MORE ALLEGATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 975, 26 March 1924, Page 5

MORE ALLEGATIONS.

INQUIRIES IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March .25. The House of Representatives, having concluded the major legislation, succumbed to the prevailing inquisitorial mood and unanimously adopted resolutions to investigate charges of bond duplication in the bureau of engraving and printing, also allegations that the aircraft manufacturers charged the Government excessive prices. The Democratic leaders confidently expect that the disclosures will in the forthcoming elections increase the Republicans’ embarrassment. Observers meanwhile declare that 16 Congressional inquiries into various irregularities which are now proceeding constitute the maximum ever achieved in any session and admit that’ virtually all have a sound basis of fact. —A. and N.Z. cable.

POPULAR RESENTMENI

NEW YORK, March 24. The New York Evening Post’s Washington correspondent says that the leaders of the House of Representatives are making frantic efforts to absolve that body from responsibility before the American public for the legisla five impotence- of the whole Congress. Popular resentment against the Senate for the neglect- of essential legislation and for daily harangues over the activities of the investigation committee are having an effect upon the House, which is rushing Appropriation Bills through with all possible speed and has cleared the taxation and soldiers’ bonus from the calendar.

President Coolidge is conferring with the House leaders for the purpose of arranging an adjournment in June. The House, which reacts more quickly than the Senate to public opinion, wishes to clear its skirts. Its entire membership must, as a matter of fact, test the polls this year, and resentment against the “do-nothing congress” would destroy many political careers.— A. and N.Z. cable.