The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
SHEFFIELD IS READY
 FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT WORK
Nobody Seems Worried A bout Irregularities Which Are to Be Invest igated By Committee
 Starting Today
Ny II. FoNrArNA LITTLE.

oheff1eld, Ala, January Is. Special. )-Nobody is fused up, excited or alarmed hero
 because of the coming to towr
 Monday of the congressiona investigation committee, whose
 official duties it has been an
 nounced consists of invest
 gating alleged irregularities in the building of the Sheffield Muscle Shoals nitrogen enter prises.
 The committee is composed of one democratic and two republican mem
 bers of Congress, Representative Graham of Illinois being the chair man. But to even up the score Us j the House in the person of Congress man Ed Almon will be in tow.
 the party or else he will guide Il
 distinguished visitors about d'uin
 their sojourn here.
 Quite quiescently the coming of tho congressional committee has been awaited here; indeed there has been but slight anxiety about it. In fac there is disposition being manifested
 to receive the visitors with "widc stretched arms" which would give as surance of a cordial and informal vol come to the visitors or course it is hal f.,,.. coming here in quest of something dark and irregular" ip the governmcnt expenditures in this district They may find that some things were slight- ly 'disjointed" in the building of the great industries as might be expected ! when 5000 men are hastily brou.ht together on hurry-up job. But even so the investigation may lead the committee into a contretemps which
 may cause them to regret the folly Of their way"
 In relation to other war-tfme pro- jects established by the government. 1 there was certainly less needless waste 1 in the construction of tho nitrorep l plants in this region, than was the cA 1 in similar instances during the war | Erected as they were as a part of tllis i country's vast war programme. thesc great nitrate industries have the l - sum, these government plants will for ever stand as monument to thg energy and enterprise of the Ame ican people.
 There is no other feeling localy bu, that the investigation committee fron the halls of congress will meet with
 the surprise of its life, when ii zoe through with its tour of "investiga tion'' in the Sheffield Muscle Shoalr I t-ta l. are something worth while for sight, seeing parties; but the Wilson dam en- terprise Is another more marvellous thing. II Is expected that the coming visitors. on investigation bent vii have 4 desire to see it. evsn though they are not charged with the grave responsibility of making an ipvesttga
 ton of the vast work going on in thA dam constRuction. It is ardeAN hoped that the House members VI avail themselves of the opportunity
 seeing the Wilson dam--the groate enterprise undertaken by this goves
 ment since the completion of the Pa anna canal.
 WILSON DAM NEWS
 The working force at the dam
 being increased as rapidly as labor .
 cruiting conditions will permit as the demands require. There are no
 4700 men engaged. and the 5000 ma
 will be attained within another fer night, if the present favorable weaths continues.
 Operations on the Sheffield side ct the river are rapidly approaching the magnitude of the work on the siorth side. Construction division No. ou .le Sheffield side has moved into the rew office buildings on the bluffs mi. affords great advantage both as re- gards the comfort and effieieue* cf the office forces. as well as making contact with the work more direct thus saving time and confusion
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