The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-14

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 Senator Minton of Indiana, who inherited the chairmanship of Hugo Blacks lobby investigating committee, has been doing some quiet sleuthing into W reported expenditure by the Japanese gov- ernment for propaganda pur- poses, and (2) an undercover drive by the lumber and mine in- terests of the Far West to defeat the proposed establishment of 8 department of conservation, which is one of the items in the government reorganization bill.
 The Japanese propaganda fund is alleged to total $50O,00O, authorized at the time of the Panay incident, and prelimi- nary probing by the U. s. mill itary intelligence and by Hoover's G-men points Co some very well-known Americans who so far must be nameIess.
 The lobbying campaign of the lumber interests is equally sen- sational, and involves a feud be- tween two of Roosevelt's most important Cabinet members
 Pawn in the lobbying drive is the Forest Service, which the Far Western interests are determined to keep in Henry Wallace,s Agri- culture Department instead of al- lowing it to go to the proposed conservation department, which would be under the fortnight and conservation-min Harold Ickes.
 Chief Lobbyist
 The cabinet feuding has been so intense that Henry Wallace's men even went so far as to SUD- ply a Forest Service automobile to the chief lobbyist engaged in defeating the Conservation De- partment bill.
 This lobbyist, by name Charles Dunwoody, promises to become as famous in Washington lobbying annals as the elusive MT. Hob- son of Associated Gas and Elec- trio.
 Living directly across from the White House, Dunwoody of- ficially represents the Califor- mia Chamber of Commerce, but also is lined up with various land and lumber interests. It is his open boast that he has de- feated the Conservation De- partment scheme without mak- ing more than half a dozen trips to Capitol Hill.
 His secret tactics are described in an affieavit now before Sena- tor Minton, in which Dunwoody is represented as using Senator Key Pittman of Nevada as a front for attacking the Conserva- tion department.
 Pittman VS. BurleW
 Pittman, Dunwoody knew, had a private dislike of E. K. Burlew who, after 27 years of govern ment service. was nominated to be Assistant Secretary of the In- terior. So Dunwoody conceived the strategy of squirting Senator Pittman to attack Burlew's con- firmation.
 "Key has disliked Burlew for years," Dunwoody told his col- leagues, according to the affi- davit in the hands or Senator Minton, but he is getting old and is not as aggressive as he used to be, and he and one or two others are merely going to sign a minority report.
 But if I could get Key in a fighting mood" Dunwoody con- tinued, according to the evi- dence before Minton, "I would get Burlew, and even more im- pOrtant, I could smear that In- teriOr Department. Some heavy licks right now before the Re- organization Bill comes up would not help Ickes with his damned conservation scheme"
 Therefore Dunwoody proposed to former agent of the Interior Department, who allegedly had investigated Pittman, that he supply the ammunition to prod Senator Pittman.
 "The main thing is to get Key mad so he will fight" Dunwoody is alleged to have told this agent. We will make 1t worth your while if you can help us. As far as your wife (whO worked for the govern ment) is concerned, Key Pitt man will see to it that she does not lose her job, and would you, yourself, like to have a job in the Agriculture Department? I am not supposed to know Hank Wallace, but I bet he will give you a good job a little later if you want to help us.
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