The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-25
REPUBLICANS MAKE
/. EFFORT TO DELAY
IMPORTANT BILL
This Is Accusation of Sena-
tor Owen i'm Senate When
Corrupt Practice Meas
ure Is Up

| Washington. August 2A-Republican
senators were accused today by Senator
Owen, democrat, of a deliberate effort
| to prevent action before the November
election on his corrupt practice bill,
which would put strict limitations on
campaign contributions. Then the Okla
honfa senator announced that he would
make an insistent fight to bring up the
measure at this session of Congress re-
CARELESS of consequences to early adj
| journment plans.
| He declared the existing campaign con-
tributions law was a fraud upon the
| American people, charged that the So
called lumber trust had sent $4,000 into
cause he voted to deny William Lorimer
a seat in the Senate and precipitated
a lively debate in which republican and
! democratic senators bitterly accused
each other of planning to buy the APP
preaching election.
PLANS GANG AGLEE'
| All the carefully laid plans of Senate
| leaders to make possible an adjournment
| of Congress late next week were threat
ened when Senator Owen announced that
| he was ready to stay here until winter
! to pass the bill if republicans attempted
a filibuster. He said he would make a
| motion to take it up as soon as the rev.
enue bill was passed. Last week demo-
cratic leaders thought they had enough
votes to defeat such motion pledged
| from senators who desire an adjourn
mcnt. Whether Senator Owens sensa-
| tional presentation of his plea for action
has changed that situation is problem
atical. Should his motion prevail, repub-
| lican leaders say a prolonged fight will
! be made on the measure, which they in
sist is impractcable and impossible of
enforcement in its present form.
| Senator Owen made his announcement
after his request for unanimous consent
to take up the bill Immediately after
passage of the revenue bill had been OBJ
jected to by Senator Smoot. When the
| Oklahoma senator declared the so-called
lumber trust had used a $4,000 fund
i against him, Senator Penrose, republican,
interjected:
I ut is reported that it cost the demo-
cratic party 100000 to elect woodrow
| Wilson,"
How about the s2.500,00O spent to elect
William Mckinley in 1862" queried SEN
ator O,Gornan, democrat
That might have been So" Senator
Penrose replied
t HERRTCK SPENT MONEY
Resuming his speech, Senator owen
said he had figues showing that Myron
T. Herrick, recently nominated for SEN
ator by the republicans in Ohio, had
personally expended $22,175 in his pri-
mary campaign, and that the Herrick
Voters league had spent $4,000.
1T is not difficult to understand why
want this bill to pass now" said SEN
ator Stone, interrupting his democratic
colleague. THE reason is that they ex-
pect to buy the approaching national
election"
| Il have heard it stated that the DEM
ocrats are trying to buy it and that
they already have raised large fund.-
said Senator Gallinger, the republican
leader.
| 81 have heard" said Senator Penrose,
that the democrats already have an
enormous corruption fund. and that
now they want to lock the door,"
'"The people of the United States are
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