Show lobbying in this congress has reached a new high or a new low depending upon your viewpoint view point in numbers regis amount spent and tactics employed to influence legisla tion lion according to a compilation of expenses or expenditures th thus us far lobbyists hobbyists have spent or have at least least reported expenditures of from groups ac cording to congressional quart erly a nonpartisan non partisan orld and accor ate reporting service this is an all ail lle time record As a result the house has passed a bill calling for a joint committee of congress to probe the nn lobbyists hobbyists the aie age measure is is ia pending in the senate and likely will pass objective is twofold two fold foid flotd according to observers here to obtain information on how to strengthen ka the rather loosely drawn lobbying law passed in 1946 and to learn whether or not the lobbyists hobbyists are violating the law many new gimmicks are bein being used to call the attention of congress to the pet measures of the lobbyists hobbyists for instance the nation naion nalon tax equality association association is circulating phony pilo dollar bills bals called a tax free buck buce to call attention of congress to the tax exem exemption eption features of farm operatives the property own ers association used cartoons to fight the rent control law mer ater chant marine veterans seeking draft exemption for seamen sent printed paper bags urging con gress not 01 to leave them holding the bag g even the american arary association used a graham hunter ca artoon 0 reprinted crafa crata the southern oun agriculturalist A gT urging federal funds to buy mope mode more bookmobiles book mobiles eres there ores as a lobby In tion tn in 1941 led by sen joseph c 0 OMah 1 maho ney oncy of wyoming c chairman of the temporary na economic committee which ch were I 1 incorporated 10 in the giitl anti antl lobby law the last big probe of lobbying was made m ade by sen hugo black of alabama supreme court justice in to 1938 senator blacks c om corn was ws appropriated 62 for its probe probo during consid cration rati rail n of th the public utility H holding company act of 1935 the investigation revealed that more than was ws spent on a campaign to defeat the act according to information here the department of commerce under secretary charles sawyer I 1 is epli komg g to 10 bat dailor fo for the ine s small smail all ail busi bust dusil dusi ness 53 ma man n and will win go to bat for him before the senate committee c 6 hearing evidence d on n price spreads of farm produce the department is conducting a 1 I series AS of surveys include lin freight shipments one involve of paper to small smail town newspapers according to results of of these lt some lla J surveys au the farmer and th the tho 0 small town business man have the same idea about what is in store in the mediate future both are cautious 1 the tt farmer f Is buying 1 1 he has to buy and the businessman tile is iroc stocking ncy nry only what he bas has to stock to keep up with his trade both expecting price drops where the farmer ge gets t s squeezed however accord ing to the survey is i that price of farm produce is dropping faster than prices of things he hc must buy probably the best indication of the trend is that prices of farm land are falling falline there is little land moving but the gen crai cral 1 con census 1 l ls Is r ala that when i jh the S levelling develling off period comes con in the rural areas and home mo towns will bo be generally iiii illi 1111 economically acono m flauy As this Is written the my drive started by sen robert A taft of ohio wit with some democratic suppo headed beaded by sen harry byrd of virginia has been stalled aff succeeding in re committing several ap measles for a horizontal five per ent cent cut clit the senate reversed itself f and brol brot the tho bills back b by y a close vote oo 00 to date there is an increase in appropriation boea roca in the senate over the arri lounts counts which came from the bouse house ouse some democrats acceding to ob servers here feel fee that thai thal too dras tic economy firlit cause more political reverberations in 1950 than over spending or the tight budget arct as it is up rath cr er than slash dom doW domestic i ii estic i expendi expends tures the cuts ky y come in the aut d ECA and other mner authorized for foreign loreign di ia i 1 tures 1 then these say at this time there 14 a cal aspect to the nat pat national rational ional acono my which must be seriously con si sider dered cd they corl cori tend tha that t any drastic slash slush in governmental expenditures 04 0 the 0 dor front at this t ti roe roc c might start st ar t cuts all along the hine fine line and real re a ly touch off a die depression mpr assion for fori instance the tho 16 lapping coping ap pp ng off of employee employees jn in the veter adminis tion coming just when it atil di observers say had a bad Ps psychological 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