Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
SHARP DISCUSSION
FACES SHOALS BILL
NEXT UP IN SENATE
Lobby Committee Report,
Dealing With Huston AC-
tivitieS, Involved.
MIDDLE OF WEEK
MAY FINISH PROBE
Raskob May Be Called to Tell Of
Reported Warfare on
Prohibition.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


The Muscle Shoals bill is the next
major legislative problem which the
Senate will tackle. It's likely to lead to
a vivid political discussion.
Involved in the debate of this meas
ure will be a report of the Senate lobby
committee on Muscle Shoals, which
promises to deal extensively with the
activities of Claudius H. Huston, chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee, when he was president Of. the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa-
ton.
The lobby committee expects to wind
UP its inquiry into the Muscle Shoals
lobby by the middle of the week and
to submit its report thereon immedi-
ately to the Senate. It resumes its
hearings Tuesday with w. B. Bell,
president of the American Cynamid
Co., bidder for Muscle Shoals as the
last witness.
While the Democratic and Republi-
can progressive members of the lobby
committee were preparing to submit a
report criticiSing Mr.. Houston, the
national chairman Of the G. o. P, it
developed that Senator Robinson Of
Indiana, regular Republican member of
the committee, had in mind causing the
Democrats as much grief as possible
by calling John j. Raskob, chairman
of the Democratic national committee,
to appear before the committee and
tell what he had done or was doing for
the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment.
Wet-Dry Probe Next.
The inquiry by the Senate lobby COM
mittee into the activities Of the vets
and drys, to be undertaken as soon as
the Muscle Shoals matter Is out Of the
way, grows out Of demand by Repre-
sentative Tinkham Of Massachusetts,
wet Republican, to be heard on the
lobbying activities OF some Of the dry
organizations.
Senator Robinson has been informed,
he says, that Mr.. Raskob has BEEN
actively identified with the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
which has been lobbying for repeal Of
the eighteenth amendment.
ST want to bring out the facts on
both Sides" said the Indiana Senator,
a dry, referring to the coming inquiry
into the wet and dry organizations
ACTIVITIES mere IN washington.
Just about the time that Senator
Robinson was preparing to demand the
call of Mr.. Raskob before the lobby
committee, Josephus Daniels, former
Secretary of the Navy in the wilson
administration and publisher Of the
Raleigh News and Observer, was pub
fishing an article in his newspaper de.
handing that Mr.. Raskob pay the debts
of the Democratic party incurred in the
1928 campaign and resign. Mr.. Daniels
insisted that Mr.. RaSkob had been
more interested in destroying prohibi.
ton than in the Democratic party. He
said the Democratic chairman had given
money to the Association Against the
Eighteenth Amendment and made adj
vances to the Democratic party"
Chairman Caraway of the Senate
lobby committee said last night that
any member of the committee had the
right to have witnesses summoned be-
fore the committee If they thought the
witnesses could throw light on the sub
ject under investigation. This was in
terpreted as meaning that MIR. RaSkob
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