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Show MAY AGO IRE PROBES TO LIST HOUSE MUST VOTE ON INQUIRIES INTO AIRCRAFT AND U S. BOND CHARGES Five Investigations Are Now Under Way and Two More Are Being Considered; May Report on Farm Relief Washington. With five investigations investiga-tions in full blast and two or three in a state of temporary quiesence congress is expected to decide whether wheth-er two more shall be added to the s investigations of the aircrart industry in-dustry and of the bureau of engraving engrav-ing and printing. The Daugherty investigation, the Teapot Dome investigation, the shipping ship-ping board investigation and the revenue rev-enue bureau investigation will take up where they left off last week and the investigation of alleged lano. frauds in the Rio Grande valley of Texas, asked by Senator Heflin, Democrat, of Alabama, will begin. Investigation of charges against two members of congress by a Chicago Chi-cago grand jury has been authorized but is held up waiting action of a Washington grand jury which is hearing evidence in the case. The diploma mill investigation, headed by Senator Copeland, Democrat, Demo-crat, New York, is for the time being be-ing inactive, as it is the senate's propaganda- investigation. Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, is chairman of the propaganda committee com-mittee and also chairman of the committee, com-mittee, which will investigate Senator Sena-tor Heflin's charges. While all these committees already have authority to investigate, the house must vote on resolutions by Representative Nielson, Republican, insurgent, of Wisconsin to investigate investi-gate the aircraft industry and Dy Representative King, Republican, 111-iois, 111-iois, to investigate charges of bond duplication in the bureau of engraving engrav-ing and printing. Meanwhile certain senators, contemplating demanding investigation of Red river oil legislation legis-lation passed in the closing days o; the last congress. Business in the senate in the way of legislation this week will center largely around a bill to tax gasoline-in gasoline-in the District of Columbia; the proposal pro-posal of Senator Wadsworth, Republican, Repub-lican, New York, to give states the power to affirm or reject the action of legislators in passing on constitutional constitu-tional amendments; action by the agricultural committee on a reforestation reforest-ation policy measure offered by Senator Sen-ator McNary, Republican, Oregon; and possible decision in the senate on the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure. No appropriation bills are pending in the senate. . The house will take up soon the Fish resolution for a $10,000,000 appropriation ap-propriation to purchase food supplies for relief of German women and children child-ren and the two resolutions authoriz. ing aircraft and bureau of engraving investigations. All of the proposals are expected by leaders to be adopted. Within a short .time the house will resume debate on the army bill, which began Saturday and during the week the independent offices appropriation appro-priation hill , will be reported and taken up when the army bill is out of the way. The immigration bill and the Chandler-Bloom election contest con-test from New Y"ork. are expected to follow. |