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Awards. For his vigilance in discovering Lobbyist Charles L. Eyanson of Connecticut Manufacturers Association in the offices of Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut (TIME, Oct. 28), John A. Kennedy of Universal News Service (Hearst) was awarded the Chester D. Pugsley prize of $1,000. Second prize went to Paul R. Mallon of the United Press who disclosed the Senate's secret roll call on the confirmation of onetime Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin, as a judge in the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
...Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated its aeronautical expert. His zeal for a high tariff combined with his professed ignorance of tariff matters led to his disastrous use of Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the president of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association (TIME, Oct. 28). Eyanson was sent to his office to tell him what Connecticut manufacturers wanted out of the Tariff, to supply him with economic arguments to obtain it. He made Eyanson a technical Senate employe, took him into a secret...
...RESOLVED: That the action of the Senator from Connecticut in placing Mr. Charles L. Eyanson upon the official rolls of the Senate at the time and in the manner set forth ... is contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and such conduct is hereby condemned...
Thus was the stage set last week for a scene rare in Senate annals. Senator Norris would have dropped his resolution if Senator Bingham had consented to do "honestly and manfully" two things: 1) Admit his mistake in hiring Eyanson; 2) Apologize to the Lobby Committee. Senator Bingham, despite the pleading of his friends, refused...
...legislative days later the Norris resolution came before a gravely hushed Senate. Arose Senator Bingham, again to speak in self-defense, this time softly, tactfully. His defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...