Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-06-13
HIS INFLUENCE IS UNDUE
DECLARES uTTERANcEs RE-
GARDING WAGES ARE TO GRE
ATE PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
HOLDING UP APPOINTMENTS
THE soLoN SUGGESTS A CLUB is
BEING USED TO GAIN
NEEDED VOTES.

Washington, June President
Wilson's name, in connection with
White House influence for the tar
iff bill, was brought before the sen.
ate lobby investigating committee
again today by Senator GaIlinger,
who declared the presi .ent had
come 'perilously near lobbying" in
some of the things he had done in
connection with the tariff bill Mr..
Gallinger did not make direct
charge that the president had lob
bied" for the tariff bill, but the in
timations in his testimony were
taken by democratic senators to be
so broad that they subjected him to
a long cross-examination on the sub
iect of White House influence.
Senator Gallinger's statement came
as profound sensation He was
about to leave the stand when SEN
ator Reed asked a final question.
When a man says that he would
hang some one as high as Haman
if that person did not do certain
things said Senator Gallinger, 'and
that an industry which proposed re-
duction Of wages and did SO would
be investigated, think that is about
the worst kind Of influence | can
imagine
What do you think Of public of
ficial that gets up a scare about an
insidious lobby?" asked Senator Nell
son.
THAT he intends to influence pub
lie opinion and the opinion of pub
lie men," returned Senator Calm
ger.
= Would you regard it as a species
Of lobby?"
From my own inability to define
the term to my own satisfaction, per
haps l would not like to say, it was
a species Of lobby influence"
It was an intimation that men are
afraid to use their own Judgment
lest the people suspect them of lob
bving?9 persisted Senator Nelson
at SO impressed me" replied Sen
ator Gallinger.
You think then, that members OF
congress can be intimidated," asked
Chairman Overman.
4 have no disposition to criticse
public officials for cheap partisan
purposes returned Gallinger. Z
still am forced to the belfef that the
Influence used in behalf Of free sugar
or free wool or free anything else,
is as Objectionable as anything else. Z
Senator Reed tried to draw the
line between the president acung IN
behalf Of the people who elected him
and private interests conducting a
convention for selfish ends.
4 am an old fashioned person,
replied Senator Gallinger Z stfiI.
believe in the three coordinate
branches Of the government and It
grieves me to see tha executive sr-
croaching on the powers Of the Others
and attempting to influence legisla-
ton
'The sugar men were represent
ed" said Senator Reed. Don't you
think the president had a right to
use his influence29
The president has right to make
his statements in messages to con
.gress,
You don't want to charge that the
president Of the United states has
brought any kind Of coercion to bear
upon any member Of congress"
T would not undertake to do 50.
have no disposition to critisize him
unfairly
Mr. Gallinger added that he did
know that many democrats were com
planning because more offices were
not fitted and more nominations not
sent to the senate
You don't mean to intimate thai
the president IS holding up certain