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Show , T"E PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE. B ct.,?fhi Sen-ato c?mmiee on military affairs promptly BBJ suited an investigation to fix responsibility for the de- gctivo cartridges supplied to our soldiers in France H I nose n iS for fcfe ministration to explain and dis- j 10S0 of' lf lt can- The administration has made it very bVbVbm bhVbVbVbVbVbVJbbVbVbVbVbhb9'' BbBBBbmbmPOs' -. plain that it wants no congressional co-operation m carrying car-rying on the war. The President has said that he regards any proposal to add a congressional committee to the existing ex-isting war machinery as a design to hamper .the administration adminis-tration in the conduct of the war. In consequence, ' defective cartridges should bo laid on the Preside table. They were made in a government arserr his appointees have been in charge, where his p '?in agents bought the potassium in which the fatal tro. ' was found, where his inspectors, chemists and other -ub ordinates have had full sway. It is for him, and not f n a committee of Congress, to put these men on the carpet and to find out the who, the why and the when of the matter. The Senate, by an impressive vote, has offered the President a joint committee of Congress whose" membership mem-bership could give attention to things of this kind and whose efforts would serve to prevent any such sinister mischance as has now been developed happily too early to do any damage. Mr. Wilson has rejected such assistance. assist-ance. If he could "go it alone" then' there is no occasion for the Senate to rush to his aid now. |