Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
SMITH COUNSEL URGE SENATORS
TO SEAT CLIENT IMMEDIATELY
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on appropriations bills and be pre-.
pared for adjournment March 4, to
start another debate in the Senate on
a question which already had been
acted upon.
Carlstrom Makes Request.
The request to the committee that
partial report be made forthwith
was submitted by Oscar Carlstrom,
attorney general of Illinois, and by
James NJ. Beck and c. j. Doyle of
counsel for Col. Smith, after a day OF
argument before the committee. In
a brief executive session, the commit
| tee came to no determination, and ii
was announced that the matter would
| be taken up again Wednesday.
| Attorney General Carlstrom ap
| peared before the committee on be
half of the State of Illinois, and also
as a personal friend of Col. Smith
after Mr.. Beck had argued the case
| for several hours.
II am not here as an appointed
| officer" said Mr.. Carlstrom. I'm
| Illinois the attorney general is elected
1t seems to me that this question
| before the committee transcends any
| question of partisan politics. The
| State of Illinois, third in the Union
| in point Of population, wealth and
taxation, is asking that Col. Smith
| be seated and that the State be &C
| corded its full right of representation
/ in the Senate. Illinois is entitled tc
ask that its representative be seated
| Mr.. Carlstrom declared that In
| America man is held innocent until
proved guilty. He insisted that nc
/ fnC Cnl
| Smith and that no direct charges were
before the Senate or the committee.
With reference to a charge that q
| senatorial nomination had been pur
| chased in Illinois, Mr.. Carlstrom said
| that the late Senator Mckinley had
expended 100000 more in his cam.
paign than was expended for Smith
II the election had been bought, he
said, it would have gone to the high
est bidder He called attention to the
| fact that in a State where more than
| $4,000 to send one single letter to
all of the voters. Col. Smiths cam
| paign fund was $3.50, 1000.
II the facts in the case are to be
investigated, Mr.. Carlstrom said, he
| would ask the committee to go into
| 1t fully, asserting that he had some
| information to impart.
Cites Utilities Cuts.
| IF l thought there was moral tur
pitude in any action of Col. Smith ]
would not speak for him here as ]
| do, said Mr.. Carlstrom. He insisted
that there was no improperly in the
contributions made to Smiths cam
paign fund by Samuel insult, public
utility magnate, and by Studebaker
and Ira Copley, who are also interest
ed in public utilities, Notwithstanding
the fact that Col. Smith was head OF
| the Commerce Commission of Illinois
at the. time. During the five years
that Col. Smith was chairman of that
commission, he said, reduction in the
rates of public utilities had brought
about $4,000, 900 reduction In the cost
| of the service to the people and $40.
600. 900 Of that was in the cost of serv.
| ice to concerns in which insult was
| interested. He said that after the Re.
publican senatorial primary had been
held the Commerce Commission re
duced the rates of gas furnished by
| insult concerns in Chicago and that
| the lower rates went into effect then
| Referring to the fact that the PEG.
| pie Of Illinois had elected Col. Smith
to the Senate after the Reed commit