Show THE COST OF LUG LING INCREASE HAS CAUSED EVEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE joint comm atee from house hous e and senate to invest gate cond lions and report what fremed es may be effected washington the increased cost of living was the subject of a concur rent resolution offered in the on tuesday by representative hull of 0 tennessee it provides tor for a joint committee of seven members ot of the house and five members ot of me senate I 1 to investigate conditions and report what remedies may be effected through legislation in consonance with the resolution introduced by representative hull secretary wilson of the them department of 0 agriculture has ordered a a sweep ing inquiry into the cost of living in the united states I 1 realize said secretary wilson that we have undertaken a bigi con tract but we can carry it out we have the men and we have me tue I 1 11 oney the work will be done thoroughly much flork ork will be done bs by inspectors ot of the bureau of animal industry but other divisions ot of the department will assist obtaining unanimous consent to ad dress the house for thirty minutes soon after that body bady reconvened alter atter the holiday recess representative douglas of ohio declared declare a griat ae a method of making appropriations appropriation s tor for government expenditures appeared to him to be radically wrong he ile said no opportunity was afforded members of th the e house to consider the relative importance of various appropriations proposed mr douglas said that the food pro of the country was not keep ing pace with the growth of tion and yet he said congress had done practically nothing to encourage development of the soil last year congress appropriated to the army and navy and to military lien pensions AB ya or of our our total revenue continued mr douglas and we appropriated to oui our great department of agriculture 13 or about 2 per cent of our re venue |