The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
Eight Senate Inquiries
 To Haue Final Airing
Daugherty, Oii, Land Frauds, Elections And
 Box Peace Carried On List Of Reports

the United States, and charges of the use of propaganda to influence legisla- | tion.
 Further hearings into campaign ex- 1 penditures will be held shortly after 1 Congress convenes. This investigation was authorized under a resolution. in- | troduced by Senator LaFollette, re- publican, Wisconsin, and the investi. gation was opened during the last few weeks of the campaign when Senator La Toilette charged the republicans with using large "slush fund.-"
 The investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau was started as the re- suit of resolution introduced by Sena- tor Couzens, republican, Michigan, which directed the committee to recon mend corrective legislation at the close of the hearings. Brief hearings were held during the summer recess, but the ! committee recessed while Earl J. Davis, committee counsel and his staff of in vestigators assembled additional infor- ma tion.
 Senator Spencer, republican, Mis-. souri, chairman of the committee in vestigating the election of Senator May field, democrat, Texas, plans to reopen that inquiry after Congress assemblies The investigation is the result of con- test brought by George B. B.: Teddy, In dependent democrat, who was endorsed by the republicans in the Texas cam raign. Peddy's petition charges that the Texas election laws were violated and that the Ku Klux Klan influenced the election.
 Report Withheld
 The taking of testimony in the de- partment of justice is regarded by some committee members as practically com pleted. A final report, will be with held pending the decision of the su- preme court on the case of Nal Daugh- erty, brother of the former Attorney General, who refused to recognize a committee subpoena calling for his ap- pearance with records of his bank at Washington Courthouse, Ohio. The case has been advanced to December l on the supreme court docket. f
 A partial report was made by the committee Investigating the Teapot Dome and California oil leases at the close of the last session, but an attempt by the democratic members of the com mittee to get it adopted by the Senate failed The partial report was pre- pared by Senator Walsh, democrat, | N1OuJuud, S1Sucu OJ u AiuJOhAby OA the committee. Senator Spencer, Mis- souri, a republican member of the con- nittee, submitted minority state ment.
 It is possible that final report con taining remedial suggestions will be held in abeyance pending the court de- cisions on the contempt charges against Harry r. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome. who refused to answer questions submitted by committee members. The case is now in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia.
 Little Headway
 The investigation into charges of the use of money, advertising and propa- ganda to influence legislation made lit tie headway during the last session. The resolution calling for the injury was in- troduced by Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, who asked that the commit tee go into Edward w. Bok's $100,000 American Peace Award. When the first two witnesses, Box and Esther Everett Lape, who was associated with the award, refused to answer questions propounded by the committee, it ad- journed without taking further action A final report has not been made, and