Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1940 — Page 15

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1940 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 15

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ABOUT HATCH BILL

Thirteen of Committeemen Questioned Claim They Voted Against Pigeonholing It; Result Was Announced as 14-10.

Times Special WASHINGTON, May 3.—The strange and sudden Pigeonholing of the Hatch bill by the House Judiciary Committee became even stranger today. It was announced after the Committee’s meeting Wednesday that the bill had been tabled by a vote of 14 to 10. But today, when the Committeemen were questioned individually by Seripps-Howard reporters, 13 of them. said they had voted against tabling. Since the vote was taken]

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men told Rep. John J. Dempsey (D. N. M)), co-sponsor of the bill, that they had voted against tabling. He declined to name them The votes, which were deposited Wednesday in the well-worn hat of Judge Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.), chairman of the committee, were counted by two tellers, Rep. W. S Guyer (R. Kas.) and Rep. Zebulon Weaver (D. N. C..

Recount Is Asked

“I am sure the tellers are men of integrity,” Rep. Dempsey said in the House, “It must have been an honest error.” He asked for a recount—and the House tittered. Rep. Abe Murdock (D. Utah), a member of the committee, said he would seek a recount at the committee’s meeting Tuesday. Meanwhile, Mr. Dempsey is filing a discharge petition with the Speaker todav to force the bill before the

House for a public vote. The peti-]

tion requires 218 signatures. The 13 committeemen who said they voted against tabling the bill were: DEMOCRATS (4)—Celler (N. Y),, Murdlock (Utah), Tolan (Cal), Massingale (Okla.) . REPUBLICANS (9) — Hancock (N. Y.), Michener (Mich.), Robsion (Kv), Reed (Ill), Gwynne (Iowa), Graham (Pa.), Monkiewicz (Conn.), Springer (Ind.), Vreeland (N. J.) The four who said they voted to table the bill were: DEMOCRATS (3)—Weaver (N. C.). Satterfield (Va), Kefauver {Tenn.) REPUBLICAN 1) ron (Mass.)

Seven Democrats Silent The seven who declined to say how they voted were all Democrats These included Chairman Sumners,

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Probers Declare He Spent | $1,500,000 in Union Dues On Own Orders.

CHICAGO, May 3 (U. P)— George Scalise, deposed president of the Building Service Employees | Union, who is under indictment on

charges of extortion, spent more {than $1,500,000 of his union's funds 1 his own order, preliminary in- | vestigation of records showed today. | William G. Crawford, Assistant | State's Attorney in charge of a Grand Jury investigation of Sca- | lise's activities from Jan. 1, 1935, to | April 30, 1940, said that the records had been examined by himself and two assistants to District Attorney | Thomas E. Dewey of New York City, who obtained the indictment against the labor leader last week.

| $1,800,000 Received

{ Mr. Crawford said that review of the records had shown that the union had received $1,800,000 in (dues from its members—charwomlen, window washers, elevator operators and janitors—during three years, but that there was only $92,000 in the treasury now. | Among the expenditures listed, he said, was $122,400 for maintenance of Chicago headquarters of the in- | ternational, the New York office where Scalise made his headquarters |and for dues to the American Fed{eration of Labor The remainder was spent as Sca(lise saw fit, Mr. Crawford said. These expenditures included $78,400 {for his own salary during 1939, monthly expense accounts that ran well into three figures and traveling {expenses of $19,000 between May 1, (1937, and April, 1940.

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who is reported to have cast no vote | x Salt Was indicted ab New York AR y : April 24 on counts charging that at all, and Rep. Edward W. Creal Be had Fret a ore oe a (D. Ky.), who made the motion to cleaning contractors to pay money table. The others: Healey (Mass.),| ynder threats. He was suspended, Hobbs (Ala), Byrne (N. Y.), Barnes py the union last Friday and re(Ill). Gibbs (Ga.). | signed his leadership of the 70,000 Rep. Francis E. Walter (D. Pa.) members the next day. could not be reached for comment;| Mr, Dewey's assistants came to! it was he who headed the subcom-| Chicago to confer with the State's mittee which approved the bill. The | Attorney's office because the union €ommittee’s 26th member, Rep.| maintained headquarters here. Chief Charles F. McLaughlin (D. Neb.),| Justice John Prystalski of the Crimdid not vote | inal Court issued a subpena for all The mysterious reversible voting| letters, check stubs, bank statein which at least three members ap- ments and auditors’ reports for the

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parently indulged — against the Eatch bill when balloting in the comfortable privacy of Hatton Sumners’ hat, but for the Hatch bill when questioned for the newspapers —is no doubt connected with the pregnant fact that this is an election year. The Hatch bill would inconvenience some state machines, by forbidding state employees paid with Federal funds to engage in politics. But an avowed vote against the bill might be political poison.

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“Judge” Sumners, as the emin-|

ent Constitutional lawyer who heads

the Committee is known to his col- |

|five-year period at the request of {the Grand Jury. |

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the judge had attended to all de- explaining the conflict between the

tails. He had his stenographer pre-| official vote and the statements to | pare the ballots, neat little slps| reporters, was that the committee with “yes” written on one-half and| jn a preliminary ballot voted against | “no” on the other. The members| tabling, 13 to 11, and then on a sec- | had only to destroy one-half and|ond ballot voted 14-10 for tabling. | drop the other into Mr. Hatton's Thus a member could conceivably hat. | persuade himself that he was honSome members who object to such | est in telling reporters he voted for] secret business protested, but got the Hatch bill, though on the real nowhere | test he helped to vote it down. So. members were able to emerge| That's known to the trade as a! from the committee room, wrap | white one, their mantles of statesmanship| about them and say with that dig-| nity of which only the politician is| capable: ‘Sorry. sion. A gentleman's agreement. I am honor bound——" etc. But not all members accepted the | pledge to secrecy. Rep. Michener | (R. Mich.) got up in meeting and! said he reserved the right to tell how he voted. So did Rep. Tolan (D. Cal) And when Rep. Monkiewicz (R. Conn.) asked if that | right would apply to the other] members, Chairman Sumners ruled | that it did Judge Sumners, while apparently | not choosing to vote, did not refrain from talking. And he talks per-| suasively in his Texas drawl. Mem- | pers gathered from his remarks that | he didn't care for the bill. And | when he got through, Rep. Hobbs] (D. Ala) talked a while. He was] frankly against the bill. Mr. Hobbs is one of those who de- | clined to tell how he voted. But] everybody Knows. One suggestion today, by way of

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