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* Secretary Stevens may find some (if only a little) consolation in the fact that the granddaddy of all congressional investigations was directed at an Army chief. In 1792 the House established the first congressional investigating committee in U.S. history to probe the massacre of Major General Arthur St. Clair's Indian-fighting army near the Ohio-Indiana border. St. Clair, whose command of 2,000 had been largely "purchased from prisons, wheelbarrows and brothels at $2 a month," resigned his commission, but was eventually exonerated. By remarkable coincidence, a direct descendant of the general, Boston lawyer James St. Clair, is assistant counsel for Secretary Stevens.</Footnote>
<Footnote>*Said the U.S. Supreme Court in the Teapot Dome case in 1927: "The only legitimate object the Senate could have in ordering the investigation was to aid it in legislating . . ."</Footnote>
<Footnote>* Annoyed by the dog's barking at night, a Tennessean had fired his shotgun into the master's bedroom.