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The Commoner.
AUGUST 16, 1012
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WASHINGTON NEWS
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Following is a special dispatch to
tho Chicago Record-Herald: Nor
man E. Mack of Buffalo, chairman of
tho democratic national committee
during the last campaign, who testi
fied before Senator Clapp's com
mittee, said in an interview subse
quent thereto:
"Instead of 25,000 contributors to
the fund of $G00,000 which tho na
tional committee had in 1908 there
were more than 100,000 contribut
ors. Tho .average contribution was
approximarely $G. A fund of $1,
000,000 gathered in small sums,
ranging from $1 to $10 each, is far
more valuable to the managers of a
campaign than a fund twice as large
would be if collected from a few
corporations and wealthy individuals.
"The reason for this belief is that
$1,000,000 is an ample fund for all
legitimate expenses of a national
campaign."
When Mr. Mack was testifying be
fore the senate committee investi
gating campaign funds of 1904 and
1908 Chairman Clapp asked 'him
who were the largest contributors' in
the 1908 campaign.
"The largest was Mr. Murphy';" re
plied Mr. Mack-. " "He contributed
$10,000. Senaldr Clark of Montana
contributed $2,000 to the Chicago
headquarters, and' I think about $2,
000 to the New York headquarters
Several people offered' funds, but
they were refused:."
- s "Why wore Ih'ey refused?" asked
Senator Jones.
"You probably suspect why," re
turned Mr. Mack. "Mr. Bryan had
said Jie did not 'want contributions
Xrorjicorporations. Colonel Guffey
offered "$5;W0; he said it was the
first time he had not contributed. It
was reported he represented the
Standard Oil."
Mr. Mack added that after Mr.
Bryan had been defeated, he, as
chairman, accepted the contribution
of Colonel J. M. Guffey.
"That is the' only instance where
Ii, accepted money from a source
where Mr. Bryan did not want it,"
explained Mr.- Mack. "I did not
think I was betraying Mr. Bryan's
confidence by getting money to pay
bUls."
The official report of expenditures
which the committee filed at Albany
in conformity with the New York
state law, Mr. Mack said, was cor
rect and covered every dollar con
tributed. J
After Mr. Mack's testimony the
committee adjourned indefinitely.
An Associated Press dispatch gays:
Senator La'Follette had but fivepro
gressives behind him when he forced
through the senate the compromise
wool tariff bill, representing the
agreement witlr the house between
the rates of the La Follette and
Underwood bills. They are Senators
Bristow, Clapp, Crawford, Gronna
and Works. Tho measure, which
had passed the house, passed tho
senate by a vote of 35 to 28; and as
soon as signed by the proper officers
will follow the steel bill to the White
house.
An, Associated Press dispatch says:
The absolute divorcement of the
ownership of railroads and indus
trial organizations were declared by
Representative Stanley of Kentucky
in the house as the only preventive
of such monopoly as he described
the United States Steel corporation
to be. Mr. Stanley spoke for an
hour and a half, reviewing the work
of tho special committee which in
vestigated the steel trust for several
months. When he began, less than
a scoro of representatives wore
present. Representative Clino of
Indiana presided.
The speech was a review of tho
report which was recently submitted
for tho majority of tho committee.
It was an elaborate excoriation of
J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller
and others who have figured in
financing the steel industry. Mr.
Stanley was frequently interrupted,
and several of hia assertions of facts
were challenged by Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts, republi
can, who prepared the minority re
port in opposition to the majority
report.
Tho Kentucky representative re
viewed the story of J. D. Rockefel
ler's acquisition of the Mesaba iron
ore range. Ho told picturesquely of
tho manner in which Mr. Rockefel
ler's almoner, the Rev. Dr. Gates,
conducted the negotiations with the
Merritt brothers, discoverers of tho
range. He asserted that $400,000
was the price which Rockefeller paid
for property which he afterward sold
for $80,000,000 for stock of the
steel corporation.
"Was not the statement of Leoni
das Merritt on the transaction with
Rockefeller retracted?" asked Mr.
Gardner.
"It wns," answered Mr. Stanley,
explaining that Merritt signed a re
traction when a' settlement was made
"With his brother for $400,00,0.
Representative Gardner asked Mr.,
Stanley if this portion of tho story
of steel was not struck from the re
port by the other majority members.,
Mr. ataniey said it was, and -that he
told it on the floor to get it to the
house.
