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Show Veterans' Bureau to Be Investigated j C CHARGES a V or wasts . WT J Q I mony with Gen. Hlnes, appointed by President Harding to head the veterans vet-erans bureau, "as far as it Is possible and consistent with a thorough investigation inves-tigation of the serious charges that have been made against the operation of the veterans' bureau." The senate directed the committee "to investigate the leases and contracts con-tracts executed by the veterans bureau bu-reau or the Treasury department, for vocational schools and hospitals, and for the purchase, rentals, and sales of real estate and supplies used or to be used, directly or Indirectly, by the veterans' bureau, and the matters and conditions In the nemlses set forth, and to report their findings, together with recommendations for the improvement im-provement of sueh conditions, to the next regular sessions of congress." It Is set forth In the preamble that complaints are being made against alleged al-leged delay by the bureau in the adjustment ad-justment of claims for the relief of disabled veterans, and that there has been great and needless delay In the construction of hospitals and In providing pro-viding proper hospitalization, as a result re-sult of which unnecessary suffering exists. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hlnes, the new director, announces bis hearty cooperation. WASHINGTON. Charges of waste, extravagance, and mismanagement mismanage-ment In the veterans' bureau will be the subject of a thorough Inquiry this summer, under the senate resolution resolu-tion creating a special committee of three members empowered with authority au-thority to sit during the adjournment adjourn-ment of congress. The committee will be headed by Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), who won the distinguished service medal as a major In the Three hundred and eleventh field artillery in the World war. The other members of the committee com-mittee will be Senator Walsh (Dem.. Mass.), a member of the special committee com-mittee which Investigated the treatment treat-ment of disabled ex-service men last year, and Senator Oddle ( Rep., Nev.). Senator Reed said the policy of the committee would be tq work in har- |