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The Chattanooga News
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee
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On Jan. 16 in Washington, special investigator Francis J. Heney accused House Republican leader James R. Mann of blocking a 1917 probe into meat packers by amending an agricultural bill after secret consultations with them to avoid FTC oversight.
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Heney Makes Further Charges Against
Republican Floor Leader.
Washington, Jan. 16.—Further linking the name of James R. Mann, republican floor leader of the house, with the packing interests of the country, Francis J. Heney, special government investigator, today declared that Mann blocked an investigation of the packers early in 1917.
"When Mr. Mann said that his amendment to the agricultural bill proposing that the packers' investigation be placed in the hands of the bureau of markets, he spoke an untruth when he said the packers know nothing of his amendment." Heney asserted.
"I shall produce letters," he continued, "taken from the private files of meat packers, showing that the packers had conferred with Mr. Mann prior to his amendment, and that these conferences related to an effort to side-track the Borland resolution, which would have placed the investigation in the hands of the federal trade commission."
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Washington
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Jan. 16
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heney asserted that mann spoke an untruth and promised to produce letters showing packers conferred with mann prior to his amendment to side-track the borland resolution
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Francis J. Heney, special government investigator, declared that James R. Mann, republican floor leader of the house, blocked an investigation of the packers early in 1917 by proposing an amendment to the agricultural bill placing the investigation in the hands of the bureau of markets after conferring with packers to side-track the Borland resolution for the federal trade commission