| OCR Text |
Show uu HOUSE PLANS LOBBYMNT Washington. July 5. A "lobby" In vestigation by tho house to cover particularly par-ticularly Martin Mulhall's charges that the National Association of Manufacturers Man-ufacturers 'Influenced present and former congressmen," hut broad enough to cover all alleged lobby ac tlvlties before congress, was provided today by aresolution from tho house rules committee. It would direct a committee of scon members appointed appoint-ed by the speaker to inquire whether the National Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers or any other organization, corporation cor-poration or association or person "now maintain or has heretofore maintained a lobby for the puqiosc of and ascertain and report to what extent ex-tent and in what manner if at all, legislation has been improperly affected af-fected or prevented by reason of the existence of said lobby, if it be found to exist at all, now or heretofore," Senators Reed and Walsh after an examination of the mass of Mulhall letters, telegrams and expense accounts, ac-counts, subpoenaed by the senate lobby lob-by committee, have determined lo introduce in-troduce all of the papers as testimony before the committee next week. Every Ev-ery opportunity will be givon to the house to examine the letters. Under a blanket clause In the resolution, res-olution, the house committee would have almost plenary authority to probe all lobbying acthlty, past or present Regarding the specific charges of Mulhall. the resolution provides that the committee shall determine de-termine whether or not the lobbyists "of the National Association of Manufacturers Man-ufacturers or the association did in fact reach or influence, whether for business, political or sympathetic reasons, or otherwise, any representatives represent-atives and if so when, by whom and in what manner." The resolution further provides that the committee shall also iuqulre whether money was used or improper Influenco was exerted by tho National Nation-al Association of Manufacturers or any agent to accomplish the defeat for nomination or election of any candidate for congress, whether members mem-bers of congress have been cmnloved by the association for the accomplishment accomplish-ment of any Improper purpose whatever what-ever and whether improper influence Was GXOrterf bv nilv nnrenn in e.-Kiiro , the appointment or selection of the committee of the house. Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Progressive, reported the res-olution, res-olution, saying the question was whether "this government instead of being by and for tho people has been changed into one by and for dishonest big business " Representative Levy of New York opposed the investigation. "We have had enough investigations." he said. "Thev have caused unrest and depression de-pression in the business world and have caused the depreciation of a billion bil-lion dollars in securities The money trust investigation caused thy deach of one of the great merchants and one of the greatest benefactors In this country." He contended no investigation was necessarj to vindicate the integrity of the house. Republican leader Mann declared hc had neer met a lobbyist in sixteen six-teen ears in the house. He urged the Investigation, however. There was a running fire of speeches speech-es almost all of them in favor of the investigation. Representative Ncoley of , Kansas characterised the testiomny of H. B. Mtrtin before the senate lobby committee com-mittee Thursday as porjim. |
