Washington, Apr. 10.
Continuing his assault before the Senate "lobby committee" on the "religious lobby" in Washington, Congressman George H. Tinkham of Massachusettes to-day alleged that the Federal Council of Churches maintained a powerful lobby and he intimated that its contributors were not exclusively church members.
They possibly included, he said, people interested in the furtherance of naval building, international banking and other foreign problems who, under the cloak of religious benefactions, hid efforts to legislate for the good of their own pocketbooks, Mr. Tinkham recalled that Mr. George W. Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's Law Enforeement Commission and chairman of the Committee on International of the Federal interests, especially the powerful Mitsui firm of Japan.
Tt was announced in this conneetion to-day, separately from the committee hearings, that Senator Caraway of Arkansas intended to obtain a list of contributions to the Federal Council of Churches.
Senator Caraway declared the Mr. Wickersham stood in "an absolutely indefensible position." United Press.
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