The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
COMMITTEE WiLl
Be BUSY MAKING
INVESTIGATIONS
Seven Boards Of Inquiry, Appoints
By Congress To Probe Charges q
Crookedness and Other Affairs
During Summer.
What Congress Has and Has MOI
Done During Session Which Ended
Saturday Night.

WASHINGTON, June 27-seven
committees assigned by congress 70
poke sharp sticks into dark places
are today arranging to do the work
and tell congress about it early In the
next session.
The first to apply the probe il the
senate committee appointed to invests
gate the police system of the Third
degree" Senator Brandegee (Rep,
| Comm. said today that the committees
will remain In the city long enough to-
ascertain the experience of the Wash
ington police In the application Of this
method OF securing evidence. A sub
committee will conduct an inquiry In
western cities. Notice will be given
to all who desire to appear before the
Investigators.
| The house committee of which Rem
Burke, OF South Dakota, has charge
will meet at Oklahoma City. Okla, n
the first week In August to begin thu
investigation demanded by Rep. Mo
CURE Of Oklahoma. Senator Corr
charged that corruption was involved
In an attempt to induce the govern
ment to approve contracts that j. r.
McMurray had procured with about
10000 Choctaws and Chickasaws. n
was alleged that the execution of the
contracts would yield McMurray and
his associates fee ranging some
where between $4,000 900 and $4,000,
900. Mcclure was offended by critt
cism of himself implied by part oi
the Gore statements.
To Probe Cores Charges.
| Plans babe not yet been formulated
by a senate committee of five com.
missioned to investigate Cores
charges of attempted bribery. Senator
Jones chairman of the committee, n
inclined to the belief that the investi-
CATION will be postponed until the
next session.
The members OF the Ballinger-Pin
Ichot Investigation will meet on Sept.
liz. They will spend the heated term In
|studying the printed miles Of argument
snd testimony and then will meet to
TRY to reach a nagreement. That he
ing impossible, sections of the commit
lee Win present varying reports.
A senate committee on which Sena-
tor Burrows, of Michigan. Is chairman,
will meet in Chicago on Sept. 10, 10
Ipry into the charges that William
Lorimer, of Illinois, came to his seat
In the senate as the result Of bribery.
Chairman Olmstead. Of the house
committee assigned the duty OF inves-
tigating charges sof the sale OF vast
areas of friar lands In the Philip
pines to the sugar trust and various
friends of officials, has gone home to
Pennsylvania without announcing
plans for the inquiry. Rep. Hubbard.
Of Iowa, a member of the COMMITTEES,
said today the general understanding
seemed to be that the investigation
would be conducted during the recess
of congress. The short session OF
next winter would afford hardly time
enough for the work.
| A senate committee of which Sena-
tor Clapp, of Minnesota. is chairman.
was directed to learn the extent of the
property held by the Choctaws and
Chickasaws. to investigate the McMur-
ray contracts; whether the compensa-
ton therein provided for Is reason
able and whether the Indians need
lawyers. Clapp's committee, having
charge of Indian affairs, has all the
information necessary to answer tina
questions propounded without calling
in witnesses. It is probable that the
committee will grant hearings next
winter to persons desiring to present
their view and will prepare a report.
Review of Work BY Congress.
Now that congress had adjourned.
the stnate and house having formally
ended the second session of the sixty
| first congress, Saturday night, people
| who have watched the proceedings ara
pointing today to the work that was
done and that which was not &C
complished The leading Roosevelt
policy that the Taft administration
tackled is conceded TO have been the
railroad bill While this measure, a.
! enacted into law. has many commend
able provisions. II Is silent on one Inn
portant point. II does not Ak basis
by which the interstate commeroe
commission can determine whether q
rate is reasonable.
BY the provisions OF the postal saw
ings bill any administration that may
be hostile TO the idea can restrict its
provisions to a dozen postofiices IL II
cares to. or can exclude entire sec
tions of the country from its pro-
visions. II is expected bills win b
introduced when congress convenes
again compelling the founding OF
these banks In all postofices.
The statehood bill, which was enact
ed into law and which admits Arizona
and Nfw Mexico to the union, con-
tains a provision that these territories
must pay certain bonds. This pro
vision Is termed an outrage.
Only one conservation bill has been
passed and that was the least Inn
portant of the Roosevelt policies.
Nothing whatever was done TO protect
the coal deposits of Alaska. BY the
wording of the railroad rate Law the
interstate commerce commission vas
compelled to admit II had no jurisdtc-
ton over railroads In Alaska Thn
makes II easier for these interests 20
exploit the Alaska lands.