, 1935-07-25
TheW W. r1d
AT a Glance
by LESLIE ETCHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

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NEW YORK. July 25.-The STRAIT
cgy OF the Roosevelt administration
TO rebute the attacks becomes APP
parent.
The utility and banking interests
have played into the hands OK the
administration, according 70 pres
ent indications. Chat does not
mean. however, that congress VIII
be amenable 70 put through the
holding company and banking bills
with real teeth IN them)
While OH one hand we W. the
senate lobby investigating commit
tee. under Senator Hugo Black. or
Alabama. uncovering evidence that
utilities paid for the protests and
attacks ON the utility holding COM
pany bill, we hear also OF charges
that utility banking interests ike
wise paid for attacks ON the AAA,
the IVA, the banking bill and
the PWA as well.
And up its sleeve. the admins
tration Is believed TO have evidence
purported TO show that financial
interests directed the baErage
against the president on the cons
titution. Wall Street firms are
sending out form letters asserting
that liberties can be maintained
only " the constitution is not
Whoever were the master minds
that directed the campaign from
wrruu @+~nm# nnw&mNwfvr harrnfmI wrMmf
ever good cause they might have
had. That's the word among bust
neSSmen. The majority OF letters
and kilograms have read alike.
and, nv i'm the absurd instance In
Pennsylvania when the telegraph
records were burned, the names
0aked TO the meSsagesl were all
from the beginning or the alpha
bet.
Fighting Government
INVESTIGATING committees are not
the only means through which the
administration, seemingly without
voluntary effort. Az answering the
attacking interests.
Henry T. Hunt, general counsel
of the Public Works administration.
remarks that 22 court actions taken
against the construction OF NUM-
cipal power plants with federal
funds seem premeditated BY a
single force.
In a statement. Hunt said I'm
virtually every case. the language
In the bills Is similar 50 far as
questions or constitutionality are
concerned. III some instances they
are identical"
Millions Spent?
That millions have been spent I'm
opposing pending measures seenl'
the belief OF investigators.
III the holding company whose
representatives sent the faxed te-
legramS admittedly spent $500. 900
alone. III In presumed the general
pot" was I'm the millions
The companies, OF course, con-
tend they have spent the money OF
stockholders for their own protec-
ton. AS all expenses enter into the
rate-making structure. however.
the public pays the bill II the end.
T~nterIockInR
When ". r. Beach, manager or
the y sIrity department or the Asso-
ciated Gas and Electric company.
said he did not know which parti-
cular company furnished the $780,
600 for the Pennsylvania kilograms,
Senator Black commented:
THAT certainly bears out the
argument of Senator Brown I'm the
senate debate that state regulatory
bodies. OF which Brown formerly
was a member. are unable TO pierce
the maz OF i~nterlocking corpora
tons to get at the truth"
Farm Interests Aroused
Edward "A. ONeal, president or
the American Farm Bureau Fede-
ration, descended upon the senate
lobby committee 70 demand an in
veStigatiOn OF attacks on the AAA.
The Associated Gas AZ Electric
System. the same outfit which sent
fake kilograms 10 congressman, has
inserted paid advertisements
against the AAA amendments In
newspapers. Unless there Is m COM
munity OF interests and "A definite,
tie-up. why should Associated Cas-
and Electric 60 out OF its way &C.
help defeat a bill with which Ii In
not ~cOncerned2
II suspect that the Black COM
mittee would find n definite tie-up
between these Hobbies fighting le-
gislation To benefit the farmer
and the worker. The American Ii
berty League. which includes
among its officials many power
trust officials, has fought the AAA
amendments and almost every
other important administration le-
giSlation.
The pressure against the amend
ments from m well-organized lobby
has been 10 strong there is I'M grave
danger the bill will be ruined and
leave farmers without protective
legislation. An effort is being made
TO destroy the farmers program. I
think the farmers will be heart,
from before this measure is dis
posed Of"
As newest Abyssinian incident.
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