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Show ACCUSE WILSON OF IK'iC INFLUENCE MICHIGAN SENATOR, TESTIFYING IN LOOPY INVESTIGATION, PROVES OUT8POKEN. Criticises the Committee for Not Ha Ing Asked Members of the Senate Whether the President Had Sought to Influence Them, Washington. -An unexpected turn w as given the senate's lobby Investigation Investiga-tion late Friday, when Senator Town-send Town-send of Michigan, republican, declared de-clared on the stand that the Influence wielded by President Wilson and the Democratic secret caucus upon the making of the tariff bill constituted the "nearest approach to undue Influence In-fluence upon members of congress" that the Investigating committee would be alile to find. Senator Townsend criticised the committee com-mittee for not having asked members of the senate whether the president had sought to Influence them and declared de-clared that even though the president had not Intended It. his recent denunciation de-nunciation of "lobbies" working In support of changes In the tariff would force certain senators to vote against amendments they knew to be just |