Evening star., 1931-05-12
INTERSTATE CURB
ON FUNDS URGED
Nye Would Confine Expendi-
tures to States Where
Election Is Held.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Gerald P. Nye Of North Da-
paign Expenditures Committee, which is
expected to draft a new corrupt prac-
tees bill for submission at the next
session of Congress, said today he be-
lieved the proposed new Law could well
carry a provision that IN Congressional
elections, the money used must come
from within the State and must not be
imported from other States.
Senator Nye said such law should
apply to both senatorial and House
elections, and to the general elections as
well as to the primaries.
Would Confine Funds.
"Since Senators and members of the
House are representatives of the
States" Senator Nye said today, Il
see no good reason why they should be
nominated or elected with the aid OF
campaign funds sent into their States
from outside. Indeed, there is very
good reason to conf1ne the contrtbu-
tions to the congressional campaigns
to the States within which those CAM
paigns are fought out"
Chairman Nye said, however, that In
national elections where the presidency
and the vice presidency were at stake
he did not think it would be advisable
to attempt to prevent the interstate
shipment of campaign funds. He said
that in States where one political party
was so far in the ascendency as tc
make it one-party State. such rule
might break down all chance OF the
nf
party within that State. He said this
was true of both strongly Democratic
and strongly Republican States today
May Attack System.
In view of the statement CT Chair
man Nye, it appears a serious attempt
may be made to break down a system
which has developed whereby campaign
funds are shipped by national and con-
gressional campaign committees into
States where it seems necessary to build
up the war chests of that particular
party in question. More and more the
practice has developed of bringing such
aid into States regarded as real battle
grounds, as well as into those which
are regarded as little better than hope
less for victory.
The Republican National Committee,
for example, has raised funds for cam
palgn purposes ana mas IurneQ JnOSe
funds over to the Senatorial Campaign
Committee and to the Congressional
Campaign Committee for use in various
States and districts where the battles
have been particularly bitter. This hap
pened during the 1880 congressional
campaign.
Democrats Also Hit.
The Democratic national organiza ton
has functioned pretty much the same
way, sending money and speakers into
States and congressional districts where
they seemed to be most needed. The
demands made upon the national COM
mitteeS by campaign managers in many
of the districts and States have been
very large in the past, and treasurers
of the national committees have had
to resist these efforts to obtain funds
on more than one occasion
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, in
letter sent yesterday to Chairman
Nye, an amendment to prohibit the
contributing of funds by a person liv-
ing in one State to be used in another.
The Virginian was hitting particularly
at Bishop James Cannon, jr., who was
head CT the anti-Smith Democratic
campaign in Virginia and other parts
of the South during the 1928 cam
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