Evening star., 1932-05-11
.BR|TTEN HURLS L|E;
GLASS PROMISES
BANK HIRE PROOF
Virginian Challenges Some
One to Be Responsible for
Publishing Evidence.
GUILTY CONGRESSMAN"
NOW DEAD, HE SAYS
Says Revelation Was Not Made
Previously Because of the
State of His Health.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Glass, Democrat of Virginia,
offered in the Senate today to prove
that a member of Congress had been
hired several years ago to oppose branch
banking provisions of the McFadden
bill If any one was willing to take the
responsibility for making the evidence
public.
Replying to an assertion in the House
that the charge Glass voiced yesterday
was a "dastardly lie," the Virginian
said evidence that a Congressman had
been hired had been unearthed by a
Senate committee, but had been with
held because of the health of the man
involved.
Britten HurlS Lie.
Glass made his statement yesterday
during debate on his banking bill. He
first said banks In the Loop district Of
Chicago had employed the member OF
Congress, but later corrected his state
ment to apply to banks outside OF the
Loop area.
Representative Britten, Republican, of
Illinois, said in the House today the
charge was a "dastardly lie"
Referring today to the charges he
made yesterday, Glass said:
1T will be recalled by Senators that
rumors to that effect were so insistent
that the Senate passed a resolution di-
recting an investigation OF them by
subcommittee of the Banking and Cur
rency Committee.
SAYS Man Now Dead.
THAT committee consisted of former
Senator Sackett. former Senator Edge
and myself We pursued the inquiry
and obtained documentary proof with
respect to one more or less prominent
member of Congress.
we had the testimony Of this mans
family physician that any revelation Of
that nature would endanger his life
and, therefore, the subcommittee de-
termined not to pursue the investigation
any further.
That congressman has since died
and perhaps 1 should not have made
the reference did to IT.
The statement came after a pro-
longed wrangle- over whether, under
House rules, Britten could make
reference TO the Glass speech.
Fails to Mention Name.
The chair. occupied by Representative
Browning, Democrat. of Tennessee,
ruled Britten could not quote from
Glass speech, so the Chicagoan con-
fined his remarks to newspaper reports
and did not mention Glass by name.
This impugns the honesty and pur-
~
Britten shouted.
Glass had said that when the McFad-
den branch banking bill was under con-
Chicago bankers hired
Skillful and persuasive professional lob
byist and paid him a high salary to
come here to Washington-worse than
that, they hired some Congressman, to
my positive documentary knowledge
to oppose even that small measure of
branch banking"
NOrbeck AsSails Bill.
Meanwhile in the Senate Chairman
Norbeck of the Banking Committee at
tackled the branch banking extension
provisions of the Glass banking reform
bill
The bill as approved by Norbecks
would permit branch bank
ing IN any state.
Norbeck's opposition is based on his
this extension would ulti-
mately destroy State banks. He as
sailed the Federal Reserve System, which
he charged had failed to perform its
functions of maintaining an elastic
Glass statements on the bill, Nor
beck said, were replete with disclosures
the system was dominated from New
York" and that instead of controlling
booms, it had been run away with and
then had swung to the other extreme.
Representative Britten told the House
he didn't believe Glass had lied" de-
liberately, but nevertheless 1t was done
and 1 think a further statement should
be made"
Legislation is not influenced by
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