Chapter 487.
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CHAP. 487.— Joint Resolution Providing for an investigation of the official conduct of George W. English, district judge for the eastern district of Illinois. March 3, 1925.[[H. J. Res. 347](/us/bill/68/hjres/347).][[Pub. Res., No. 67](/us/bill/68/pubres/67).] Judge George W. English.Preamble.Whereas certain charges against George W. English, United States district judge for the eastern district of Illinois, have been transmitted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Judiciary Committee:
Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Subcommittee of House of Representative Judiciary Committee directed to inquire into official conduct of, and report to the House. That William D. Boies, Charles A. Christopherson, Ira G. Hersey, Earl C. Michener, Hatton W. Sumners, John N. Tillman, and Royal H. Weller, being a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to inquire into the official conduct of George W.
English, United States district judge for the eastern district of Illinois, and to report to the House whether in their opinion the said George W. English has been guilty of any acts which in contemplation of the Constitution are high crimes or misdemeanors requiring the interposition of the constitutionalPowers conferred, etc. powers of the House; and that the said special committee have power to hold meetings in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere and to Send for persons and papers, to ad1259 minister the customary oaths to witnesses, ail process to be signed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives under its seal, and be served by the Sergeant at Arms of the House or his special messenger; to sit during the sessions of the House until adjournment sine die of Sixty-eighth Congress, and thereafter until said inquiry is completed, and report to the Sixty-ninth Congress.
Sec. 2. That said special committee be, and the same is hereby,Expenses to be paid from House contingent fund. authorized to employ such stenographic and clerical assistance as they may deem necessary, and all expenses incurred by said special committee, including the expenses of such committee when sitting in or outside of the District of Columbia, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives on vouchers ordered by said committee, signed by the chairman of said committee: *Provided however*,*Proviso*.Amount limited.
That the total expenditures authorized by this resolution shall not exceed the sum of $5,000. Approved, March 3, 1925.