Evening star., 1932-11-03
WIN
STATEMENT BATTLE
G. O. P. Retracts Charge Re.
port to House Was Not
Made Upon Denial.

Two statements were issued by the
Republican National Committee and
one by the National Progressive League
last night concerning the campaign
fund of the latter organization
In its first statement the Republican
Committee said the interlocking of the
National Progressive League, headed by
Senator Norris of Nebraska. and the
Democratic National Campaign Com
mittee is proven by the report Of F.
c. Walker, treasurer of the Democratic
organization. filed with the clerk of
the House Of Representatives.
This statement continued
"A notation in this report shows
that the Democratic national organiza-
ton loaned $1,000 in cash to the Ma
tional Progressive League last Septem-
Der and there is no report that this
loan was repaid.
First Filed With Clerk.
This report is the first to be filed
with the clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives showing the sources of any
of the funds received by the National
Progressive League.
The filing date for the last report
was on october 27, but as yet the league
has made no report to the clerk Of
the House of Representatives. BY rea-
son of Senator Norris previously
avowed fervor for full publicity for cam
paign contributions, it is regarded as
strange that he would permit his own
personally organized political organiza-
ton to flagrantly violate the penal pro-
visions of the corrupt practices act"
The leagues subsequent statement
said:
The statement issued by the Re-
publican National Committee attacking
the National Progressive League is
characteristic of the scandalous and
the Republican party in its desperate
efforts to maintain the present bank
rupt administration in Office.
Holds Receipt of Clerk"
The National Progressive League has
filed its reports in strict accordance
with the Federal corrupt practices act,
showing the source of every dollar
which has been received and expended
during the campaign. 1t holds the
receipt of South Trimble clerk of the
House OF Representatives, acknoWledg-
ing receipt of this report upon the date
when it was due to be flied.
Every press association has carried
full report Of the statement and the
Republican National Committee cannot
honestly pretend to be ignorant Of the
facts"
The second Republican statement
said:
Acting upon information obtained
from the office of the Clerk of tho
House Of Representatives. the Repub-
lican National Committee today issued
statement asserting that the National
Progressive League had failed to COM
ply with the provisions of the corrupt
practices act
After this statement had been issued
upon this information from an official
source it developed that the employe
who is presumed to have custody OF
such records. had received two reports
relating to this league. one from the
New York headquarters and one from
the Western headquarters, at Chicago
Both came in Monday.
Reports Must Have Been Mixed.
The explanation at the office of the
clerk of the House for the erroneous
information given the Republican Ma
tional Committee is that these reports
must have become mixed in with con-
gressional reports and so were over
looked.
However that may be, neither report
was received until after october 29, the
date on which filing was due. The re-
port from the Chicago headquarters was
postmarked at Chicago october 80, 1882
$50 pm, according to information
given at the clerks Office. The other
was postmarked at New York on Oc-
tober 29."