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...Senator had deliberately hired a lobbyist and taken him, disguised as a Senate clerk, into the Finance Committee's secret hearings as a means of getting higher tariff rates for his State (TIME, Oct. 7). The Senator was Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The lobbyist was Charles L. Eyanson, tariff "expert," assistant to the president (of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. Together Lobbyist Eyanson and Senator Bingham secured tariff increases for 44 of Connecticut's 51 industries. They averaged about 4% and were worth approximately $75,000,000 in "protection" to the State's manufacturers...
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...
...within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time he was undoubtedly working, even in the Republican army's most secret caucuses...
...warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...