Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1935 — Page 23

MARCH 29, 1935

LOBBIES PLAGUE CONGRESS WITH FLOOD OF MAIL \ 'Right of Petition’ Plea Is Revived by Pressure Groups. Thu It k> ftr tl *• irll'N h ■ stb Firm* lNs'wr l hr • *rrtl>4 !■ h* •"* BY RI TH FTNNF.Y Tim** Wrllrr WASHINGTON. Mar-h 29 Th r '‘ übiquitous twins. Right of fV'.'ion and the Political Lobby. hsvß b**on changing hair ribbons apv.n and trymk to confuse Const- -and tho public as to w'hich is us *ful and which mischievous. They vc been doing It sinoe representative eovorrmcn* began and are eit poet cd to continue unless and p:r.’;l freedom of speech sinks for the third time in a sea of Fascist / raptor oil. But each time thev manat** to do it wih a now twist. The utilities holding company hill started the fun this time. It has been before Congress only a month bu already barkers of the bill are demanding an investigation of the lobby against tt and President Roosevelt has denounced utility propaganda in stinging terms. In return, utility men complain that these rebukes violate their right of petition They hurl the charge of propaganda right bark to officials sponsoring the bill, including the Resident. •A Fighting Word" Both sid** are bitter and probabiv will become more so. The struggle on the holding company issue is certain to be colored bv indignation a all the money spent by lobbies tn the past, all the indefen sb> methods they have used in the past and the constant and annoying pressure they have brought on Congress Lobby has become a fighting word. Ye* rizh s os pci tion. tracing an honorable lineage bick to the Convolution. is inevitably bound togg'her with the po.itical lobby. Only a few wc*ks ago a radio gpeerh bv Father Coughlin on the World Court precipitated upon Senators a storm of letters and telegrams it at, overnight what k had .. enieri certain victory for the Yniirt turned into defeat. a similar deluge of mail is Suing from utility investors. When Congressmen try to differentiate between the two types of mail they ftfid that doing so involves examinations of the motives, methods and general accuracy of the instigators, a task which seems to many of them hopeless. Calls it "Healthy* The lobby ranie into existence many years ago when constituents of the first Congressmen discovered that representation according to geographical units didn’t always mean representation according to jrponomic units. .As essential to democracy as political representation. economic representation was left to develop itself outside the acrepred governmental structure, and as a result it took on strange forms and guises. Yet there has never been a time When students of government believed the lobbv could be done away with without at the same time destroying the right of petition. JLobbies “represent a healthy cAimocrattc development.” says Dr. ML p Herring, author of the Brookings Institution's “Group Representation Before Congress." * They arose in answer to certain needs They have been forced to take the poltical structure as they found It. Entirely extralegal and ngnconstitutlonal. they have been nfuch maligned and misunderstood. Ttu'v are a part of our represent*- I tfte system, and yet due to their I heritage from the old lobby, they I bgar the taint of illegitimacy." "Inevitable," Says Dr. Beard Charles A Beard, eminent historian and political scientist, likewise believes the lobby is inevitable. “Congress must always work amid a vast nd of agencies, liav mg large *orm at their disposal ta spend in agitation and in maintaining research bureaus to accumulate facts gvorable to their special concerns.” .w says in ' The American Leviathan." “Under the burning spotlight of tbeir scrutiny, constantly bombarded by their pleas, threats and promises. and gassed' bv their publicity, the legislator who tries to see things as f hev are and as a whole ajid to do his full duty in the midst of clamor and perplexity must have prise, discrimination and courage." But if Congress has to endure the lfbby it doesn't have to endure it in silence. More and more frequent it recent years have been its in-

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vetiga*:ons of lobbying technique. Its disclosure of illegitimate attempt* to exert influence. As lobbies have grown more arrogant. Congress has been quicker to resent them. As their claims have grown more extravagant. Congress has taken more pains to debunk them. So Intense and so general has this resentment become that when Senator George Norm <R.. Neb.i proposed an investigation of the utility rampaign against the holding mmpanv bill, the Senate approved it at aoce. without a cissenting vote. Tnmnrrn*: Fvnlotin of lobbying.

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rected the meeting and welcomed as new members John R. Commons, F S Robinson. David A Henderson, , C. Kenneth Miller, Harold Hollingsworth. Jack Rhoades, E. N. Stehman. Jack Hardmg and E. O. Marquette. County Teacher* to >fpet Frank E. Strouse, Chicago, special representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad general manager, will address Marion County school teachers tomorrow in the Lawrence Township High School, Lawrence.

DEAF SCHOOL HEAD TO LOSE JOB. IS REPORT O. >l. Pitlenger to Be Ousted After 16 Years at Post. O. M. Pittenger, for 16 years superintendent of the Indiana State School for the Deaf, is scheduled to be replaced in June by Jackson A. Raney, it was reported today. Mr. Raney is a student at Gallautfet College, Washington. D. C., a government supported school. Reports have been current for two years that Mr. Pittenger, a Repub-

lican. was scheduled for dismissal. The board of trustees of the school gave him a vote of confidence a year ago. however, when Gov. Paul V. McNutt conducted an investigation of the school's operation. COLLEGE TO GIVE PLAY Indiana Central Society to Present “Way Back When.” Alpha Psi Omega, dramatic society at Indiana Central College, will present Charlotte Esmond in the leading role of “Way Back When’’ tonight in Kephart Memorial Auditorium. The cast in-

cludes Helen Ramsey, Bearl Smith. Suzanne Sturgeon, Thomas Wonnell, Josephine Eickmann, Paul Doolittle. Josephine Mercer. Ruby Dennis. Let ha Bart ell. Anna Lascu. Nelson Eaton. Fred Bowen. Prof. Donald Carmony and Prof. W, E. Stonebruner.

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