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Chap. 344: Providing for an investigation of Francis A. Winslow, United States district judge for the southern district of New York. Chapter 344 45 Stat. 1325 1929-02-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 344.— Joint Resolution Providing for an investigation of Francis A.
Winslow, United States district judge for the southern district of New York. February 26, 1929.[[H. J. Res. 425](/us/bill/70/hjres/425).][[Pub. Res., No. 93](/us/bill/70/pubres/93).] Whereas certain statements against Francis A. Winslow, United Judge Francis A. Winslow.Preamble.States district judge for the southern district of New York, have been transmitted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Judiciary Committee: Therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Leonidas C.
Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee of House of Representatives to inquire into official conduct of.Dyer, Charles A. Christopherson, Andrew J. Hickey, George R. Stobbs, Hatton W. Sumners, Andrew J. Montague, and Fred H. Dominick, being a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to inquire into the official conduct of Francis A. Winslow, United States district judge for the southern district of New York, and to report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House Report whether believed to be guilty of acts of high crimes, etc.whether in their opinion the said Francis A.
Winslow has been guilty of any acts which in contemplation of the Constitution are high crimes or misdemeanors requiring the interposition of the constitutional powers of the House; and that the said special committee Powers of 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 administer the customary oaths to witnesses, all 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 the Seventieth Congrgess and thereafter until said inquiry is completed, and report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of the Seventy-first Congress.
Sec. 2. That said special committee be, and the same is hereby, Employment of stenographic, etc., assistance.authorized to employ such stenographic, clerical, and other 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 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,* That the total expenditures authorized by this *Proviso.*Limit of expenditures.resolution shall not exceed the sum of $5,000.
Approved, February 26, 1929.