Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-21
Republican Leader Is Said
to Have Solicited Funds to
Influence Muscle Shoals
Legislation.
DEMOCRATIC CHIEFS.
WET EFFORTS Barred
Robinson, Submitting Account of
Activities of Association Against
Eighteenth Amendment Also
Charges du Points Aided Move.

Chairman Claudius Huston of
the Republican national commit
tee and Chairman John j. Raskob
OF the Democratic national COM
mittee were the subjects of re-
ports made to the Senate today
from the lobby investigating COM
mittee.
Huston was dealt with in a re-
port on lobbying in connection
with Muscle Shoals. The report.
submitted by Senator Caraway of
Arkansas, Democrat, chairman of
the lobby committee, recited the
efforts of Mr.. Huston, when presi-
dent of the Tennessee River I'M
provement Association, to inf1u-
ence legislation in regard to
Muscle Shoals development.
Raskob was charged with aiding the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment in lobbying for the wet
cause. Senator Robinson of Indiana,
an ardent dry and Republican, sub
mitted the report dealing with Raskob.
Fund Solicitation Charged.
The report on Huston went into the
solicitation of funds by Huston from
the Union Carbide Co. to be used in
lobbying for the Muscle Shoals legisIa-
ton and the use of these funds in stock
market dealings. Tt made no comment
on the incident, but merely laid the
facts as disclosed by the investigation
before the Senate.
Senator Robinson in his report on
the activities of the wet organizations,
which was characterized as partial
report. declared that Mr. Raskob had
had IAN important part" in all the
activities of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment and that few,
If any, of the methods of lobbying were
neglected by that organization.
After declaring that the Tennessee
River improvement Association had been
active in carrying on propaganda in
ton, while headed by Mr.. Huston and
Col. j. w. Worthington, the report On
Huston continues:
Asked for Salary Payments.
Col. Worthington was supposed to be
entitled to a salary of $4,000 year,
payable monthly, but in more recent
years, at least, his stipend came with no
regularity, and according to such of his
correspondence as came into the hands
of the committee he was frequently in
desperate straits financially. During
the Summer of 1929 he wrote repeatedly
to Huston and wired him asking for re-
mittances to meet obligations upon
which he was pressed for payment, in
response to which Huston made remit
tances to him from time to time, having
funds provided by the Union Carbide
Co. to the amount of $685. This
amount was turned over to Huston. on
his solicitation, $4,000 on March 2,
1929, and 81, 100 on June 26, 1929. The
amount thus contributed was to be used
In carrying on the work of the Tennes-
see River Improvement Association and
represented, as told by Huston, the sum
expended by the association in assem-
bling data shown thereby and in the
preparation of maps in the possession of
the association. supposed to be of value
to the Union Carbide Co., which maps
he asserted were sold to that company
THE contributions of the Union Car
bide Co. were made by check of its
president, one Haggerson, to one Moore.
a business associate and confidant of
Huston, and by Moore deposited to the
credit, in each instance, of an account
In his name with the stock brokerage
firm OF Blyth 81 Bonner of New York
City, a trading account. These &C
counts though carried in the name of
Moore. were in reality accounts of Hus-
ton, representing dealings on margin
in stocks and other securities. The
$4,000 payment went to the credit of
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