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Show EXEMPTIONS IN CIVIL BILL LOBBY'S WORK Secured by Federation of Labor Through Gompers, Says Senator Smith. PROPER LOBBY HAS RIGHT IN CAPITAL Everybody Lobbies, Even any Temperance People, De-dares De-dares Senator. WASHINGTON, June 17. Senator William Aldan Smith of Michigan d eland before tba senate lobby Investigating Inves-tigating committee today that the clause in the sundry civil bill, now awaiting President Wilson's signature, exempting labor unions and farmers ' organisations from prosecution under the Sherman antitrust law, represented th work of a lobby. Tha American Federation of Labor, be declared, bad lobbied for the exemptions, ex-emptions, although Bamuel Gompers, the senator said, had admitted to him that it was class legislation, a term former President Taft applied in vetoing veto-ing the bill last spring. "The very bill on the preeident's. ileek this morning," be said, "was put through by a lobby of labor organizations. organiza-tions. They know there is class legislation legis-lation In it. Samuel Gompers admitted to ma It was class legislation, and that is the kind of lobby 1 think exists. Many Lobbies in Capitol. "Of course, the Americsn Federation of Labor has a lobbv here. I don 't condemn it. Thev have a right to be here. So have the sugar people anil Ibe steel people and the others. 1 think there is a verv considerable lobby here; there always has been and always will be and I think It is appropriate and has a right to be here. "In everything I have done here I have encountered the lobby. It doesn t ,in mm anv harm. I encountered it in the Titanic investigation and the Mex-gr Mex-gr ican revolution. They are here and they have a right to be here." Senator Smith said he knew John Nor-risof Nor-risof the " newspaper people " had been here for free print paper. "He was for it and I was against it," said the senator. "I oven- a papri but 1 more of a protectionist than a newspaper news-paper man.'1 He added that tbe temperance tem-perance people had maintained a lobby in Washington. Not Always Odious. "You don't attach any odious significance sig-nificance to the lobby, do you I" asked Senator Watsb. . "I do not. It is obstinate and often unwise, but these people have a right to be here and be heard." Senator Smith said he approved of the use of . influence bv presidents. He said that everv president since Cleveland had undertaken to influence legislation, and added that if he had bees in the White House he would have done the same thing. |