The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-07-11
INTERVIEW BY VICE
PRES|DEN! MARSHALL
CONCERNING lO9BKS
SAYS BUSINESS MEN NEED PAID
REPRESENTATIVES, NEAR
CONGRESS.
MAY Spend MONEY WRONG
Shows That Prosperity Hinges Too
Much on Legislation and Thinks
Congress Should Be Forgot for Ten
Years-Effect of Probe and Tariff.

PHILADELPHIA, July 7.-vice
President Marsh in a remarkable !
interview, declared here today that
the American business man is justi- |
fed in maintaining special paid rep
resentatives at Washington for the
purpose of watching legislation He
also asserted that the American bust
ness men SHOULD forget congress for
the next ten years.
He said that in this he had the
same idea as James J. Hill. who said
recently that the best thing for Amer
ical business men would be to abolish
congress for ten years. The lobby
Investigation Is being conducted by a
committee of the senate, of which
the Vice President is the presiding
officer but he says that "as Ameri
can business is being run at present,
the business man is bound to spend
money and to have representative
near the capital"
II am not saying whether this mon
ey is spent honestly or not" said Mr..
Marshall. BUT he stated that there
is such thing as legitimate expendi-
ture of money for lobbying.
when business is in state of
mind where ii regards congress as
the ceature tnat opens and closes it's
doors every day" he continued, you
are going to have money spent
around the capitol. The big business
men are going to have their repre-
sentatives in Washington.
81 think the great principle of the
lobby investigation of the senate COM
mittee is to clear the air and prove
that it is not necessary to depend on
congress for business prosperity
Il am net commenting on any men
involved in the probe. 1t would not
be fitting, bu. | will say that the
spending of money about the capitol
by the mel who stand for big bust
ness is only the natural outgrowth
of the business mans attitude.
ut is to be expect ed that business
men will spend big sums when they
think their interests are SO closely
wrapped up in legislation. These
sums may be spent properly and they
may not. The principle is that they
are bound to be spent; and that is a
part of the business system as con,
Quoted under the present ideas of the
American business men that they b =
lspent
] THE American business man ought
to forget the lawmakers. He Goes
not need TO depend on this law or
that. It only hurts him as a success
full producer.
THE lobby will end naturally when
the business man stands on his own
feet and is ready to give and take
with the whole world
There is 10 need for alarm in re.
gard to orr business. Markets be-
ing opened in South and Central
America will give us enough ai to
keep every factory running twenty
four hours cay, six days in a week.
I, "The lobby investigation and the
new tariff aro simply going to force
the American business man to show
what he really can do and to get rid
Of the idea trat his business depends
on congress.
! I do not think we shall ever have
free trade. My idea is that we shall
reach the level of the Walker tariff,
in force before the civil war, in which
the duties were on a basis Of 20 per
cent ad valorem. This much tariff
is necessary for revenue"