"Tho gentleman should not convey
the impression that it was not made
public," said Mr. Gardner. "Every
newspaper in the country printed it
when the testimony was given."
"Oh, the newspapers are printed
today and lost tomorrow. I want to
get it in the imperishable records,"
said Mr. Stanley.
The Kentucky representative traced
the growth of the steel trust through
its processes and described how An
drew Carnegie had forced it to buy
him out by threats of competition.
He said Carnegie was not afraid of
Morgan or the Moore banking syndi
cate. "Mr. Carnegie paid more attention
to making steel billets than to issu
ing bogus bonds," he said. "He was
an ironmaster, not a stock broker
and a high class gambler."
The holding company and tho
protective tariff were pointed to as
the bulwarks of the steel trust's
strength. Tho holding company was
described as a "pernicious device"
and the formation of the steel trust
was termed a "scheme that exceeded
the dream of the most avaricious
scheme-maker- that ever lived."
Mr. Stanley declared that the steel
trust levied a tax on every man, wo
man and child In tho United States.
"Every one of the 80,000,000 of
people in this country pays to the
steel trust to live, labor and finally
when they die," Bald the speaker.
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The house of representatives
passed Sulzer's bill for a .national
department of labor with a secretary
having a seat-in the cabinet.
An effort will be made in the sen
ate to appropriate $25,000 to re
imburse former Senator Lor.iraer for
his expenses in defending Himself.
The United States senate rhas is
sued a warning to tho nations of the
world against encroaching upon tho
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continents of North and South
America. Tho United States will
not see, "without grave concern,"
said tho senate, any suitable naval
or military sito pass into control of
a foreign corporation, when such
possession "might threaten tho com
munications, or tho safety of tho
United States." So vital wero tho
IssueB discussed in tho Lodge resolu
tion, which set forth tho policy of
tho United States as to points situ
ated like Magdalena bay, in Lower
California, that the doors of the
senate were closed for three hours,
while the resolution was debated In
secret session. It finally passed with
only four votes against it. Notwith
standing the comparative unanimity
of the senate upon the note of warn
ing, it is understood the measure did
not have the official indorsement of
tho administration. It was framed
entirely outside the state depart
ment, and it is understood the ex
ecutive branch of the government
was not consulted with regard to the
senate'fl pronouncement.
Democrats In the house have
effected a compromise by agreeing to
make appropriations for one new
battleship instead of two;
An Associated Press dispatch says:
The Panama canal administration
bill, providing free passage to
American ships; prohibiting railroad-owned
vessels from using the
waterway, and authorizing the estab
lishment of a one-man government
when the canal Is completed, was
passed by the senate by a vote of
lorty-seven to nrteen.
Tho provision for free tolls which
was fought in the senate was in
dorsed again just before the' passage
of the measure. Attached to the bill
as It passed the senate were two im-
portant amendments directed at
trust or railroad control of steam
ship lines. The first, by Senator
Reed, would prohibit ships owned
by an illegal industrial combination
from using the canal, and the second,
by Senator Bourne, would force rail
roads to give up water lines that
might otherwise be their competi
tors, If It were proved that they were
stifling competition.
President Taft Is surely a stand
patter. An Associated T"ress dispatch
says: For the second time within
a year president Taft vetoed a bill
to revise tho wool tariff Schedule K
of the Payne-Aldrich law. With a
messago of disapproval tho president
returned ,to congress tho bill evolved
as a compromise between tho house
and senate, holdinc that its low rates
would bring disaster to home indus
tries. He appealed to congress,
however, not to adjourn until it had
enacted a measure to "substantially
reduce unnecessary existing duties"
without destroying protection for tho
wool industry in the United States.
Tho president's disapproval of the
wool bill is to be followed with simi
lar vetoes of the steel bill and the
cotton bill. The sugar bill Is likely
to bo vetoed, as is the excise tax
bill, the latter probably on the
ground that tho president believes it
unconstitutional.
"I shall stand by my pledges to
maintain a degree of protection
necessary to offset tho differences in
cost of. production hero and abroad
and will heartily approve of any biil
reducing duties to this level," wrote
Mr. Taft.
While the bill vetoed and the one
disapproved last year were identical
in terms, the president's reasons dif
fered. He vetoed the former bill be
cause it had been framed before the
tariff board's report the latter be
cause he said it had been framed
with disregard for the board's find
ings. . r . - ,
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