New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1929, Page 11

", : P A [ n L& I ¥ 1 LOBBYING REACHED HEIGHT IN 1870°S Bribery Open Scandal Unde Grant—Nobody Ever Punished BY ROT Y DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, Oct. 24.— vLobbyis in the Grant administrations we often able to recruit the aid of the president himself in furthering their schemes for public plund These lobbyists did not hesitate to attempt to bribe the s r of the House or to offer the vice president L prosperous corporation job to count on r his term expired. It scemed as if naurly every- ne in public life were selling out to the highest bidders and those ed the general “ractice bject to ostracism and po- ack. Cabinet congressmen lesser s willing prey. was used even to obtain pas t 00,000 Alaska Purch ailroads maintained the mest tive lobbies. A correspondent ted that Congress adjourn . leaving the placard on he business of ihis cstablishment will be done hereafter in the office of the 1embers, and innu- officiais were the Bribery > door: * ilroac e Worst of All of the road’ gress. Claud ttorneys ( Dowers, en and defiant of all.” At- torney General Williama re- wded as the Pacific Railroad's own was Mobilier incident, in- rion Pacitic, was one seandals of the time given the Unien T 27,000,000 and 13,000 000 acr Mobilier was t ume of the stock company used to Ik the road of the 1ed it by the Oakes Ames of land. Credit mze subsid ument Col was given listribute among influen- an investigation. v revelations involved President Colfax, Vice Presi- elect Wilson, a senator and the chairmen of the most important House committees, including a fu- turc president, James A. Garficld tacked committee whitewashed Fut in its report. James G. Blaine, one of hed statesmen adly tarred in vears previously helpet the Little ith Rail'oad with . was per- mount of and to Seven who had the road's b 5,000 in keep should have gone to the customers plu: 15 & personal 3 ) brokerage When the road went braie and the bhonds went bad the cultomers be came incensed and the commission, imis; Pennsylvania | ira,” says “the lob- | an ever onen and in- f the under eye of To ott, the of Congress s a pre- | the b ‘ Suddenly three railroads, includ- | ods, noted that ‘she will flare up ing the Union Pacific, bagun o buy | at a mere glance of curiosity from |up the Little Rock & Fort Smith |a stranger, and pardon s Kiss red- |bonds. It was charged that they|hot on the lips from a man who has | were saving Blaine's neck in re-|a vote. . . . The lever of lust is| |turn for his great legislative in- used to pry up more legislators to | fluence. Tom Scott, the Union Pa- | the sticking point when money u.{ cific’s chief iobbyist, was an im- | 5elf does not avail to seduce.’ That | | portant figure in the deal. The | there was not little blackmailing we | Yacts damaged Blaine volitically | MAY be sure. . . . | and probably kept him from the| “The industrialists had marched | presidency. en masse upon the capital—iron, | Dresident Grant's name figurea | €04k steel, wool, leather—in the {in Jay Gould's attempt o corner | Making of the tarif¢ act that year.” | the gola | ing it had der | ashion. G market. Instead of leav- a lobbyist, Goutd himself ed Grant in royal nt often lelped the to enter speculators and lobbyists. When | group of spec waz demand- | ing that we 0 Domingo, | Grant went | If to the Capitol | and lobbied senators for an- nesation. He accepted gfts from men who > lable f always He gres: tion, and h fishin, ward A in-law was | rupt | John | ized | the last ten ye lto these roo someone wr e Many were the meals and hottles of |V, wines which lobbyists pought for Thi Mark the central character of which was a be vamp! cel of ing perfectly respectabis business| | organizations in pursuit of privi-| 1 N¢ ilepe,” says Bowers. ‘‘Attractive 1’1;‘ 2 | fashionably dressed, and dashing | o0 were these women of the most dar- | ing lobby that had ever Jescended lon a legislative body fos purposecs | of pelf. . The more audaclous | | took pretentious houscs as for a | social | duchesses of the tribe, ws | 100k altogether | most | iently | bands, bonds which | | partie only way to | impression that, tircd of Uhcir prosy side of the corrupt and opposed to those who protested corruption. | Northern Pacific subsidies to Cooke. Blaine — unc which key ring, railroads ed into his A he: and polit I measure noted supporting | and-mo wine and brandy, but it seductive charms of these s that lured statesmen fo their were here to se.k prof favors and privileges. He ne appeared 1o He on th personally lobbied for | pove” Jay bribed some con- others — including er financial obliga- maintained a powerful lobby included state governors 1ad invited the president on £ trips. Grant had his re- in 1 when the corrupt and othe poured money Cooke moved men, had placed busines port pointed the con industries pa R. Cor! nother- utility and an : te of Gould, for cor- assoc notorious lobbyist bills. busines lobbyists was| gy restaurant, patron- | all the statesmen "here is not a importance in but can be traced lquarters of Welcher's by nearly cians. should for didates sented senators. ss le The that a T which | Age,” s was the period in Twain set “The Gilded autiftul girl lobbyist who ed the leaders of Congress into the purchase of a par- Tennessee land for a fabu- person rectly bution ‘lflm in vith ladies MeNd epresent- swarmed nt morality, Recommendation th o state's water power problem be re-| 4 by economic lustrial Holding development football primarily the report said in part. neither by office nor by the companies cngaged in furnis appointed state to NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929 avoid exposure for Blaine was to | husbands, they were ready for a ro- take back the bonds and relmburse | mantic Interlude. . . uyers. | correspondent, studying her WATER POWER T0 LEAVE POLITICS Gommission Recommends Busi- ness Leadership for Resources York, “entirely from in the har s interests” the politic committee of April by the congress last to con and economic nmonwealth. that the question 1 for political companies for probl water ess problem er power an economic be framed for public ¥ should be framed to the public hy adership of the st report continues commities interested in the producti of power, to all its p 1 or y the a cour action follow e of the s telescope, preser termed by a ich . The cyn s of unbiased made in a r der partic y say on power will he | which will include no| dircetly or al meth- s d in-| sower| Y ¥ r| s and | n which can- prot 1 to recor when L mot- dark- campaign. These, the grand o good to upon, clever conversationalists pleasing, and, while unmarried their God- ality employers had conven- provided them with hus- were Vamping Congre « They smen had abundance on s. 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