National Affairs: Hang-over Inquiries
The dying Congress bequeathed a list of investigations to be conducted by committees appointed for the purpose during the nine months until the 68th Congress convenes in December. Reports of conditions will be made by these committees, with suggestions for legislation to correct bad conditions.
These are the subjects of coming research:
Leasing the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming to the Sinclair Oil Company by former Secreretary Fall.
Coal profiteering in New England.
Evasion of the income tax.
Sale of cotton futures.
American export trade to Europe.
Charges of Veterans' Bureau mismanagement.
Sugar market manipulations.
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