| Show SMITH mm RENEWS mm I STRUGGLE FOR SENATE SEAT CASE ARGUED I I Power Claimed B By Upper Branch of Challenged DEFENSE IS HEARD Insull's Contribution to Campaign Fund Defended WASHINGTON l Jan JanD 29 By 29 D ByThe The Associated The Press Press The right of the senate to exercise the pow pow- power power power er it has bas claimed In determinIng who shall be admitted to Its mem moRn membership as waa challenged before the senate elections elections- committee toda today by by the state ot of illinois and her ber designate senator designate Frank L L Smith Refused the oath of or office pend pend- pendIng pending pending ing a 8 further Inquiry Into the fl- fl financing fi financing of his ils ls primary campaign Smith came before the tha commit commit- committee committee tee teo flanked by hy a notable group or Of legal defenders who argued that Illinois was being deprived with without out warrant of or the tho equal senate representation g her lien bythe by bythe bythe the constitution PLEA SUPPORTED The Tho Illinois attorney general Oscar G 0 Carlstrom J the senator designate to the com corn committee room and the plea that the senate had acted Illegally was supported also by James M Deck ot of Pennsylvania former solicitor gene general rill of or the United States He Hela III 19 one of the lawyers who have Interested themselves on behalf of WIlliam S Vitro Vare o 0 Pennsylvania against whom a campaign expenditures expenditure fight right also is in prospect DeCk Beck laid special emphasis on testimony before the senate cam cam- campaign campaign funds committee that Smith collected no campaign n funds and nd had Instructed hi his man man- manager manager manager ager Alien Allen F Moore loore not to ac- ac accept accept ac accept any arty funds that might be re- re regarded re regarded as bh binding him hint to any per person son or interest KNEW A ABOUT OUT INSULL The attorney conceded that Smith knew th th-it Samuel Insull the tho Chicago public utilities operator contributed to his h campaign but Insull's testimony showed he said that all of ot the he gave gao to Smiths Smith's campaign came from In Insull's In- In Insull's Insull's sull's private funds Surely If It Judge Gary made a contribution to a political cam cam- campaign campaign campaign Beck Deck said it would not follow that the contribution was wa that of the United States Steel cor- cor corporation con cor corporation He lie declared the Illinois corn com commerce I merce merco commission of which I Smith was chairman reduce reduced l rates on Insull's s company in 1923 resulting in a saving of nearl nearly to the he consumers Senator Caraway Democrat Arkansas asked why Clement Studebaker a citizen of Indiana and a public utilities operator of Illinois contributed to Smiths Smith's campaign I have no explanation of or that Deck Beck replied |
