Persistent charges made, among
' others, by Senators Arthur Vanden
berk and Rush Holt will bring prob
ably next week a firm demand by
Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsyl
vania. for action on his resolution
for a tiiorough, nation-wide inves
tigation of WPA.
THE LOBBY INQUIRY
When Sanator Hugo Black of
Alabama, set out with his sub-com
mittee to investigate the lobbying
against the New Deal’s utility
measure, passed last year, he start
ed something.
The United States Supreme Court
may have to decide whether or
not he’ll finish it.
Black's Committee wanted copies
of telegrams sent by various utility
and business concerns, by their law
yers and by others to the Federal
Communications Commission; the
Commission went to the telegraph
company and got the telegrams.
The Committee got the telegrams,
but so far it hasn't been able to use
them or make them public.
Silas Strawn, former president of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
and a prominent Chicago lawyer
foe of the New Deal, first obtained
an injunction restraining Western
Union from handing over tele
grams of his law firm.
Then. Hearst asked the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia
for a similar injunction. His peti
tion would require the Black Com
mittee to return all the seized mes
sages and would enjoin any future
such seizures. The Communications
Commisson was named as a party
to the sut for an injunction.
