Evening star., 1935-07-25
Lobby
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
Coz" asked Senator Schwellenbach,
Democrat of Washington.
II don't know" Carpenter replied.
Did you ever see such an announce
ment?"
mo, I don't recall that he made
any announcement"
Explains Spending.
When the House Rules Committee
resumed its investigation of lobbying
for and against the utilities bill, DR.
Magill told of the $50, 900 expenditure
by the American Federation of Utilities
Investors and explained that the group
had receipts of $4,000 from member
ship fees prier to this year and S62 600
during the first six months of 1885.
and $4,000 from sale of literature last
year and $500 this year.
Our particular purpose was to pro-
tect the investors" he added, but IN
doing that not to be harmful to the
consumer"
The largest of the membership con-
Notwithstanding from less than
a dollar up''-he said was 81 900 from
w. A. Alexander, Chicago insurance
broker. He could not remember how
much Halsey Stuart paid.
He said he had not talked with more
than a dozen Representatives and
Capotorc irnlud;po Cl,o iy,,oo =, UJtaoIer
of the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee.
That took place on May 80 in the
presence of Benjamin Cohen, P. W. A.
attorney, he said
Magill said Wheeler knew his posi-
ton and that he went to see the chair
man about acceptance Of the Dieterich
amendment to knock out the proW-
sion for abolishing unnecessary"
holding companies.
Senate and House conterees are
seeking to agree on what should be
done about this provision voted by the
Senate and rejected by the House.
President Roosevelt is for it.
Magill said he talked over the
amendment with Senator Dieterich,
Democrat, of Illinois, before it was
introduced.
Asked by Representative Cox, Demo-
crat, of Georgia, when he first knew
Dieterich, he said he became acquatnt-
ed with him when Dieterich and
Senator Hastings, Republican, Of
Delaware, walked out of an Interstate
Commerce Committee meeting dis
satisfied with the proceedings.
Later, MaGill said, he called on
Dieterich and suggested "an amend
ment"
Pressed by Cox, MaGill said:
Il gave him the general idea but
did not write it."
The general idea was carried into
the amendment" he said but quickly
added:
"I don't think made the original
suggestion to him, though we were in
agreement on the death sentence
proposition"
"I wouldn't want to take any credit
for the amendment" he smiled.
Magill said the American Liberty
League had not purchased any Of
the utility federation's literature, but
he thought that perhaps a few hum
dred copies were sent to it.
Sees Congress Slurred.
In a prepared statement, Magill
took note of the Senate investigation
of faxed" kilograms by declaring that
to say they had any influence in
turning three -fifths of the Democrats
in the House of Representatives
against the leadership of their Presi-
dent with his almost unlimited power,
slurs the intelligence of the whole
Seventy-fourth Congress"
1T is absurd to state that these
stupid frauds should have had any
weight in the face of the hundreds of
thousands of letters and kilograms in
protest of the death sentence whose
authenticity and sincerity cannot be
questioned" he said.
II am proud to have had a part
in defeating such an unjust measure,
proposed by pseudo economists, and
NY OAlC ACoAdCA1O W1OAA tAAC
tremendous weight of his $1,000, ,000,-
900 lobby fund of taxpayers money"
Blanton Before Group.
When todays Senate lobby hearing
opened Representative Blanton, Demo-
crat, of Texas voluntarily appeared be-
fore the committee to deny he had
talked with Carpenter about the hold
ing company bill.
Carpenter told the committee yes
terday he had talked with all members
of the Texas delegation except Repre-
sentatives Maverick and MacFarlane,
Texas Democrats.
"If I've ever seen Mr.. Carpenter
before I don't remember it," Blanton
said, telling the committee he had
just been introduced to the power
head.
L. 4