The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-19
WANT PUBLICITY.
Senate Passes BiN to Pub.
liSh Election Expenses.
Senator Reed of Missouri Offers an
Amendment to Limit Candidates
Expenses to Ten Cents a Vote.
Measure Goes to Conference.

Washington. July 1S-The senate
amended and passed the bill providing
for publicity of contributions to and
expenses in political campaigns. The
bill in its present form provides for
publicity not only before and after
elections, but in the case of primary
as well as general elections. 1t APP
plies both to candidates for the Unit
ed States senate and nominees for the
house of representatives.
The bill has been passed by the
house and will now go to cunfeYent e.
The present publicity luv provides
only for. II statement ut expenditures
after electiOa,s aud doNS not arpiy 10
candidates for the Sen,.tc
Senator Lodge was reS,inl s!h q fer
bringing the bill up. I .lt senate WAS
proceeding with TIE ,;l.euti"r n the
course of the usual business WhAu tAt
publicity bill was reached. senator
Burton asked that the bin 80 oyer.
pointing out that Senator Dillingham;.
chairman of the committee ~ lnivi-
leges and alerticnS. was absent hTt
Senator Lodge insisted on ct on and
finally made motion to proceed to
the consideration of the bill which
prevailed. The consideration of the
measure occupied more than six
hours Senator Sutherland of Utah
took charge of the bill in the absence
of Chairman Dillingham; and led the
fight for it. The only roll call vote
was on the amendments made by the
senate in the bill as it came from the
house. These amendments were adopt
ed by the decisive vote of so to Z.
The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Republicans: Borah. Bourne.
Bradley, Brandegee, Bristow, Brown,
Burnham, Burton, Clapp, Clark (Wyo),
Crawford, Cullom, Cummins, Dilling,
ham, Dixon, Gamble, Hepburn, La
Toilette. Lippitt, Lodge, Mclean, Mel
son, Oliver, Page. Perkins, Root
Smith (Mich.), Smoot. Sutherland
Townsend, Warren, Wetmore and
Works-33. Democrats: Chamberlain
Chiffon, Foster, Gore, Hitchcock, John
son, Kern, Martin, MARITIME, Myers
Owen, Pomerene, Reed, Shively, Sim
mons, Swanson and Thornton-17 To
tai, 80.
Nays-Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead, Bry-
an, Johnston, Overman and Taylor
The house bill was materially
amended by the senate. One of the
amendments adopted extends the law
to cover the full publicity contribu
tions and expenses at primary elec
tions as well as general elections ant
for publicity before and after elec
tions. This amendment was draw
up by a subcommittee composed O
Senators Kern and Kenyon after ;
very full discussion in the full com
mittee on privileges and elections.
An amendment offered by Senate
Reed of Missouri, which was accepted
by Senator Sutherland, in charge o
the bill, aroused much Interest /
seeks to put q limitation on tn
amount of money that any candidat
for senator or representative may e1
pend and In other ways broadens tn
scope of the bill. The Reed amend
ment enacts that the total amount o
money expended by any candidate t
influence an election shall not excee
10 cents for each voter and that b
, shall not be permitted to expend
sum in excess Of what is lawfully a
lowed by the legislature Of the stat
in which he is a candidate, that
candidate for United States senate
I shall not contribute any money In al
of the election Of a member OF tn
legislature of his own state and tha
In no event shall candidate for tn
United States senate expend NOR
than $4,000 or a candidate for tn
house more than 5000 to influence hi
election.