The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-09
SENATE GROUP
SET TO REVEAL
'SUPER-LOBBY'
Committee Is Prepared to
Answer Challenge to
New Deal.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-An an
swer to the organized assault against
the New Deal by big business and
finance will soon begin to crackle
from the Senate lobby investigat-
ing committee.
simultaneously with the declara-
ton of war along all fronts by the
National Manufacturers Associa-
ton at its New York meeting, with
the avowed object of "liquidating"
the New Deal, it was learned that
the lobby committee has dug UP a
pile of evidence by which it expects
TO show the forces and the motives
behind the fight on Administration
reforms, and the "interlocking di-
rectorates" of big figures involved.
The revelations, it is said, will
show that the super lobby" which
Edward F. Hutton, the capitalist,
recently suggested and later re-
nounced is already fact in the CO.
operation of numerous interests and
organizations hostile to the RooSe-
velt regime.
May Surpass Famed Probe
Senator Hugo Black Cd, Ala),
committee chairman, has not de-
cided whether to open the inquiry
a few days before Christmas or
await the reconvening of Congress
on Jan. 3. But he is ready.
Ever since Congress recessed in
late summer, staff of investigators
ranging at times up to 30 persons
has been busy in the committees
basement office at the Senate of
nee building. The trail has taken
them to many places outside of
washington. 1t has been a stupen-
dous detective job, as the results will
SHOW when hearings begin.
The inquiry, it is forecast, will
overshadow previous ones of it's
type-the Mulhall investigation in
1913 and the Caraway investigation
of 1880. 1t is expected to give the
most complete picture of invisible
government" ever drawn.
Shipping Lobby Due for Quiz
The committee will begin bv re-
Stunning its investigation of the
utility lobby, When Congress re-
cessed, the inquiry had already re-
Vealed that one giant holding COM
pany, Associated Gas and Electric.
spent more than 100000 in it's
propaganda campaign against the
Wheeler-Rayburn bill and inundated
congressman with canned telegrams
which provoked a nationwide litter
IN the testimony of Elmer, the tele-
graph messenger.
Expenditures of other companies
Will be brought to light. Subse-
quently, the committee will delve
into numerous other Hobbies. includ-
ing the shipping lobby, which is of
particular interest to Senator Black
because of his previous inquiry into
ship subsidies and because a Shin
ping bill will be before Congress.
Interests Gang Up"
On several occasions the gang
ing up of numerous interests to
hight legislation has been apparent
here. For instance, the New York
Stock Exchange, in its campaign
against stock market regulation, en-
listed the support of the National
Manufacturers Association and the
so-called durable goods committee of
NRA headed by George H. Houston,
president of Baldwin Locomotive
Works, though these had no direct
interest in the regulation of stock
exchanges.
The real extent and meaning of
this lnter-relationship has been
traced for the first time by the
Lobby Committee, just as the Senate
Banking Committee and the Fed
eral Trade Commission built US the
family trees" of banking, finance
and the power industry.