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Now Senator Couzens is recovered, reanimated with the lust of life and investigation. Mr. Couzens and the two Democratic members of the Com- mittee, Senators King of Utah and Jones of New Mexico, were eager to reopen the inquiry.
There was a special Committee of the Senate to investigate the Internal Revenue Bureau. This committee functioned last Spring. It employed a special investigator, the San Francisco lawyer Francis J. Heney, whose salary was paid by Senator Couzens of Michigan. This act brought down upon the
Senate the wrath of the President, who pointed out that it was against the law for anyone to serve the Government who was not in its pay (TIME, Apr. 21). With the adjournment of Congress in June, the Committee also adjourned. Senator Couzens, its moving spirit, was ill at Johns...
Mr. Watson, who is Chairman of their Committee, frowned. He said he believed that the country was tired of investigations. He asserted his belief that no further good could come of this one. He intimated that if they were going to insist on hearings he would resign as Chairman. The...
Within 34 hours, Senator Watson made good his threat to resign as Chairman and Senator Couzens was elected in his place.