Show SENATE LENDS ENDS il OF ft 4 lJ I Committee Report Finds Questionable Facts I in Record RecordS t r S CD Br PUll WASHINGTON Dec 3 On 3 On find lind- ings of universal disregard for elec- elec tion laws and circumstances indiCating indicating ing fag some fraud Chairman n Hastings of the senate election subcommittee today formally questioned d the validity valid valid- ity ty of the Alabama election which sent John JohnH H H. Bankhead to the senate The Republican senator from Dela- Dela laid a bulky factual tactual report without rec recommendations ons before his committee as it gathered to permit counsel for tor Bankhead and the he contestant contestant contestant con con- former Senator J. J Thomas Heflin to argue disputed points Outstanding conclusions of the he re- re port were That violations by election officials were the rule rather than the exception tion and spread to every voting place examined ELECTION U UNALTERED ALTERED That on the basis of ballots tempo temporarily rily laid aside Hastings' Hastings workers could uld not find that the election result would be altered but other questionable questionable question question- able abl ballots might change this I That Bankhead spent 1500 to 2500 more than permitted by the Alabama disqualifying law candidates candidates' with ex expenditures x- x over That exclusion of all improperly h handled ballots would make determination nation of the wishes of the Alabama majority impossible That among the law Jaw violations by election officials were failure to number num nurn- ber her the ballots in Ink failure to roll rolland rolland and U d seal the ballots breakage of seals oli oa on ballot boxes boxes- voting voting-of absentees as much as 10 years out of the state voting py y y persons not pay their thell poll taxes until long after the legally specified time FRAUD PRESENT Opportunity for tor fraud said Hastings Hastings Hast Hast- ings was ever present and the combination com corn of circumstances would satsy sat- sat sy a reasonable person that some fraud has been committed b The chairman has indicated he Would have some recommendations for fr the committee later in closed ses ses- ses- ses sion slon After this group acts the entire elections committee must study the report and then it will be up to the senate Indications so far have been that Bankhead would be seated next week the contest coming up later Not much has been said about it yet by bythe bythe bythe the senators but Governor Miller of Alabama yesterday observed that Bankhead was bona fide elected mid and should be seated without tl ti tion n. n |