The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-04
BOX PEACE Plan
PROBE LOOMS
!. IN CONGRESS
4
'IrreconciIabIes Claim Ito OBJ
ject Is League Propa-
ganda.
BY GEORGE r.. HOLMES,
International News Service.


International News Service.
The Sixty-eighth Congress, a
month old and not yet organized for
legislative business, was threatened
today with engulfment in sea Of
Investigations and inquiries.
Veterans around the Legislative
halls at the Capitol declared today
that never before have so many Con.
gressional probes been agreed upon
or proposed in so short a time as the
present session has been under way.
No less than q score Of investiga.
tons, some Of them Important and
some Of them relatively unimportant,
have been projected In the four short
weeks the Sixty eighth Congress has
been on the job, and some OF them
already are assured.
Box Plan To he PrObed.
A brand new NJ doomed in the
offing today-@ investigation into
the circumstaR surrounding the
Box peace plan, 4ch II to be- an
nounced next Nom say. and for which
an energetic campaign Of education
will be launched simultaneously with
its publication.
The ''irreconcilables" in the SEN.
ate who have secured advance copies
OF the plan were strongly criticizing
1t today In the privacy Of their Of
fices and the. Hobbies Of the Capitol,
| and threatening an Investigation of
League OF Nations propaganda"
with which they asserted the coun-
try is about to be deluged.
Senator James A. Reed Dem.) Of
Missouri already has O. resolution
pending which would provide q Sen.
atorial inquiry into the propaganda
and influences" designed to control
the foreign or domestic policies OF
the United States"
Dome Probe Under Way.
One investigation, that of the leas.
ing of Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to
Sinclair interests, already il under
way.
Two others have already been
agreed upon-one by the Senate
Foreign Relations COMMITTEES into
the whole question OF Russian
recognition, and another r. the
Senate Committee on Priv 1and
Elections into the vaiidF the
title of Senator Earl y yield
(Dem.) Of Texas. TO his This
latter probe also will into the
kul Klux Khan issue.
Other proposed inv stigafiOns,
some Of which are cons dered GER
tain of approval before lAany days,
include:
Maj. Gen. Leonard Woods admin
istration of the Philippines, with
off-shoots dealing with the stock
speculation Of his son and aide,
Lieut.. Osborne Wood, and the oil
stock promotion of his other son.
Leonard Wood. r., proposed by
Congressman Frear RepD of Wis.
consin.
Bar Jaunt Inquiry.
The sale of arms and munitions
OF war by the Coolidge Administra-
ton to the Obregon government of
Mexico, by Congressman Fairehild
Repl of New York.
The circumstances surrounding
the chartering of an English vessel
by the American Bar Association
for next summers pilgrimage to
London, by Senator Jones (Rep.) of
Washington.
Campaign expenditures by Presi.
Dental candidates, by Senator Cara
way Dem.l of Arkansas.
The contract under which the
Federal Government annually dis.
poses of it's seal skins to the Fouke
Fur Company, Of st. Louis, by
Senator Wheeler Dem.) Of Montana.
The sources and alleged leakages
Of the so-called diplomatic liquor"
in Washington by Congressman
Davis (Dem.l of Tennessee.
The resources and activities Of the
Anti-Saloon League by Congressman
Tinkham Rep) OF Massachusetts,.
The alleged flood of propaganda"
behind the Mellon tax reduction
program which it's opponents at
tribute to the United States Cham.
Der of Commerce and 'Uig bust
ness" interests of the country.
These are only the major inves.
LEGATIONS that have been proposed.
There are scads of smaller ones-all
within the few working weeks that
Congress has been at it.
Others will be forthcoming from
time to time as the heat of the ap-
preaching political campaign begins
to find it's way into the halls and
Hobbies of the Capitol.