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Show MEASURE TO GUBTAIL CIPTOEiES McKay Introduces Bill Providing Pro-viding for Strict Accounts by Candidates. REGULATION IS STRICT Matter Printed in Ne ws-papers ws-papers Must Be Plainly Marked Advertising. Striff regulation of campaign cx-piMiSfs cx-piMiSfs by imliviiiu.-iLi nnrl committees ii provide. I in honso liiil No. 9I, intro-dncrrl intro-dncrrl in tlio Iiousrt of rr-prcsontiitivca yesterday liy Repn sentiitive D. IJ. McKay Mc-Kay of Weber. Tho liill liniitn I ho purpoNPS for which ramiiilates may ppernl money in behalf of thuir eniididacy, and requires tho making of linancial statements of personal per-sonal and party campaign committees, nrl provides tin; method of prosecutiug tlioso who violate thi' aid. ft. is provided that no enndidato may makn rtirlii rsi-mciita for political purposes pur-poses except under his persona direction, direc-tion, through a party committee or through n personal campaign committee, commit-tee, which he is authorised to select. A candidate may select a single personal campaign committee consist nig of one or more persons, hut ho is required to file a public statement giving the names of such committee. No person or group of persons may niako disbursements for political purposes pur-poses except through a personal or party conunitteo save for rental of halls, hiring hir-ing of speakers, and expenses attached to such meetings. A candidate may Icgallv disburse money for his. hotel and traveling expenses, ex-penses, payments to the state required ny law. contributions to his registered personal campaign committee, contributions contribu-tions to his party committee.' A party committco may expend money legally for maintenance of hoadquar-lers, hoadquar-lers, rentals of halls, stationery, clerical cleri-cal assistance, badges, banners, posters and the like, campaign advertising in new j-r.r and expenses of 'ari!;,;ii:i ,j e r.-, and traveling ex-peii-i- (,r meiiiL'Ti of party or personal 'a;n j .'I i L'ri commit! e.-v. All Li:'s in r-et ion with campaigns are r:'i,i;'ed to be r'-reie.-ed wi'.hin ten lavs aKT the day ot election. Statements of expenditures by commit com-mit t'-es are reiiiiiix-.i in itemi.ed form every t,0 weeks. Tee reports must show every sum received re-ceived ami disbursed, the person received re-ceived from ar.d the person to whom paid. blanks for siu-h statements are required to bo famished by the eecre-tarv eecre-tarv of state through the filing officers offi-cers of the various political subdivisions of government and these after being tilled out must be filed with the respective re-spective filing officers. Jt is provided that the name of any candidate chosen at a primary or otherwise oth-erwise shall not be printed on the official of-ficial ballot until all statements of account ac-count and expenses shall have been properly filed. Soliciting Unlawful. It is provided that every person who shall make disbursements for political purposes of more than SoO in any year shall file) the statement of such disbursements dis-bursements with the county recorder of his county, setting forth in detail the disbursements made. It is made unlawful to solicit any contributions from candidates or committees com-mittees except for personal campaign or party campaign committee purposes. It is made unlawful to pay for any services ser-vices to be performed on any day of any primary or election in behalf of any citridiniife jsartv or measure, or for the expense for transportation of any voter-to voter-to or from the polls on an election day. Printed publications of political matter in newspapers orotherwisc are required to be headed in pica capital letters by the words 'Paid advertisement," and thoro must lie a statement at the head of tho matter of the amount paid or to lie paid lor it, the name and address of the candidate in whose behalf the matter is printed, and of any other person per-son authorizing the publication, and the name of the author of the article. It is further provided that no elective elec-tive official shall have an interest in a newspaper or periodical unless he file a statement of his interest in such publication. pub-lication. Must Be Designated. It is made unlawful for any publisher, publish-er, owner, editor or reporter to solicit or reeeivo compensation and unlawful for any person to pay or offer pay for anv matter influencing or attempting to influence voting at any election of primary, pri-mary, except under the heading of "Paid advertisement," as provided by the law. It is provided that all campaign cam-paign literature must disclose the name of the author and the candidate. It is unlawful to make, or publish any false statement regarding any candidate. It is also made unlawful to solicit support through offers of public or private employment em-ployment or through threats of loss of employment. A limit on campaign expenditures is provided as follows: Por United States senator, $7500 ; representative in congress, con-gress, $2500; governor, judge of the supreme su-preme court and state superintendent of schools, $5000; other state officers, $2000; state senator, $400; representative, representa-tive, $150; presidential electors at large, $500 each ; presidential electors for any congressional district, $100 each; county, city or town officer, $25. Investigation of any suspected violation vio-lation of tho law may be had upon petition pe-tition to the courts, attorney general or governor, who may bring about the proper investigation if necessary. Provision Pro-vision is made for hearings and trials to determine such violations. Conviction of a violation is guilt of a misdemeanor and forfeits the office of the person convicted. |