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Show INVESTIGATE COST OF LIVING Congress Expected to Dtlve Into Question of Vital Importance to All at Its Next Sessio.s, Washington. Cost of living will be one of the chief topics at the coming Reunion ol congress. "Shall a commission be established estab-lished to fix the price of butter and eggs and mutton each morning?" "Shall a commission be given authority author-ity to Investigate the prices with a view and with authority for fixing a max! lint in price to be charged by the butcher and the baker?" "Shall competition, com-petition, to bo Insured by a slightly strengthened Sherman antitrust law, be relied upon to keep prices and wnes at the proper levels?" These are some of the big questions that have been raised by members of congress and by inquiries that have been made of members and candidates for membership during recent years. Senator Clapp, Insurgent militant of Minnesota and a foe of corporations, as chairman of the senate commit-dertaken commit-dertaken the tusk of finding a satis-tee satis-tee on interstate commerce, has un-factory un-factory answer to the questions. |