Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
Senator, Back in Capital,
Says Committee to Meet
in Chicago Monday.
EXPECTS TO END WORK
IN ILLINOIS NEXT WEEK
Probe to Be Carried to Nebraska,
Massachusetts and Colo
RADIO Later.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Senatorial Campaign Investigate
ing Committee is to meet Monday in
Chicago to go further into charges of
excessive expenditures In the Illinois
primary. n,
Senator Nye of North Dakota, chair
man of the committee, who has Just
returned to Washington, said today
that he expected every member of the
committee to attend the meeting in
Chicago next week. The chairman IS
sued strong denial of charges made
by Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Re-
publican nominee for the Senate In
Illinois, that the committee agents had
Swallowed her or broken into her Of
fees in search of records.
mo agent of the committee" said
Senator Nye, has been hired to steal
records, tap wires or to shadow indi-
vidual candidates. Such charges against
the committee have been given wide
spread publicity, but are based on moth
who hired detectives to shadow the
agents of the committee and the chair
man.
HAS DCCH LNV 0A0uVWAABs
ct am rather ashamed of even honor
ing these charges by making a state
ment in regard to them. There has
been no shadowing of Mrs. Mccormick
by agents of the committee or by any
other person. The committee has no
reason to be ashamed of any of the
work done by its agents in Illinois or
elsewhere"
Senator Nye said the committee I'M
doubtedly would go further into the
charges and counter charges of detec-
tives and private agents in Illinois. He
said the committee has about 80 more
witnesses to hear ON the Illinois pri-
mary and plans to go deeply into
charges regarding expenditures in Cook
County and downstate. He said he
expected the committee to complete
its work IN Chicago during the COM
ing week.
From Illinois, the committee will 90
to Nebraska, where Senator Nye ex-
poets to have George Norris OF Broken
Bow finally appear before the commit
tee. Senator Nye said he believed the
committee was fully justified in going
further into the candidacy OF Senator
Norris namesake, even though the Nor
ris of Broken Bow withdrew from the
primary contest before it was held.
Going to Denver.
After it has completed its hearing in
Nebraska, the Senate Committee will go
to Denver, Colo. Charges of excessive
expenditures in the Colorado primary
have been made. Also it has been
charged that A. j. Finch, the head of
the Anti-Saloon League in the State,
sold stock in various concerns to sew"
eral of the candidates for nomination.
Undoubtedly the Senate Committee
will make an investigation of the sena-
torial primary in Massachusetts," Sena-
tor Nye continued 1.-THE reports re-
ceived from the agents of the commit
tee would warrant such an nvestiga-
ton"
The inquiry into the Massachusetts,
primary probably will not be UNDER
taken until October, Senator Nye' said.
The Massachusetts, primary takes place
on Tuesday, September 16.
The charges which have been
brought before the committee, alleged
that excessive sums of money have
been expended in behalf of the NOM
ination of William M. Butler, a candi-
date for the Republican senatorial NOM
ination. Mr.. Butler was formerly chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, and at one time served as Sem
ator from Massachusetts, under appoint
ment by the Governor.
Undecided About Maine.
Whether the committee will under
take to make an investigation of the
senatorial primary in Maine will be
determined later, Senator Nye said. He
has been trying to get Representative
Wallace H. White, newly elected Senator
in Maine, to file with the committee q
more detailed statement Of his cam
paign expenditures. 1t is understood
that Mr.. White has sent to the commit
tee further statement. The chairman
said that he would go over the state
ment, and take the matter up with the
committee. Letters, he said, have been
received from Maine. indicating that
considerable money was expended in
behalf of Mr.. White during the primary
campaign.
The committee will go to Tennessee
to conduct an inquiry into charges of
excessive expenditures, involving aena-
tor Brock and Representative Cordell
Hull, the successful Democratic candi-
dates in the senatorial primaries there,
Senator Nye said.
Other Probes Asked.
There have been demands for In
VeStigation by the committee also in
Oklahoma, Alabama and North Caro-
lima. And more recently, Senator Cole
Blease of South Carolina, defeated in
the recent primary there by former
Representative Burns, has put in a
plea for a senatorial investigation Of
the expenditures made for his opponent
in the primaries.
Evidence has been submitted to the
committee that money in excess of the
$4,000 limit set by the New Jersey pri-
mary law was expended on behalf Of
the candidacy of Dwight w. Morrow
and on behalf of other candidates for
the senatorial nomination in that State,
according to Senator Nye. He said,
however, that he did not believe 1t would
be possible for the committee to get
into New Jersey until after the gen.
eral election in November.