New Britain herald., 1929-10-26
PRESENT L0BBIES
 NOT VERY CORRUPT
But They Are Nearly as Power
 ful as Old Ones

Washington, Oct. 2G-The last 30 years have seen the virtual disap- pearance of the old lobby, with its badly corrupt tactics, and the rise of the new lobby, which is mostly in the employ of strongly organized national groups.
 Corporations sttll employ lobby ists. but many different types of 1obbies have entered the field and the corporations which once rcigned indisputably have often had 10 em- ploy their representatives here 10 fight federal investigation and regu- lation.
 A brief outline of some of the principal lobby fights will illustrate the diversity Of interests whose loh- bies have been most active here since 1s1t.
 American speculaiors who had bought up most of the securities of the old French Panamo canal com pany lobbied frantically to get con gress to act III their behalf before their rights expired in 1904. Although two federal commissions, acting with expert advice, had recommend cd tn Nicaragua route, congress in 1902 voted for purchase of the French company claims for $40,- c0o,O00. The lobby got full credit for passage Of the measure
 \ Defeat for the Lobby
 The Pure Food bill in 1906 brought lobbyists in droves. Head ing the opposition was the Nation- al Wholesale Liquor Dealers Asso- citation. which claimed credit for the bills defeat iii two successive ses- sions. The manufacturers of patent medicines were represented by al lobby described as tremendous" and tried to influence newspapers every where by making advertising con- tracts cancelable on passage of ad- verse patent medicine legislation.
 On the other side, the American Medical Association lobbyists brought great pressure for the bill by showing congress that 1&5,000 physicians were behind it and stir ring up patients to use their influ- ence. The A. NJ. A. won the fight by it's pressure on the senate, which had been against the measure for Y years.
 Meanwhile. the Anti Saloon League lobby was going full steam. It claimed credit for the Army Can- teen act in 1901, prohibition of liquor sales at immigration sta lions in 1903, the Soldiers Home ! Canteen Law in 1905, prohibition 1 in the Oklahoma territory in 1906, l prohibition of liquor in the mails 1 in 1908. anti-liquor code for Alaska l in 1909, recognition and participa- tion in the International Congress | Against Alcoholism in 1911, the | Webb Kenyon act in 1913 and so on 1 through wartime prohibition, the | Eighteenth Amendment and the 1 Volstead Act. Congress Was becom- | ing more and more in the Leagues l grasp.
 Uncle Joe Cannon was defying | both the League and the American | Federation of Labor, however. He | charged that in 1906 Samuel i Gompers had introduced the black | list into lobbying"
 As usual, lobbying was most in- l tense during tariff revisions. It | was revealed that when the Payne :! Aldrich bill was being concoted in l the Taft administration 60 mem- i bers of the Home Market Club of | Boston, formed to promote high ! tariffs, were at work in Washing | ton. The Hosiery Manufacturers , Association brought in 15O mem- | bers to talk to committees and in- i dividual congressman.
 The women's suffrage lobby i operated before the war with spec ! tacular tactics. Senator Jim Reed 1 of Missouri made the suffragists ] wild when he said that while every senator had a method of dealing with male lobbyist, no senator knew when tackled by female lobbyist whether to kiss her or throw her out of his office
 President Wilson let out a blast against the lobbyists who opposed his measures soon after taking office. In a subsequent investiga- ton it was found that the beet and cane sugar interests had mailed sl,5O0,o0o pieces of propaganda under government frank that the Wholesale Grocers Association" fighting for free sugar was really made up of refiners. that the Anti Trust League was affiliated with Wall Street and that the Beet Su- gar Growers Association" was still another lobby in disguise, being an organization of sugar manufactur- CTS.
 The National Association of Manufacturers Was found 10 have been fighting pro-labor legislation Of all kinds. In this and in tariff and business legislation it had played more or less secret part Tor 10 years. Colonel Martin N. Mulhall, one Of it's lobbyists. ra vealed that If had obtained control Of the House and Senate Labor and Judiciary Committees. obtained creation Of the 'ariff commission in Tafts administration to forcstall downward revision and had .iu2n. cIaliy rewarded nine former con-