The Senate Audit Committee today voted $10,000 to be devoted to general investigation of the "lobbying" situation pursuant to an order from the Senate.
It is expected that the money will be devoted to a thorough-going inquiry into the exact reasons why scores of allegedly altruistic and patriotic people devote virtually their whole time to working in Washington for certain legislation.
The Senate resolution charges the "Jobbyists," "that being in Washington and the vicinity, they filch from other than American people more money under the assertion that they legislative influence, than the ive branch costs the Govern.
The committee has been given unlimited authority and their investigations are expected to continue for many months, and some persons go 0 far as to say that the results of their investigations may cause! more scandal than have Jobby investigations in the -past.
As "lobbying" has increased here, there has been a corresponding increasing demand for investigation and regelation of what is declared to be under present conditions sat evil. The present investigation of "big, navy" activities of William B, Shearer may result, it thought, in enactment of legislation compelling "lobbyists" to re-ister their names and employers publicly, Concluding rather rambling testi-many before the Senate Naval Affairs sub-committee which is investigating his "big navy" propaganda as employee of the shipbuilding interests, Mr. William Shearer this afternoon said that Mr. Frank B, Kellogg, when Secretary of State, once "'alied the Bethlehem people on the carpet."
His contacts at the Geneva disarmament conference had prineipally to do with the meeting of nows-Papermen who were assigned to the gathering, he explained.
After he had finished his, work Shearer. ganize patriotic societies Hearst's name. For this he received G.§2,000 a month, plus expenses, Mr. Hearst ended these arrangements, he said, when the present investigation started.
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