Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-18
Friends of Direct Legisla-
 tive Methods Fighting Penrose and Sullivan.
SENATE ASKED TO ACT
Norris of Nebraska Introduces ReSOlu. ton for Inquiry Into Campaigns in Illinois and Penn.
 sylyania.
lBy Sidney Espey(

Washington, Oct 11.-Shoud the use of large sums of money to pro-
 mote political a~>5itions be stopped?
 How much should the law allow the for United States santor for example, to spend in his primary and final
 campaigns? If it was wrong for
 G"Uncle Ike" Stevenson 10 let go
 $107O in his last canvass for the
 toga in Wisconsin, how much should
 Boise Penrose in Pennsylvania and
 Roger Sullivan in Illinois be given
 for paying out?
 These are some of the questions Of
 the new political ethics involved in
 the resolution introduced by Senator
 Norris of Nebraska, calling for a senate coenmittee inquiry into the ex- penditures of senatorial candidates n
 Pennsylvania and Illinois.
 Everyone in the senate knew, with Out explanation by Norris, who was
 aimed at in his resolution. Senator
 Stcne of Missouri, who had not heard
 the text read, rose moment later to
 protest against an attack being
 mace on MT. Sullivan and Mir. Pe"
 rose. He withdrew it when he dis
 covered that no candidate was men-
 toned by name in the call for in-
 vestigation.
 Senator Norris resolution has rot
 gotten into the upper house by ac, l.
 cident. It is tine result of an agita-
 tion " the National Popular govern
 ment league to obstruct the cah-
 paigns of two of the most notable
 enemies of direct legislative methods ill the country. The league is main-
 tained for the promotion of direct legislative methods-the initiative, the
 referendum and the recall, with inn proved corrupt practices acts-and it
 has taken the position thaS Sullivan
 and 'Penrose are corrupting the elect
 crate by the wholesale use of money Administration Behind Fight. We calculate, from information thus far furnished us, that at least 1 $2OO,0O0 to $250,000. has been spent thus far on behalf of Roger Sulli- vans nomination and election, by himself and his agents" declared Jud- son King, executive secretary of the league. "We are informed that one printing house in Chicago has filled a scontract for $10O,000 worth of printing for the Sullivan campaign; that the posters placed in Chicago alone cost his campaign fund at least SIG, 1000; that he made very eXpens- i've automobile trip around the state, lasting sixteen weeks, in the course of which four towns reported that at almost every one of their saloon bars his agents tossed out $5 bills to buy drinks for the house. We belieYe that all these things enter into the cOrrup- tion of the judgment of the voters, and we want to see whether the American public approves this means
 of choosing it's legislators"
 Senator Norris is one of the leaders in the work Of the Popular Govern
 men league, of which Senator Owen
 of Oklahoma is president and Chief
 Counsel Folk of the interestate com-
 merce commission is another prom inent member. The fact that the Sul-
 livan candidacy has been attacked so directly by men close to the admin istration indicates the extent to which administration resentment against Sullivan has gone.
 There appears small chance that the resolution will be reported out at this seIe41H however. Senator Kern
 as chirman uf Ane privileges and election committee, to which it has been referred, is anxious for party harmony. He knows that if the reso- lution is allowed to rest quietly in committee until the short session be- l gins, there will be started at that time a new fight gainst the prospec- tive seating of Sullivan or of Penrose,
 in the event of their election. He will
 probably prefer that the complaints be aired after the full party vote shall have been cast at the November election, and not in time to cause