Evening star., 1929-12-12
GRUNDY PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS FOR
SEAT DENIED WARE
Reading Brings Nye ReSoIu-
tion to Reject New Appointee
From Pennsylvania.
NORTH DAKOTA SENATOR
MAKES CLEAR HIS STAND
Charges Keystone State Primary
in 1926 Was "an
Auction Sale"
BY C. GOULD LINCOLN.

Joseph R. Grundy, appointed to the
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
Senate's rejection of William S. Ware of
Pennsylvania, appeared in the Senate
chamber with his credentials soon after
1:30 pm. today.
Great interest in the appearance of
Mr.. Grundy was shown by the crowded
galleries and by the large number of
members of the House, who had come
to the Senate chamber in anticipation
of the event.
Senator David A Reed, senior Sen
ator from Pennsylvania, presented the
credentials of Mr.. Grundy, signed by
Gov. John S. Fisher. No sooner had
they been read than Senator Nye of
North Dakota offered resolution deny
ing a seat in the Senate to Mr.. Grundy
on the ground that both Gov. Fisher
and Mr.. Grundy had participated in
the 1926 primary in Pennsylvania at
which Ware had been nominated and
that the Mellon Fisher Pepper -Grundy
organization had expended three times
the amount of money in that primary
campaign as was expended by Ware and
his organization.
Makes Position Clear.
Senator Nye admitted that Mr.. Grun-
dy would be seated. He said, however,
that he wished to make his own posi-
ton clear, and since he had voted not
to seat Ware he could not vote to seat
Grundy. He declared that in seating
Grundy the Senate would be awarding
a Senate seat to the highest bidder"
"I do not see how the Senate can
accept the appointment made by Two
million dollar Fisher to Half-a-million-
dollar Grundy after denying the seat to
Half-a-million- dollar Vare," said Sena-
tor Nye.
Instead of an election in Pennsyl-
vania the primary in 1926 was an auc-
ton sale" continued Senator Nye. 'The
Senate is now going to reward the
machine which spent money more law
ishly than did the Ware machine"
Senator Nye said that he was not
lawyer, but that the legal minds in
the Senate were justifying the seating
of Grundy by the splitting Of hairs.
"The Arch Lobbyist"
Senator Cutting of New Mexico, an.
other Western Republican, obtaining
the floor when Senator Nye completed
his remarks, characterized Grundy as
1.-The arch-lobbyist." He said that in
a few moments the oath of office would
BE- administered to Mr.. Grundy, and
that thereafter members of the Senate
would serve on committees with him
and dine at the same tables.
Many of us will succumb to his un-
doubted personal charms" said Sen
ator Cutting. Under the rules of the
Senate none of us will thereafter be
permitted to cast any reflections upon
him"
Senator Cutting declared that Grundy
recently before the Senate lobby COM
mttaa had demonstrated his ignorance
Of what the United States really stands
for and had boasted that ne had been
engaged in raising campaign contribu-
tions from interests with the implied
promise that those interests would get
back their money.
"All he has" said Senator Cutting,
ais a certificate from the alleged Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. Why should
the Senate deny a seat to Ware and
grant one to Grundy?"
Called king of Lobbyists"
Mr.. Grundy entered the Senate in the
midst of the consideration of the tariff
bill. Only a day or two ago the Sem
ate lobby committee, through its chair
man, Senator Caraway of Arkansas,
submitted a special report dealing with
Mr.. Grundy'S activities as a lobbyist on
tariff matters and picturing him as
"king of lobbyists" The report severely
criticized Mr.. Grundy for his activities
in Pennsylvania politics and as lob
byist here in Washington.
Text of Nye Resolution.
The resolution which Senator Nye
will offer to deny Mr.. Grundy seat
in the Senate follows:
Whereas, on the 9Th day of Decem-
Der, 1929, the Senate denied a seat IN
the United States Senate to William S.
Ware of Pennsylvania, by direct vote,
by Senate resolution Ill and
Whereas, said Senate resolution,
which declared the ground upon which
the Senate denied the said Ware seat
in the United States Senate, declared
that a Senate investigation led to f1nd-
ing that evidence without substantial
dispute, showing that at the primary
election at which William S. Ware was
ALLEGED to have been nominated as a
candidate for the United States Senate,
there was spent in behalf OF the salo
Ware in said primary election by the
said Ware and his friends, sum OF
money exceeding $785, 900; and,
Whereas, it was the expenditure OF
this excessive amount of money and the
matter of it's expenditure which caused
the Senate to deny seat in the united
States Senate to the said Ware; and
Whereas, the Governor of the State OF
PENNSYLVANIA, John S. Fisher, notified
of the vacancy in the United States
Senate occasioned by the denial of g
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