Archive Report
Archive Report
Excutive Vs. Legislative Investigations
Alternative Means of Pursuing Crime Inquiry
With the Senate Crime Investigating Committee due to expire Sept. 1, Congress will be called upon to decide within the next three months whether or not to provide for continuing surveillance of crime conditions—either by a permanent Federal Crime Commission in the Executive Branch or by a special congressional committee devoted exclusively to the task. The resolution under which the life of the Senate committee, originally extended from Mar. 31 to May 1, was extended for an additional four months provides that at the end of that period its records shall be turned over to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and that that committee shall continue to study the crime problem. Manifestly, however, a standing legislative ...