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...Representatives. Last week Senators- five of them as a special investigating committee-began to prey on lobbyists. Witnesses winced and twitched uncomfortably as Senators Caraway, Walsh of Montana and Borah took the lead in uncovering their undercover work. The week's developments: Pottery. Fredrick L. Koch is a Tariff Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have him discharged from the Commission's employ. The chief complaint against...
...Connecticut. The climax of the committee's week came in its scrutiny of how one 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...
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...
Significance. The first week's disclosures before the Senate's lobby committee, observers thought, seriously imperiled the whole tariff bill now before the Senate. Vague and generalized have been the charges heretofore that special interests exert special influence through lobbyists to obtain special tariff favors. Now opposition Senators were supplied with damning specifications for use in debate. Every tariff increase was suspect. The investigating committee tasting blood, was in full bay after that prime tariff lobbyist, Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the American Tariff League. The rotund Grundy shadow has moved about the Capitol almost...
...trail of the lobbyists and so important was their reluctant testimony in relation to the pending tariff bill that the Senate committee even pondered the advisability of asking the Department of Justice for a detachment of Secret Service operatives to run down clues, to bring skulking lobbyists up out of their holes...