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...Beecher Howell. now dead, to investigate campaign expenditures. Also last year Senator Long, by a feat of political rough-&-tumble. had his henchman John Overton, a Grade B Representative, nominated (and automatically elected) to Louisiana's other seat in the U. S. Senate. Defeated for renomination. Edwin Sidney Broussard spent his last days in Washington crying that he had been politically raped and robbed...
Last February the Howell committee, still Republican, went to New Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee...
Other testimony: a policeman voted three times in New Orleans; Overton workers marked ballots for voters outside the polling places; a blind man who tried to vote for Broussard had his ballot snatched away by an Overton lieutenant...
...take exception to your footnote in which you quote an excerpt from the Senator's statement during the Broussard-Overton senatorial investigation in which he said: ''Since the counsel wants to know, we collected for Tin-States when they were with us, and for the Progress [Huey Long's own slandering weekly] when they were with us. Yes, sir, we help our friends when they are with...
After turning Louisiana over to Governor Allen, Senator Long was again delayed in getting on the national stump. Senator-reject Broussard had started a court contest against his successful opponent. Huey Long, smart lawyer who took a three-year course at Tulane in one, decided to postpone his departure until after the court hearing Oct. 5. Then, he said, he would "tell 'em plenty...