Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
HUSTON HITS BACK
! AT LOBBY PROBERS
G. o. P. Committee Head Re.
/ Sents Insinuations Made
Before Investigators.

Chairman C. H. Huston of the Re-
publican national committee, In Q state
ment made public today, hit back at
the Senate lobby committee upon whose
authority, he declared, his name has
been Systematically banded around"
as one who should be called before It
to explain his activities as president Of
the Tennessee River Improvement AS
ISOLATION in its relation to Muscle
Shoals.
Declaring he had no apologies to
make for representing at one time the
interests of his State, Mr.. Huston ex-
planned that upon his election as chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee he had resigned all connections
with the association and its activities
which he had served many years.
at resent" he said, "the attempts to
connect the Craftsmanship of the Re-
publican national committee with q
local, non-partisan question" Folitt-
cal opponents of the Republican leader
have been resorting to the power trust
issue in an evident attempt to force
him from the committee Craftsmanship.
Quotes Committee Members.
Referring to statements by members
of the Senate lobby committee, Mr..
Huston said:
"This committee has had time to
hear numerous witnesses, some of them
stenographers and other employees OF
the association. While I have been
here available for appearance before
the committee at any time, the COM
mittee apparently has been unwilling
that I should appear. It has agreed
to hear me next Tuesday, but only upon
my repeated demands made through
my friends.
I'm view of the Misrepresentation
that are current, ] think It is desirable
to clarity this situation now.
1.-THE Tennessee River Improvement
Association IS an association Of leading
citizens and organizations throughout
the Tennessee Valley for the promotion
and upbuilding Of industry and COM
merce in that section. Its officers and
supporters have comprised such men
as the late Senator Lawrence Tyson of
Tennessee, Senator William Z. Brock Of
Tennessee, and many others. The late
Senator Tyson was for years its vice
president. was for many years its
president.
Interested in River Improvement.
''The association has interested itself
for 80 years in Improvement Of navi-
cation on the Tennessee River and in
development of industry in the valley.
Ai.long other activities Of the associa-
ton in later years was the support Of
the development Of Muscle Shoals. The
association has been solely interested in
It from the point Of view of the upbuild-
ing of employment and industry in the
valley and has supported the various
proposals which have come before Con-
greSS which would affect industrial de-
velopment of that territory. It support
"a the offer of Henry Ford because Of
the large manufacturing possibilities
which that offer implied. It has vigor-
oril- supported the proposed lease to
the American Cyanamid Co. for exactly
the same reasons. Neither I nor the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa-
ton has one dollar of pecuniary interest
In any of these proposals.
Severed Connection with Group.
upon my election as chairman OF
the Republican national committee
resigned all connection with the asso-
citation and shortly thereafter I stated
to Senators Mcclellan and Brock of Ten
nesSee that my activities in connection
with the Tennessee River Association
and the Muscle Shoals problem would
necessarily cease and that felt the re-
Sponsibility for the interests Of the
Tennessee Valley and the future guild
arce of those things for which the asso-
citation had stood must largely rest with
the Senators and Representatives in
Congress from the States concerned. /
subsequently made 81 bStantially the
same statements to Senators Helm and
Black Of Alaban- at a casual meeting
with them.
II make no apologies for representing
the interests of my State"