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...that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation of the Van Sweringen railway system...
...Baron Snell, a onetime ploughboy, stable groom and potman who later became a Fabian Socialist and is chairman of the British Ethical Union led the Labor Opposition's attack. "A complete mess has been made," he declared, "of one of the most honorable tasks ever entrusted to a Government...
Republican Leader Snell declared that $350,000 "is a fairly liberal amount to celebrate something [the Constitution] that is diminishing at the present time." More serious criticism fell upon Sol's Story of the Constitution for which he wanted the money to distribute. Republican Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, demanded: "Does the 10? which is paid for these books cover the cost?" "Yes & no," said Mr. Bloom. "Well, yes or no?" "I cannot answer in that way. The publication of the 10? book itself costs us about 11?." How many offices did his staff occupy in the old House...
Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
...Snell said he was going to demand a Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...