The Congress: Inquiry

Pennsylvania senatorial primary expenditures were last week scrutinized by a Senatorial Committee appointed to examine charges that the candidates, especially Vare and Pepper, had spent extravagant sums during their campaigns.

Heading the committee is inquisitive Senator Reed, Democrat from Missouri; the other Democrat on the committee is Senator King of Utah, one of the least silent men in the upper house. Young Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not...

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