Evening star., 1929-11-15
CARAWAY ASKS j. s.
TO OHATELOBBY|STS.
Senator Draws on Testimony
at Inquiry in Radio
Forum Speech.

Senator T. H. Caraway Of Arkansas,
chairman of the Senate subcommittee
investigating lobbying, declared in a
radio address last evening that the COM
mittee's extended inquiry will be bar
rem of results If the American people
shall not learn to hate lobbying and
lobbyists"
Drawing literally on testimony wit
neSSeS have given the committee in the
last three weeks, Senator Caraway de-
livered a scathing denunciation of those
he described as seeking to control gov
ernment" The Arkansas Senator spoke
in the National Radio Forum, arranged
by The Star and sponsored by the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System, which
was broadcast locally from station
WMAL.
The question, Can lobbying be justi-
fed? was answered by Senator Caraway
with an emphatic no. Each lobbyist and
each agency that contributes money to
lobbyist seeks to control government,
he asserted, "and each consciously
thereby deprives the unorganized mass
of its equal opportunity before the law.
Hopes Public will Sec.
at has been the hope of the chair
man of the committee now inquiring
into lobbying that the committee might
give the public croSS-Section of that
institution" he said, that those who
have contributed might behold the in
StrumentalitieS which they had en-
ployed, and likewise the company with
which they had associated themselves.
II am not unmindful," he said, "that
ANose who believe that their efforts have
Or Will result In public good may be
offended If they are sought to be brack-
eted with such men as Burgess, Grundy,
Arnold and the like, and am glad to
declare that as far as their motives are
concerned there is no kinship, but each
Snds himself engaged in the same ef-
fort-that is, to influence the action of
Government and have it accept his view
and travel the course he marks out.
Each is accomplishing the same result
the destruction of confidence of the
public in the integrity of Government"
Senator Caraway referred to William
H. Burgess Of the United States Pottery
Association; Joseph r. Grundy, preSi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania Manufac-
turerS' Association, and j. A. Arnold,
manager of the Southern Tariff Asso-
ciation and related organizations. Each
has been q witness before the commit
tee. Senator Caraway denounced their
activities vigorously.
Divided Into Four Glasses.
There are lobbyists and propagandiSts,
he said. For convenience sake" he
considered them as belonging to four
classes. "The first includes those who
seek by direct contact to control either
the legislative or executive branch of
Government, or both, for their own
profit. In this class he put the Con-
necticut Manufacturers Association.
The second group, he said, repre-
serlts organized effort, seeking by both
direct contact and propaganda the
same end-advantage for their group"
The third group brings together those
who seek to control Government ny
financing political campaigns" he said.
They aim to write party platforms.
They collect vast sums from special in
terestS to corrupt elections. Naturally
in that group, and speaking for it, you
will find men like Joseph r. Grundy."
Senator Caraway described the fourth
group as "the most deSpicable of all,
the lobbyists who are the willing tools
Of any who will pay. They represent
only organized greed" he declared.
Calls Lobbyists Parasites.
"The great majority OF lobbyists
and ther are four and half pages 'in
the telephone directory Of Washington
take UP with their hstings-are para
SITES" he asserted. "They have no ac-
qnaintance with men in public life.
They seek to exercise no influence. They
gather in the widows mite and the
ichildren's pennies and appropriate
them to their own use. In return they