Word: eyanson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bemoaned the passing of the oldline lobbyist who "really knew the tariff." He suggested the formation of a special school in which younger men could be taught the art of tariff lobbying. Praise from the master-lobbyist: "If there were a hundred brilliant young men like Mr. Eyanson [see below] in Washington, the country would be better...
Last February Senator Bingham asked Elijah Kent Hubbard, president of the Connecticut association, for the "loan" of a man to help the State's interests on the tariff bill. Mr. Eyanson was sent to Washington, settling himself in Senator Bingham's office. During the open hearings he sat at the Senator's elbow and whispered questions to be asked witnesses. He prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that...
...terrible hours Senator Bingham spent on the witness stand before the Senate Lobby Committee explaining, trying to explain and justify Eyanson. Savage and sneering was his examination by Senators Walsh, Caraway and Blaine. When he attempted to speak in self-defense, Senator Walsh jerked him up with: "The trouble you're in now is due to the fact that you talk too much." He writhed in his chair and his cheeks were crimson in contrast to his white hair as the investigators spoke of "falsification" and "serving two masters...
Fuming against what he considered the "discourteous treatment" he was receiving from the committee, Senator Bingham defended Eyanson as a "good teacher," denied that he actually lobbied, made much of the technicality that he had not personally cashed his Senate pay checks. In the end, though, Senator Bingham was concerned into the admission that: "I probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher...
...Lobbyist Eyanson took the stand but could add little to the story his employer had told the day before. He could see nothing wrong in the "service" he rendered. So evasive was his testimony that Senator Walsh charged him with deliberately developing a "feeble memory...