You are in the habit of drafting my opinion on public questions. For once I am going to volunteer one.

In my opinion the Senatorial Inquisition of the War Department is directly responsible for the sinking of the Tuscania. They put Baker on the rack and tortured out of him a confession of the gigantic movement of our troops across the seas. Then the enemy knew what was happening and the submarines lurked for their prey.

This whole Inquisition is bottomed on the inordinate vanity of a few senators who seek to pose as the saviours of the Nation. Their bill has no more chance to keep out of the Congressional trash pile than a food grafter has to keep out of hell. And they know it. And yet the Inquisition continues. Why?.