For months a Committee of the House of Representatives has been investigating the conduct of the j War, and its task, now nearly com-Pleted, will take the shape of 20 bulky volumes containing some 13,000,000 words which the new Secretary of War will be expected to read. But he will do nothing of the kind.
No one ever reads the report of an investigating committee, because jit is unnecessary. If the majority of the committee is politically opposed! to the Government the report will censure the Government; if it is of the same political faith as the Government. there will: be warm commendation. As the majority of the Committee is Republican and
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