SENATORS WILL FIGHT SEATING MRS. MCCORMICK
senators will fight seating mrs. Mccormick WomanWho Spent $252,-000 to Win Senate Seat Will Meet Progressive Opposition, Report - (Special to The ¦Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Evidence uncovered...
...McCormick in that body if she is elected this je.ll, according to reports current here...
...In many states, however, nomination by one of the two major political parties Is equivalent to election...
...In 1918 an investigation was made of the campaign of Truman H. Newberry who was elected to the Senate frcm Michigan after expenditures of $195,000 had been made in his behalf...
...In the latter investigation it was charged that there had been much corruption at the polls among election officials and that huge amounts had been used to buy votes...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, chairman of the committee who has been prominent in the committee's investigation of the campaigns of a number of Senate candidates in recent state primaries, is expected to present considerable evidence of unsavory campaign activities of some of these candidates to the coming session of congress...
...Progressives and others in the Senate have in past years strenously fought the seating of winning candidates whose elections and nominations followed the expenditure of large sums of money and where indications of corruption and irregularity in campaigns were present...
...Ruth Hanna Mccormick, winner in the Illinois Republican primary lor nomination to the United States Senate, will lead Progressives and others in the Senate to fight the seating of Mrs...
...The Senate campaign ^expenditures commitee now headed by Senator Nye was created for the first time In 1928 as a special committee to bring evidences of corruption, irregularities, and the excessive use of money in primary and election campaigns to the attention of the Senate...
...Mccormick WomanWho Spent $252,-000 to Win Senate Seat Will Meet Progressive Opposition, Report - (Special to The ¦Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Evidence uncovered by the Senate committee on campaign expenditures concerning the candidacy of Mrs...
...McCormick, previous to the investigations, had reported to the committee that she had personally expended $252,000 in her campaign, and it was found that outsiders had spent an additional $67,000 in her behalf...
...When Senator Nye and the committee sought additional information on Mrs...
...McC«rmlrk also charged that the Senate committee had no right to Investigate the Illinois Rep bl'oan primary but that its only concern w»s with general elections in November...
...In %912 William Lorimer was expelled from the Senate on the charge that he had improperly used money to secure his election by the Illinois legislature, which at that time chose the state's United States Senators...
...Two- similar cases occurred in the election of Frank L. Smith, of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania to the Senate in 1926...
...The Senate declined to allow Smith and Vare their places in that body...
...McCormlck's candidacy in Illinois, she arrogantly defied the committee by hiring private detectives and spies to shadow- members of (he committee in an attempt to discredit their efforts...
...Investigations showed that $459,000 had been expended in the Smith campaign, which included large sums put up by large public utility magnates and in Pennsylvania the sum of $2,777,000 had been used to secure the election.of Vare...
...Newberry was not expelled, but a resolution was passed declaring that he had used an excessive sum of money to secure election...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
