Arizona republican., 1906-09-28
THE PEOPLES LOBBY.


 New York, Sept. 27.-Success Maga-
 zine, published in this city, has under
 taken the formation of a permanent
 bureau to be maintained at Washing,
 ton during the sessions of congress, and
 to be known as the Peoples Lobby.
 A governing committee is being
 formed, which will be composed of men
 prominent in different departments of
 life. To this committee, when organ ized, the entire control and manage l Tnent of the Peoples Lobby will be fn-
 trusted. Already acceptances have been received from the following:
 It. M. Allen, secretary of the inter- state pure food commission; Samuel
 l.. Clemens C'Mark Twain'') Francis
 J. Heney. special government prose- cutor in the Oregon land fraud cases: ! Samuel McCune Lindsay, secretary of ! the national child labor committee:
 John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America; Henry Beach Needham, journalist; James B. Reynolds, joint author of the NeilI- Reynolds meat inspection report; Lin coin Steffens, associate editor of the American Magazine; Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, and William Allen White. editor of the Gazette, Emporia, Kan
 Among others who have given finan- cial and moral support to the move ment are Winston Churchill. author: Robert J. Collier of Golfers Weekly: Brand Whitlock. mayor of Toledo: ex- Governor Garvin of Rhode Island State Senator Everett Colby of New Jersey; Samuel Hopkins Adams; Seth
 Low, ex-mayor of New York city, and Governor Charles $. Deneen Of Illinois l
 The development of the idea of the Peoples Lobby comes as part of the campaign which the editors of Success Magazine have been making for a bet ] terment of legislative conditions at the national capital It is proposed to combat the attorneys for the Special interests" who appear regularly each session before the committees of con gross. by attorneys in the interest of the whole people. who shall be em- ployed by the bureau as counsel to de- termine the relative value of legisla- tiOn to the corporations and to the public.
 This Peoples Lobby. 1t Is claimed will aim to give wide publicity to ali proposed congressional acts threaten ing the best interests of the people. The organization is designed to be entirely non-p partisan. independent of concen- trated capital ad of organized labor, and established to further good meas ures and to expose and defeat mislead- | ing, special, or vicious legislation. The program as announced in the Success Magazine is as follows: I
 with the aid of competent legal counsel, the Peoples Lobby will exam inc all public bills and resolutions in- trOduced in congress: report thereon; forward such reports to the commit tees of congress- and give the same publicity through the press.
 'It will follow the work of the com mittees of the senate and house of rep I Tesentatives; scrutinize all amend ments; fix the responsibility for ..hanges made in bills for delay in con- and failure in reporting proper measures, and for the favorable report ing of questionable measures
 "It will follow the course of all bills alter their emergence from committee fixing the responsibility for delay in popular measures. or for the de,eat of the same, and also slxinty the G possibility for the advancing of vicious measures or for their enact nent into law.
 "It will keep a record of the official E acts of every senator and represent ative in such available form as to be lf immediate service to newspaper cor 'espondents and magazine writers. and To the people of any state or of any district.
 'It will be of great service to the : ,quare. honest member of congress in lis legislative work. The Peoples lobby will prepare statistics and infor- nation for the use of senators and rep to enable them more eff actively to support legislation in the public interest. and to oppose vicious measures. Hereafter. the member of congress need not rely for statistics md information, as he has had to dc n the past. on matter prepared by the ,ureaus maintained by special inter- stS. II
 "The Peoples Lobby will constitute
 national bureau of publicity, whose purpose will be to keep the people fully informed as to the official acts of their lected representatives at the nations @ apital. The organization will work . -ith and through the press associa- ions and the special newspaper cOrre- pondents at Washington, and will give i'd to periodicals and magazines which eek reliable and authoritative infor- nation as to the work of congress.
 "The Peoples Lobby is not in the re-