| Show lu S. S PAYROLL RACKETS DUE fOR CURBING Disclosure of House Records Expected to Bring Enactment Enactment Enactment En En- of Law RELATIVE LIST SHRINKS April Rolls Show Haste by Sol Solons OilS to Trim Stipends By fly y RA RAYMOND Y CLAPPER United Tress Iress Staff start Correspondent WASHINGTON May 21 21 Disclosure sure SUle of the house p payroll l roll showing a large number of relatives carried on the congressional pa payroll roll is expected to increase pressure for enactment o oa of ofa a law to forbid the practice Chairman Lindsay Warren of th the house louse committee on accounts ha has promised a hearing on the bill of or Representative J. J R R. Mitchell 1 Democrat Tennessee Owing Owing Ow Ow- ing ng to the standing long-standing opposition o ot of house louse members to such restrictive legislation and the short time before the political conventions this measure measure meas meas- ure is not expected to reach a vote vole However the bill has been vigorously vigorously vigor vigor- supported in numerous letters letter from rom constituents s. Some believe ve that tha eventually congress will be forced to follow the example of or numerous states and abolish employment o of relatives The civil service act forbids employment em era- of or more than two of one family amily in the executive departments yet a 11 number of congressmen were disclosed to be carrying two others of their families on the payrolls as their heir clerks Inspection of or the rolls even fails to disclose the full rull extent of the family payroll racket bec because luso of the many laws in whose dissImilar lar ar names do not reveal them SHOW SHRINKAGE The April payrolls show a heavy shrinkage in the number of congressmen congress congress- men who placed relatives on their clerk hire rolls The Kansas delegation delegation tion ion for shows only Representative Sparks Republican Republic ln with witha a son on His illS daughter in also has las been employed Yet Representative lire ive Lambertson Republican ln who h has las ls no relatives showing now formerly for tor- merly had his wife and daughter on his list lisL Representative McGugin Republican Republican Re Re- publican dropped his wife wiCe within the thelast thelast last ast year Representative Strong Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican had a son law on as a 01 committee ommittee clerk Of or the Nebraska delegation only two wo Representative Howard Democrat Demorat Demo Demo- crat rat and Representative ger cr Republican show with relatives Last June however Representative forehead Morehead was as employing an nn M SM l Morehead forehead Mrs Morehead's given name being Minnie She has been dropped since then In Ohio Representatives Brand and Cooper Republicans and Fiesinger FiesInger ger and Crosser Grosser Democrats carry relatives Brand carries two relatives Last year ear Representative West Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat listed his wife as ns a clerk S Similar milar shrinkage is noted In many other dele delegations f The list of congressmen whose cm- cm Continued on Pare Paco Two I I GRILLED IL r L. L Harry M. M I Warner U. U S. S PAYROLL RACKETS DUE FOR CURBING Continued From Froni Pate Page One relatives bear the family name still sti totals about 10 despite the reductions reductions re that have taken ten place recent recent- ly A large number of laws in can be detected only through personal in inquiry quI and ad private information ROLL MADE PUBLIC The Te house payroll was wa officially made public by unanimous adoption of a resolution by Chairman Warren of the accounts account committee He sought this his action acton when a fellow elow congressman congress ma man Representative Mitchell Michel attempted at at- tempted to see the house houe records and was refused permission by the clerk cerk of the house houe who said it it would be unethical to show them Inspection of the original records also disclosed that when the lists lit were published in the past past after ater they had been beer obsolete for six months the names of congressmen had been care carefully care h fully ruBy deleted from the list of so s that it i was wa impossible except by individual inquiry to ascertain b by whom clerks cerk were employed Following is is a partial list of congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen whose relatives bear the family name Arentz Republican lican Nevada Albert E. E E Carter Republican Republican Re Re- Re publican California Colton Colon Republican Republican lican Utah Curry Republican California California Cali Cali- Cal fornia foria Englebright Republican Call Cal fornia roria Hill Hm Democrat Washington Loofbourow Republican Utah Uth Osias Philippines Wickersham Alaska Alaska All Al told congressmen are on the list lt |
