Show IN INQUIRY INTO HIGH IG GOST OF LIVING If Senate and House Conduct In Independent Independent dependent Ones Feared May Reach Different Conclusion IS BOUND TO BE POLITICAL President I Desires to HaTO Effect of Tariff on Question Jull Fully Washington Feb the senate anti and will conduct rival In Investigations Into the cause o of tho high COst or of living is II a question that con concerns earns cerns Republican political leaders more deeply than any other problem now be before fore ore I If both bodies conduct such nn an examination the leaders fear Cear that different conclusions may bo be reached nn and that such differing ro 10 ports parts on the eve ove of the congressional elections will prove to the Republican majority Nevertheless s Republicans of the tho senate sen senate ate apparently are determined to order such an inquiry and to conduct It with the tho utmost dispatch regardless o of the views of oC horne home leaders The Lodge resolution reported from Crom the senate committee on finance had been amended so ns as to provide for a committee or of seven soven senators and It probably will bo be reported tomorrow from Crom the committee on contingent ex cx pense The enlarged committee will give Senator Elk Elkins opportunity to servo as one or of the Investigators if IC ho he cares and will unito the Republicans In favor of the tho Inquiry Thera Is a possibility that thal the tho investigation proposed by the house com oom on ways and means ma may not be ordered but no decision was reached on this point That the Inquiry 1 bo be virtually political In character Is admitted on every overy side The Republican leaders concede con code cede that the agitation about the cost of living will w Ill play pla a prominent part In the congressional campaign and they show no disposition to their purpose to fix up their fences Es Especially It seem scams the they want to refute re refute fute charges that the tariff Is responsible sible for or the increases Increase They Thoy will try to show that hat there is If n a wIde difference between wholesale and retail prices anti and that the tarl tariff Is not responsible for these differences It is 15 reported that PresIdent Tart Taft de dc desires sires th effect of the tariff upon necessaries saries of oC life to be bc determined b by the inquiry and that ho will not tolerate any effort to gloss over an any ill III eff effects ts |