Evening star., 1936-03-22
BIG GDONORSBARED
AGAINST NEW DEAL
Lobby investigators Report
Evidence Involving Or.
ganizations.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Senate committees attempts TO
Investigate conduct OF special In.
terests in connection iDith lcqisl1-
ton has encountered unprece-
dented complication OF court au-
thority being directed against them.
Recourse to courts first taken BY
Chicago ldio firm, ,0ith Publisher
Hearst tollotoing example; action
based upon committee efforts to
force submission OF telegraph files
By Western Union.
Issue seems headed for Supreme
Court as Congress prepares to pro-
Uide committee eItrd counsel funds.
By the Associated Press.
Senate lobby investigators yesterday
reported the receipt Of evidence that
several anti-New Deal organizations
have drawn their principal financial
support from virtually identical list
of large contributors.
This was learned, investigators said,
in the course of an extensive and
continuing examination of the hnan-
cial sources Of 20 or 25 organizations,
among the the American Liberty
League, the Southern Committee to
Uphold the Constitution, the Senti-
nels Of the Republic apd the Cru
saders.
The Southern Committee to Uphold
the Constitution sponsored the recent
grassroots convention of anti-New
Deal Democrats. headed by Gov. Tai
madge of Georgia. The kilograms Of
one of its leaders, John H. Kirby Of
Houston, Tex, have been subpoenaed
by the committee.
Arnold's Examination.
J. A. Arnold, manager of the Amer.
ican Taxpayers League, this week un-
derwent sharp cross examination by
the Lobby Committee on his relations
ship with Kirby, a former associate.
He denied any recent cooperation.
Chairman Black, Democrat, of Ala
bama intimated. however, that the
committee would seek to bring out
facts about Kirbys activities later.
Meanwhile. House leaders planned to
put through Blacks joint resolution
to equip the committee with $4,000
for special counsel to fight the in
junction suit brought by William RAN
dolph Hearst, challenging the legality
Of the committees methods of SUBJ
poenaeing kilograms.
Haste Thought Unnecessary.
They expected to obtain adoption at
the first convention date, intimating
they felt there was no immediate neces-
sity for speed since the measure re-
quires President Roosevelts signature
and thus probably cannot become ef-
fective until he returns from his pres.
ent Florida fishing trip.
In advance of certain House ap.
proval, Col. Champion Harris, Birming-
ham, Ala. attorney. and former law
partner of Black, was busy preparing
the committees defense. He expected
to file a reply to the Hearst suit early
next week.
Black, who would not discuss other
phases Of the investigation, did con-
firm the. fact that the committee is
looking into the Southern Committee
to Uphold the Constitution and as
serted that recent published reports
that the committee was investigating
this or that group or individual came
from sources outside the committee.
THE committee he said, has stood
by a policy of not giving publicity
to the names Of those summoned or
whose papers or correspondence or
books are summoned until the wit
nesses are placed on the stand. OF
course, where the parties summoned
wish it be made public, they are at
liberty to make their own announce
ments."