The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer

SIOIeS dDOuL Gle I VI GAiOoe wiz
try to bring pressure on Congress
for or against measures today.
Every Investigation of lobbies has
added to the list of abuses on the
record.
In 1913, the Mulhall investigation
disclosed that the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers was the ven
triloquist pulling the strings that
operated the National Council for
Industrial Defense, the National
Tariff Commission Association, and
the Workingmen's Protective As
ISOLATION.
In 1929, the Caraway Committee
found that Charles L. EyanSon, as
Sistant TO the president of the Man
u%facturers' Association of Connect
cut, had been brought to Washing
ton as a clerk" by Senator Hiram
Bingham of Connecticut and taken
into executive sessions of the Sen
ate Finance Committee, then a.
work on the Smoot-Hawley tariff
bill.
FOmented Latin Hostility
1t found that William Burgess,
one-time member of the United
States Tariff Commission but longer
in the employ of the United States
Pottery Association, tried to have
Frederick Koch dismissed as a tariff
commission expert on pottery when
Mr.. Koch supplied information to
low-tarif senators as well as high
tariff ones.
Investigating the sugar lobby. it
was found that "a particularly
reprehensible part of the program
carried on by H. c. Lakin was an
effort to stir up hostility to the
United States in Latin American
countries upon the assumption that
it, by its tariff policy, was mistreat-
ing Cuba"
1t found that the Southern Tariff
Association, the American Tax
payers League, the National Coun-
Gil of State Legislators and other Or
CARNATIONS were "all aliases under
which n j. A. Arnold operates
oStenSibly to influence congressional
legislation, but in fact for the pur-
pose of making a living for himself
and a small group associated with
him." CMr. Arnold is currently active
again in Washington. soliciting
funds for his American Taxpayers
League, Inc.O
Grundy and Shearer
The Caraway committee delYed
into the activities and views of
Joseph r. Grundy, whose chief
contribution to political life has con-
sisted of the raising of funds for
campaign use" whose zeal for high
tariffs lis religious in its intensity"
and who "felt an obligation to come
to Washington to see that the
individuals who, through his solicit
tation, contributed to the campaign
fund, were made whole"
1t explored the means by which
Muscle Shoals legislation had been
successfully blocked for more than
10 years.
That same year another senatorial
committee undertook to investigate
the munitions lobby and heard testi-
mony that William B. Shearer, paid
by steel men and ShipbuilderS, had
helped Scuttle the Geneva naval
conference.
Utilities Inquiry Staged
At about the same time, Senator
George w. Norris and the late Sen
ator Thomas j. Walsh began to ask
for investigation of utility propa-
ganda. When MI. Walsh's resolu-
ton to that end was finally given
a hearing, the Senate was startled
by the weight of pressure brought to
defeat it.
1t voted for the investigation, and
soon thereafter learned from the
Federal Trade Commission that
100000 had been collected by the
Joint Committee of National Utility
Associations to hight n 1nVeStlga-
ton and the Boulder Dam, Muscle
Shoals and other bills then pending.
Last November, the Trade Com
mission, summarizing its findings of
the last six years, said Of the utility
campaign:
To such an extent has the utility
program taken into consideration
every public contact that no cam
paign approaching it in magnitude
has ever been conducted except pos
sibly by governments in war time.
The various utility associations have
collected and disbursed probably
more money for good will purposes
than has been secured or paid out
by any other group or organization
not actually engaged in commerce
or manufacture"
'Impregnable Wall" Claimed
The Commission recognized "the
induStry'S right to make public an
impartial presentation of the essen