Show Merry MerrY Round Merry Go Round Trade Mark Mare MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and nd nJ ROBERT ALLEN llEN WASHINGTON Administration WASHINGTON Administration J lobbying in inthe inthe inthe the halls of congress may have been under fire more vigorously than in previous years but it is I not new It has has' been practiced by every administration Democratic or Republican Without it the legislative legisla legisla- tive machine hine could It is p particularly particular particular- ly necessary in a form of government in which members of ot the cabinet do not serve as members of the legislative branch as as in Europe Therefore it has come to be a fact that the administration most successful in lobbying through its program on Capitol hill is m mst most st successful in m everything else Hoover began the system of having a special White House secretary to act as lobbyist on the Hill Roosevelt has has' continued it His lobbyist is Charles W West st a brain truster wit with a ad d difference v West Vest began to imbibe brain trust intellectuality intellectual intellectual- ity at the age of 21 when he hc was app appointed inte vi vice e consul at Naples and attended the University of Naples on the s side de After that he taught at Harvard Harvard Haryard Har Har- vard yard Deni Denison on university and arid Tufts jumping into the tumble rough-and-tumble of congress straight from the cloistered life of the campus For two terms he made a brilliant record his only mistake be being being be- be ing to run for the senate against that sagacious d cigar chewing former Governor of Ohio Honest Vic Vie Donahey Last winter when Roosevelt began get getting gelling ling into hot water as a result of Old Guard sabotage e and Marvin MacIntyre bu drafted West as his lobbying agent on Capitol Hill There he did such a good job th that t he has been rewarded with the position of u undersecretary t ry of interior Ben Cohen Spotlight Mo Most t spotlighted congressional agent of Shenew the She new deal dear recently is Ben Cohen ohen whose presence at the conferees' conferees meeting on the holding corpora- corpora ti n bill caused three ho house se members to walk walkout out Cohen is lis one of the m most st active figures in inthe inthe inthe the new deal Working with his close friend Tom Corcoran he has been behind more important legislation legislation legislation leg leg- than any other member of the administration adminis He began with the securities act This was drafted during four da days s and four nights while he was locked up in a room in the Carlton Canton hotel shortly after fter Roosevelt elt was inaugurated In Inor or order cr to ensure that he would not be tempted to interrupt in interrupt interrupt in- in his endeavors Cohen sent his one suit to the cleaners cleaner with instructions not to bring it back before four days Coauthor of the act was Jim Landis now a member of the securities exchange commission At Atthe Atthe the very end the two authors disagreed ed Landis packed his bag and walked out leaving Cohen to finish the bill by himself It now now stands as the law of the United States I almost as it came from Cohens Cohen's pen Army and Navy Attached to the house naval affairs committee is Commander Isaac C. C Bo Bogart art He was taken from the retired list and assigned to the commit commit- tee He is paid by bythe the navy His duties are not great however due to the fact that the president is the navys navy's best lobby lobbyist st st. When the navy wants anything from congress these days F F. D. D R. R sees that his pet iet department gets it Attached to the senate military affairs committee committee com corn is Captain Sam Greenwell astute modest lobbyist for the war var department He is is is' paid by th the thc army and spends all his time with the committee com corn com Legislative expert of the interior department is js baldish brilliant Rufus G. G Poole 32 time one-time law student under German Professor Ernest Freund As apprentice to Ito his present job Poole drafted tax le legislation for the governor of Illinois Now all interior bills pass through his hands Chester D Davis vis is the thc big lobbying gun gun of the agriculture dep department and an efficient one oneat oneat onet at t that Having been train trained d with tile the farm fann lobby which nearly put through the equalization eq fee and the McNary-Haugen McNary bill bill- Davis can pull bills and senatorial speeches out of his pocket with more legerdemain than almost anyone on the Hill I Self-Lobbyists Self Chief lobbyist for the post office department is big bald Jim Farley himself Rarely does Jim Jin appear on the Hill does most of his work by telephone Jim also does a lot lot lotof of legislative work ark for the president outside of postal matters and in these he relies also on pudgy Emil Hurja and glad hander Bill Howes his first assistant Secretary of Commerce Roper is his own lobbyist lobby lobby- and a good one D Dan n who once served as clerk of at a senate committee knows all the tricks of of the game At present he is doing some heavy axing for the Copeland Bland ship subsidy bill which the president considers a dubious of legislation and which senate progressives thought they had pigeon Madame radam Perkins also is her own chief lobbyist for the labor department With the social security bill and the Wa Wagner ner labor disputes act before congress this session Miss Perkins beat a well- well worn path to the Hill At times she was pulled out of tight holes by Isador Lubin commissioner of lab labor r statistics and by by ASsist Assistant nt Secretary Ed McGrady who wh as time one-time legislative agent of the A. A F. F of L L. knows the congressional ropes as as few other lo lobbyists r C S FERA officials say privately that the leather industry need have no qualms about the huge stock of hides now in possession ot or the government government government govern govern- ment as a result of its slaughter of drouth- drouth stricken cattle last ast year A considerable proportion proportion pro pro- portion of these hese hides they assert arc are of such inferior quality as as' as not to be available for or ordinary ordinary or- or use lOIS br r y United d Syndicate r Inc 4 |