PLOT AGAINST NORRIS COSTS THOUSANDS--NYE
PLOT AGAINST NORRIS COSTS THOUSANDS-NYE Chairman of Senate Probe Body Says Stebbins Should Have Confessed Sooner LINCOLN, Nebr.—If William M. Stebbins had admitted he was responsible for the...
...While the Nye committee was holding hearings in Tennessee, on the way to re-open its Nebraska investigation, Stebbins confessed that he was responsible for the plot, and absolved from blame Victor Seymour, western manager of the Republican senatorial campaigns...
...Another witness before the committee was Walter W. Head, president of the Foreman-State National Bank of Chicago, who admitted furnishing Seymour $4,000 for the purpose of taking a poll of Nebraska Republicans...
...Federal loans for Eeed are surrounded by such restrictions that only $43.00O of the allotted $200.000 to Viginia has been actually loanch...
...The Governor says this "must be given to contract requiring a large part of it to be done by machinery rather than by human labor...
...Freight rates on western hay is also declared inadequate because few farmers have the price of this hay...
...The Federal government permits the early use of the...
...Stebbins, who is state treasurer of Nebraska and was the opponent of Senator George W. Norris in the Republican senatorial primary, testified that he had furnished $300 in cash and a bond costing $569 to finance' the campaign of the Broken Bow grocer whose name he hoped to have placed on the ballot and so secure the defeat of Senator Norris by confusing the voters...
...PLOT AGAINST NORRIS COSTS THOUSANDS-NYE Chairman of Senate Probe Body Says Stebbins Should Have Confessed Sooner LINCOLN, Nebr.—If William M. Stebbins had admitted he was responsible for the filing of the candidacy of George W. Norris, Broken Bow grocer, in the Republican primary election, it would have saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars, declared Chairman Gerald P. Nye of the Senate committee investigating election campaigns, which resumed its hearing on the Nebraska primary here last week...
...The"*: reductions will expire Oct...
...BYRdCOMPLAINS OF DROUGHT PLAN WASHINGTON, D. C—Federal aid to farmers who suffer from the drought is inadequate, said Governor Byrd of Virginia in a letter to the Department of Agriculture...
...At the committee's hearing, Mr...
...1931 Federal road money...
...He declared, however, that this straw vote was not intended in any way to defeat the candidacy of Senator Norris...
...The result of the attempted filing of the second George W. Norris was widespread indignation and popular demand that the plot against Senator Norris be thoroughly investigated...
...Although Mr...
...Head is chairman of the board of the Nebraska Power company, he denied Chairman Nye's statement that, opposition to Senator Norris was coming in large measure from the power trust in Nebraska...
...The freight reductions, said the Governor, should not be considered a ratlroRd loss as no hay could be moved if prohibitive rates were not removed...
...Seymour, however, resigned his position following the Norris plot, and left Nebraska for the West...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
