New Britain herald., 1929-10-26
CREDIT REPORTER WITH LOBBY EXPOSE
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ram Bingham of Connecticut espe- cially was not suspected. The in cident was soon more or less for gotten, and the positive identity of the committee member to whom Ccuzens referred is not known 10 this day.
 Prior 10 that newspapers inau- gurated campaign to force the senate 10 investigate the activities of lobbyists in the capital, and among the correspondents assigned to ferret out facts to be used in this campaign was John A. Ken, edy. Kennedy received 6 tip, tn, source of which he has never di- vulged that q mysterious" person was attending the scrct meetings with Senator Bingham--a someone nobody around the senate office building knew. Tho senator eX- plaincd to Kennedy, that the man was tariff expert who was assist ing him, but his name or identity l he refused to reveal. Kennedy queried the disbursing office of the senate, after he found the mystery man was on the payroll of the sen ate, but the disbursing office told | him that personnel Of the payroll was made public only in the annual report of the secretary of the sen ate, and that would not be made | for some time
 Eyanson's Identity Learned T0HNnln n lg. ,1n |, :, too interesting for Kennedy to abandon the chase, and he contin- ! ued. His efforts at this point be- come obscure but when he came 70 | the surface again, he knew C. l.. | Eyanson, was the man with Bing- ham, and that Eyanson was assist ant to the president of the Connec- ticut Manufacturers association Thcrcupon Mr. Kennedy took a trip to Hartford, and at the office of the association he was told by the of- flee girls that Mr. Eyanson was in Washington handling the tariff fight for us down there"
 Eyanson, short time later fin- ished his work with Senator Bing- ham and returned to Hartford. Kennedy followed him there and called to see him. It is apparent, of course, that Eyanson did not know the purpose of Kennedy's s visit because he talked with him over an hour. during which time he discussed the entire affair. even showing Kennedy speeches he wds preparing for the Use Of Bingham during the debates on the various Connecticut schedules in the sen atc.
 Kennedy inquired if he knew Jos eph R. Boss" Grundy, the lobby king, and Eyanson volunteered the information that Joe" had called him by phone from Washington d short time before the reporter ar lived. relative to his returning to Washington to continue in the tar If fight. Grundy is president of tn, Pennsylvania Manufacturers asso- ciation and one of the leading Washington lobbyists.
 There was another trip to Hart 1 ford, and the matter of ironing out q few more details. before Kennedy approached Bingham with the in formation he had, telling Bingham he was going to publish it, the fol- lowing morning. and asking him TOT an explanation. Bingham's eX- planatlon is well known-Eyansor was loaned him to help in the mat, ter of coaching Bingham on tariffs so that Connecticut would get tar if rate desired, and that Eyanson was "on leave of absence from the manufacturers association"
 First News Sept. 25
 The following morning, Septem Der 25, newspapers carried an ex. elusive story to the effect tha, Bingham had placed an employe ot the Connecticut Manufacturers as. sociation on the payroll of the gov. ernment and took him into the SC cret meetings of the senate commit. tee on finance.
 Bingham was attacked in severl speeches or the floor of the senate the investigation was authorized the committee convened and Bing. ham, the first witness admitted h, should not have done what he did but maintained it was not unethical
 This same Kennedy, although bu
 % years old, is the reporter who cx posed the Veterans Bureau fraud O
 1923, which sent the director F Charles R. Forbes to prison. After Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines sue. ceeded Forbes, Kennedy marrief his daughter although he tough against the appointment of the gen | eral to the position.
 l He also had a hjg hand i, th,