Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1940 — Page 21

THURSDAY, NOV. 14,

HATCH ACT GIVEN A ‘RUN-AROUND. GILLETTE CLAIMS

Expenditures by Both Par- - ties [Exceeded Limit, lowan Declares.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer - WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.--Sena-tor Guy Gillette (D, Iowa), chairman. of the Senate Committee to

Investigate Campaign Expenditures, expressed a belief today that the Hatch Act had been circumvented by both parties in the recent campaign and urged early Congres- : sional action to plug loopholes in the law. ‘Mr. Gjille tte termed as “fani tastic” | reports that either party had spent more than $20,000,000. |But, he said, h committee as determine there can be little doubt that expenditures by both parties exceeded the $3,000,000 limit set in the Hatch Act.” - The section of the law limiting at $5000 the amount of individual campaign contributions also was circumvented, he said. “There is a section in the law,” he explained, “which exempts contributions made to state or local committees or -other organizations, \ and we have ample evidence that

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| some contributors took advantage

lof this by making contributions of $5000 or less to party units aside from the National Committees.” Under such an interpretation. Senator Gillette pointed out, it ‘would be possible to make | contributions up to $5000 to each of 48 state committees. While state and local officeseekers would | benefit from this, he said, indirect benefits also would come to the national ‘ticket, Seek Tighter Law

“Our committee,” he . asserted, “undoubtedly will make | recommendations to have the law tightened in these respects.” He added that conferences probably would be held with Senator Carl Hatch (D. N. M.), sponsor of the elections reform legislation, when: Mr, Hatch returns to Washington next, week. Senator Gillette said he also was

attempting te find means of legis- |

lating eftectively against ‘“seurrilous and vicious” literature aimed at stirring racial and religious prejudices in elections. [Such literature was used: “more than ever before” in the recent election, he said. He remarked that in [Senator Hatch’s view the spirit of ithe law is that $3,000,000 is the limit on all funds collected or disbursed in behalf of a Presidential candidate. The law actually sitpulates that $3,000,000 shall be the limit Spen

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by any political committee, however, and thus, Mr. Gillette said, each of many committees active in a Presidential election could spend up to this amount. The committee has had before it representatives of 15 to 20 committees aside from the Republican and Democratic National Committees, some supporting President Roosevelt and others supporting Wendell Willkie. Most of them had been advised by counsel that they could collect and spend up to $3,000,000 each. ! Mr. Willkie expressed a wish

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early in this campaign that total expenditures by all his supporters be limited to $3,000,000. Senator Gillette said that apparently only two groups—the Associated Willkie Clubs and the Committee of Democrats for Willkie—had cleared their pfinancial reports through the Republican National Committee, Similarly, the Senator said, the Norris-La - Guardia Independent Committee for President Roosevelt did not clear through the Democratic National Committee. Neither did the National Committee for Agriculture, an organization support-

ing the President.

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OKLAHOMA. COUPLE WED FOR 75 YEARS

MARLOW, Okla., Nov. 14 (U. P.).

—Seventy-five years ago, in September, 1865, a: young Civil War soldier and a Tennessee girl four years his senior were married. Recently, James R. Arnn, now 94, and Mrs. Arnn, 98, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary at a party with a few relatives and friends. “W’ve had a happy life,” Mr. Arnn said, “probably because I never fuss with her.”

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