrant, he added: "Alt testimony given In disproof of the evidence evi-dence that the majority have chosen to use has been not only disregarded but deliberately thrown aside, and throughout the whole of the report there runs, the same thread of sinister suggestion which has marked both formal reports of the committee and speeches of members on the floor." |