Show TON MELLON UNPOPULAR WITH i I LAWMAKERS SO CHANCE TO INVESTIGATE IS WELCOMED I House of Representatives Hard Hard Up for Something ing to Dol Do Doand nd nd It Seeks Front Page Publicity By I Launching Probe or Two nV fly RODEnT ROBERT T SL LL S e ial Corre ot or The I Sta St l rIght Cops 1926 by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Pre 3 Association I WASHINGTON jAn Jin The 9 national capital once more Ims returned to I normalcy Congress ha started a series of ot III CongressI holl Investigations After their Christmas boll holl- I days dan senators fd d representatives came back with a 11 bang bane The In- In In Investigations I aro arc are a a good thing D of or legislating Ie for tor the Country drags terribly under the I existing senate rules and the In- In In Investigations must be depended d upon to furnish the high pUb pUb-I pub pub- I pub spots f I hOUSE ni iL VI rr H iThe house of ot representatives Is 1 particularly hard up tor for some some- something something some thing to do at the th present time time- The big g supply bills for tor the government eov have llave not yet begun to roll through and no one one- has yet ed out just what SOrt on of ot re- re relict re hat Is going coln to be given to the farmers Just at the moment the members of ot the farm tarm bloc are go- go goIng ro-Inar Ing along alone with th the low thrIft demands mands but It Is s s difficult to see flee how they canO can no O very tar far The farm tarm bloc wants want to get Bet a fair shake out of ot the tariff while the Democrats seek see to shako shake the tar tar- tar tariff iff altogether The Th alliance there there- therefore therefore fore for cannot be called an entirely healthy one The house meantime has grown rown jealous of ot the senate occupying all the tho limelight In the th matter mailer of ot in- in In ve Two years ago ao when the senate was In a n whirl of In- In In Inquiries s the the- countr country started an Investigation of ot the shipping board but somehow or other It Iti i did not seem to get set anywhere The oil nn and 1 rt n committees ot of the senate got cot all the front i rage page space I WAYTS WAl PUBLICITY I This year ear the house wants to get In on the general congressional toI I al publicity It has started mildly by Inquiring Into the rubber trust Inasmuch as all the tle rub rub- rubber rubber rub rubber I ber are foreigners the house presupposes Investigation I tion would be popular I with the the home borne folks and wont won't step upon I any of ot the home folks toes the house I li rather proud of ot its new reputation as the conservatIve I branch of ot congre congress S an and 1 proceeds tn In dIgnIfied distinctions from the manners affected by bl the senate The senate has ha barely barely started upon Its program The senate te has haa plenty of ot work to do In the reg- reg regular regUlar ular ular run of things but Is always alwa's read ready to lay It aside when there Is an opportunity to do a little investigating In Certain senators and representatives who have ha ben been gunning for tOr Secretary of ot the Tr Mellon have at last ob- ob obtained ob obtained tallied their wish ish for an Investigation tion of ot the gove handling ot of charges against the aluminum trust rust generally known as ns a Mel Mel- Mellon Mel Mellon lon Jon company Mr r Mellons Mellon's busi bust business business ness and nd financial connections were so vast at the time he first came Into Inlo the cabinet It 11 i is a wonder r he has haa not been dragged before special committees of ot the senate senate- or house before this MELLON H For some reason or another the th secretary of or the treasury never bas ha been popular on Capitol The rhe older senators and representatives representatives taUves who have been handling the financial legislation of the tover nent for the past 20 years have e rather resented resent d Mr Sir Mellon naturally naturally who naturally ha has not kow kow towed to them In fiscal matters Ad- Ad Admitting Ad Mr Sir Mellons Mellon's genius tenius and wizardry as a banker these solons have co contended tende-d tende that they knew I mor i about the State slate t te of at the federal ted ted- er eral finances than Mr Mellon is one the called so-called Mellon Melton tax lax bills have had such uch hard bard sledding in con con- con congress gress gres and why Mr Mellon him him- himself himself self se-If a asked l ed this year that his tax Ian ilan not be referred to as the Milon plan Of course there Is Isan i i nn an undying feud between Mr fr Mel Mel- Mel Mellon Ion lon and Senator Coupons Couzens of Mich- Mich MichIgan lean Mich-lean I Isan Igan They have hav openly el clashed shed but there here Is also a n lot of ot unspoken disdain for tor the eminent financier who ho d holds the treasury portfolio TAnH nO Hn The Th senate senall ver very likely will 1 e shortly Into an lIon of the th tariff commission lon rhe commission Itself l ild to court Investigation Then too It seems eem us n It If the tariff must always ahva be bethe bethe the football of politics polities Any thought ht of ot taking it out ul of politics politic would rob the two 11 old oW 1 parties of their fundamental point of ot differ differ- difference Pact ence It If It wern were not for the oc- oc oc I tariff outbreaks 11 It it would I be difficult to tell a Republican from a a Democrat In these thes parlous political times limes I Despite the vigor Igor and virulence I ot of the tariff debates of the past week there Is no thought Of pastI re- re revision rr I vision at this session of congress IThe The Democrats would not have It ItI I so They want the Issue to be precipitated into the next cam cam- campaign cam I campaign There must be some Issue so the th dependable old tariff Is Isto Isto Isto to be dragged forth to do cIo duty once more I Meantime the InvestigatIon sea sea- season sea 1 son Is on and the senate Is I happ happy |