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Show SENATOR LINKED IN RAILWAY DEAL WASHINGTON. Oct Jl (JIV-Senate (JIV-Senate Investigator Introduced evidence evi-dence today that a Mlasourl state senator was tendered $1000 for "services" "ser-vices" following approval by tha Missouri public service commission of an application for permission to purchase control of tha Missouri Pacific railroad by Alleghany corporation. cor-poration. They produced before the senate finance committee a letter to 'Sena, tor Michael Kinney of St. Louis, dated July 14, 1D30. informing tha aenator he would find a check Inclosed In-closed for $1000 "for services in the Allrghany-Missourl Pacific matter.' The Missouri commission approved ap-proved the application in May, 1930. Top Holding Firm Alleghany corporation was tha top holding company for tha Van Bweringen railroad empire. John T. Murphy, general counsel for Alleghany, told tha committee he hud never heard of Kinney or of the fee. A committee Investigator aald Kinney waa chairman of tha Missouri Mis-souri senate committee on municipal and private corporations and waa known as an "Influential" member of the legislature. Murphy said authorization waa ever given to employ anyone In I connection with the appHcatlon be- fore the commission. The application was filed after the stock was purchased, said committee com-mittee investigators who contended the Missouri law required that the application b mada prior to the purchases. Letter Submitted The committee submitted a number num-ber of letters and telegrams which an investigator described as designed de-signed to "influence public opinion" In connection with the application before the commission. The communications com-munications went to mayors, boards of trade and publications." Sidney Kaplan, committee Investigator, Inves-tigator, said it appeared "Alleghany corporation had conducted an active and conscientioua campaign to build up favorable public opinion" looking toward commission approval. ap-proval. Earlier Senator Truman (D., Mo.), acting chairman of the committee, charged tyt the late Van Swerln-gen Swerln-gen brothers had made use of holding hold-ing companies In building their $3 -000.000,000 railroad empire "principally" "princi-pally" to evade atate and federal regulations. Truman's charge followed discovery discov-ery by committee Investigators of a new top holding company superimposed superim-posed on the giant Van Sweringen holdings in 1930. "These holding companies have been used principally for getting round the laws of states and as far as they could to get around the laws of the United States, and that's exactly ex-actly what they did," Truman asserted. |