The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-04-21
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CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
Before ELECTION.
REPORTS EVERY 3 DAYS
Fight 10 Over Amendment Hitting Can.
d'datss Tor Con- ..s.-lt 10
Adopted, but Democrats
Later Cut Il Out.

washington, D. C. .-. The Demo
cratic party has met its. first seriou.
trouble in the house Of representa-
tfves. At the close Of a session mark
ed by insurgency in the Democratic
ranks. BY reason Of which the Re
publicans narrowly missed scoring q
triumph. the house passed the Rucke,
bill for publicity of campaign contri
buttons before election.
The fight arose over the extent t.
which publicity should be applied
But for the vigorous and continued
use of the Democratic party whip an
important Republican amendment ex
tending publicity to the individual re
Tceipts and expenses of candidates 70,
congress. would have been retained in
the bill when it finally passed.
AS it was, the amendment was
adopted over the protest of the Demo
cratic leaders by the support Of So OF
the Democrats, who voted with the
solid Republican strength. Resort te
parliamentary move enabled the
Democrats later to get; rid Of the
amendment; but % Of their: number
refused to change their attitude and
stuck with the Republicans in oppos.
ing the Democratic majority.
The Rucker bill passed finally by
a unanimous vote, but only after q
stormy scene. The amendment of.
fered by Representative Jackson, a
new Republican member from Kansas,
required all candidates for congress to
file statements of the source and use
Of their individual campaign funds in
both the primary and general cleo.
lions.
Amendment Adopted.
The amendment met instant support
from the Republican side and encoun-
tered the opposition of the Democratic
leaders. Mr.. Rucker of Missouri,
chairman of the committee in charge
of the bill, asserted that it would so
change the form of the law that 1t
might endanger it's final passage.
The Democrats who stood out
against the efforts of party leaders to
dispose of the Jackson amendment
were: Akin and George, New York;
Alexander and Borland, Missouri; Bu-
chanan and Stone, Illinois; Buckley,
Sherwood and Whitacre, Ohio; Burke
and Konop, Wisconsin; Cox and Gray,
Indiana; Dupre, Estopinal, Pujo, Rams
dell and Wyckliffe, Louisiana; Good.
win, Arkansas; Hamill. Townsend and
futile, New Jersey; Hardy, Texas;
Pepper, Iowa; Baker. California;
Sweet, Michigan; Thayer, Massachu.
sets, and Wilson. Pa.
The bill, as finally passed, makes
more stringent the campaign publicity
law passed in 1910. That law requires
publicity of funds after election. The
Rucker amendment will require public
ity of funds by the campaign commit
tees tel days previous to election, and
the filing of supplemental statements
every three days thereafter until cleo
ton day.
The bill limited publicity of cam
paign expenditures to sums of 500 or
over, but Mr.. Rucker accepted an
amendment of Mr.. Konop, Republican,
of Wisconsin, requiring the publicity
Of all payments in sums of $40 or over
for campaign purposes. Through the
debate Perry Belmont, president of the
National Publicity Law association and
a former member of the house, occu-
pied a seat on the floor.