Word: eyanson
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Senator Norris explained: the Lobby Committee had developed the fact that Senator Bingham had hired Charles L. Eyanson, had put him on the Senate pay roll (TIME, Oct. 7). Subsequently Senator Bingham in "discourteous language" on the Senate floor had assailed the Lobby Committee's membership. Therefore, he, Senator Norris, offered the following resolution...
...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...
Flayed. Silent and alone in his rear-row seat last week sat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut while Democrats on the Senate floor excoriated his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association, as his tariff tutor (TIME, Oct. 7). The lobby-hunting committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested...