The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
REPUBLICANS L0NG-WINDED IN THEIR INVESTIGATE

Washington, July 20.-(Special) )- Precedent established when republi- cans secured control of Congress in 1918 is being followed, and every thing on which men cannot agree. and everything out of which good politics." in partisan sense, might be developed, Is subject to an of ficial, prolonged and very expensive investigation.
 At the present time Congress is prying into the conditions which sometime back obtained in the coal fields of West Virginia. strong effort is under way to subject the south and it's institutions to an in- vestigation. The report on the Berg doll investigation has not been pre- pared. And there are numerous oth- CTS including the biggest of them all that which would find the cause of the financial plight of the producers in the agricultural belts of the coun- try.
 The majority of such investigations are conceived in partisanship. They amount to very little, if anything During the final days of the preced- ing session of Congress, Muscle Shoals, the airship construction pro- gramme, the part the navy played In the war, the alleged shortcomings of the Wilson administration, every thing, in fact, which might have had bearing on the presidential cam paign was investigated. The nation has profited from none of them at all. The expense has been exceeding ly heavy as in many of the investsxa- tions junkets in palace cars were deemed necessary.
 Investigating Committee One Investigating committee has Just reported on the notorious Sims Daniels episode. The committee con sisted of three republican and two | democratic senators The republicans found the charges and contentious of sims correct. The democrats found themlbaseless. Had the democrats been In a majority, the majority report would have vindicated Daniels, and the minority, Sims. As a document of value, the extensive, exhaustive. elaborate and highly expensive re- port cannot be considered. In the majority report there is~ one feature regarded as unfortunate. The repub- hcans were so anxious to impale Daniels that in presenting their argument they seemed to forget or ignore the fact that the American navy, during the war, rendered very valuable service, and that it is the consensus of present-day opinion mat Josephus Daniels made a very acceptable Secretary of the Navy.
 DeplorabIe Feature
 A deplorable feature of the report Is that 1t was written just as 1t was predicted that it would be written lnatit would have two chapters un- ike Tn all pertinent respects. The investigating senators knew what the verdict would be. Yet they in- vestigated most thoroughly for weeks ana months to the nth degree
 Certain democratic members of the House have conceived the idea of calling upon Congress to investigate investigators, certainly to the extent or compiling and making public the cost or all Investigations since the repuplicans won Congress three years ago. In view of the report of tne public health service that anemia II not starvation. preys on the tenant classes In the south and in view of the iact that under such conditions sioo IS considerable sum of money. if Woud be interesting were Congress 10 declare that it had wasted many thousands. in a futile effort to ascer- tam graft as practiced by the ore ceding administration, or in a sue cess1ul effort to play politics for this party, or taht individual.
 Ihe democrats will offer the resoiution that the figures be cited put It will not prevail. The repubIj- majority.