Show Round Merry Business Firms Interpret b Bills for l' l lar ar Solons S 4 i I. iBy By Drew Pearson t I WASHINGTON one One ON-One One of th lh lobbies in Washington ton is ish h the thee Am T Enterprise association financed i b. b business W which h. h IC h puts a by nutshell U of all al legislation on the desks of ot i abou congressmen every J morning Ob r there is no better way a t to o influence in InOue n lation than b by y interpreting le legislation h I harassed congressman who do do doesn't t T time to stud study every bill for h h TIllS Thus lobby is supported by Rob Rohr rt t past p president resident of the National Assad a Manufacturers and by officials o of T J Manville Chemical Bank and Trust r anty Trust American Steel faun land Steel Chrysler y Bristol Iye stol and Sharpe United Carr Can F Fastener others It al also o ha has th the su support suPPOrt o ot congressmen including Goober Gen Gei Gene of Georgia who claims credit for tor the idea to his Mercer university Eugene Stetson head of the Trust company It was all my idea dea says the congressman who is s one of or them the mi mOlt members of the house i Others who helped inspire the tion lion were Lew Brown head of JOhn JoU vine Baxter Jackson of Chemical and T Trust rust Congressmen Dan Reed Peed of of o York Roy Woodruff of Michigan Michigan- ab late J. J Frederick Richardson the first first finta ager of the thc Washington office Moves Io Into Lobby Capitol Aft Republicans took over congress fa In a a Congressman Dan Reed induced h G GOP 0 P leaders to set up a Coor office supposed to do research for form In nea of congress and financed out of th the t funds Lo and behold Who do j you u thid moved into this key job The rep rep tive of private bus business business J. ness ness-J. J. J Frederick Frederica ardson Hitherto Richardson working on the outside as the re rep p tive five of acknowledged business grou groups now thanks to Congressman Reed he hen right inside the Ule halls of congress aid ard put on the government pay roll roU Pot more Richardson brought with th bin l same men who had been working for tor I American Enterprise association j Came Carne last Novembers November's election ho Eon ho and the victorious Democrats mot moved mared b amazing lobby out Thereupon it it itI I came carne necessary for the American t ti prise association to get some political collaboration They did ti making a deal with the law f firm rm of l sie tary of the Navy John Sullivan a tr trot tria loyal Democrat Sullivans Sullivan's law fim hired to analyze legislation and write writ t daily reports for congressmen 1 J. J Enter Navy y Secretary's Law Firm T secretary of the navy sensitive at j i connection with the lobby is f phatie that he is no longer with a b fi firm I l Lets get one thing clear he hec w when queried I am no longer h b firm My name is not on the sta sUSa a My name is not on the door J f. f Sull Sullivan van admitted however thit if colm calm Hardgrove now Washington fi it i of the lobby had talked t to 1 about various vanous matters Hardgrove is a a aman I Iman man who gets information from spi ex-spi ex Joe Martins Martin's office by occasionally sli IH H 20 to a Negro messenger who plays to the real estate lobby and admit admill t t the he interviews 20 to 50 congressmen i u How well wen do you know Harden the secretary of the navy was as asIve asked Ive seen him three or four tines lima replied J Later the same question was teas 1 p Hardgrove j J John has been a close friend of 1 in years ears he said J But Ent he says he has only seen you 00 t or four times J Well Vell that's true Hardgrove e fun fui Ive just seen him a couple of time timer tri fried frier You mean youve you've been close years and youve you've only seen him a CC a of times I Ir I r can see that were we're not getting where Har Hardgrove grove blurted and hung t It may be significant however howe when the secretary of the navy Hardgroves Hardgrove's office which he dots does time to time he does not ask for Hardgrove nor does he even en u uj Cf 11 asks for forIt forIt w 1 first name Malcolm He It is also significant that Congre Percy Priest of Tennessee a Democrat I that he would not have endorsed endorse American Enterprise association e cepl the Sullivan law firms firm's connection w wi m Priest had used 1 said that Hardgrove f vans van's name in asking him to write a a. a 1 f boosting the association It was thU ter of recommendation plus those b bother by o started J I other Democrats which subscribing to cratic congressmen n lobby's analytical service Copyright 1919 Bell |