Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-07
says Wilson IS
BIGGEST LOBBYIST
SENATOR TOWNSEND GIVES COM.
MITTEE MS IDEAS OF
LOBBY.
ADNINISTR ton Influence
Tie Declares 10 BE the Biggest Factor
Jscd 10 COcrCc senators in NOt-
Ing ON 1arin cMasurc.

WASHINGTON, June 6.--An unex-
pected turn was given the senatorial
lobby investigating committee today
when senator Townsend Of Michigan,
republican, on the stand said that the
Influence welded by the democratic
administration upon the making OF
the tariff bill constituted the nearest
approach 10 undue influence upon
members Of congress that the investi-
eating committee would be able to
find"
Senator Townsend criticised the
committee for not having asked mem
bcrs OF the senate whetheE the prcsi-
dent had sought 10 Influence them
aud declared that even though the
President had not intended it, his in
support of the changes in the tariff
would influence senators to vote
against the amendments they knew to
be just
"Who are those senators 2" demand
90 Senator Reed.
IL don't care to name any one"
returned Senator Townsend.
D,mocr,ts He.cn,cd IT.
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committee present Reed and Walsh,
resented any intimation that Presi-
dent Wilson had used patronage or
,hr,,,s 10 fo,,o o,,,, or. 60 sunnort
free sugar or free wool, or to support
the bill as a whole. Senator Town
send insisted the committee had not
asked any senator thus far whether
the president had tried to influence
HIM.
Il move" Interrupted Senator
Walsh that in view Of the serious
statements made touching the execu-
tive. that any senator who has already
testified may be recalled and interro-
gated in reference therefore.
"T am for that" said Senator Nelson
and every member OF the committee
agreed
Dragging President Wilson's tariff
activity into the investigation some
what intensified feeling i'm the COM
nittGe and it Is expected 1t will make
more searching the investigation to be
carried on. Senator Weeks of Massa-
chusetts. following Senator Townsend
an the stand. EXPRESSED the opinion
that executives had more influence
ON bills than all the persons who have
come TO washington, put together"
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saat ,,n,n sona+ors Tho nuh,ic he
lieves a lobbyist is a bad man and no
senator is to oppose measure il the
president saws the lobbyists are seek
ING TO change IT,"
The senate agreed early in the af-
ternoon to extend the time for the
lobby investigation until June 2s.
Members of the committee doubt
vhetber Il can be completed within
that time The new element injected
into II today probablv will carry the
questioning of senators over into next
veok Features Of the socalled lobby
on sugar. wool and metals and liquor,
labor and other legislation must then
he taken up as the second stage OF the
investigation.
Senator Townsend's statement In
relation TO President Wilson were not
I'm the form of charges. He expressly |
said he did not charge the President |
with using improper methods. but In
sisted that charges existed, and the |
at,itudc of tho President amounted to |
can undue influence. even II he did |
nat 1850 the bir stick of patronage"
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