Governor Foss of Massachusetts on April 21 signed the bill recently
passed by the state legislature, providing for the appointment of a
commission of five persons, one of whom will be a woman, for the
investigation of commercialized vice in Massachusetts. Witnesses, papers
and documents may be summoned, and oaths given. The bill creating this
commission was the first measure reported out by the Committee on Social
Welfare.
Massachusetts is believed to be the first state to institute a formal
state-wide investigation by commission of prostitution in all its
phases.