in this act, or to any expenses for postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, expressage or traveling, and board incurred by any candidate for office or for nomination thereto, so far as they are permitted by this act. (Sec. 228.)

(e) Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through another person, make a payment, or promise of payment, to a treasurer or political agent in any other name than his own. (Sec. 228.)

(f) Every treasurer or political agent who shall, knowingly, receive a payment, or promise of payment, and enter the same or cause the same to be entered in his accounts in any other name than that of the person by whom such payment or promise of payment is made. (Sec. 228.)

(g) Every person who being an employer, pays his employes the salary or wages due in "pay envelopes" upon which there is printed or in which there is enclosed any political motto, device or argument containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days of an election or primary election puts, or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his employes are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice or information that if any particular ticket or candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place, or establishment, will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up, or the wages of his employes reduced, or other threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to inflame the political opinions or actions of his employes. (Sec. 228.)

(h) Every person who, before, during or after an election or primary election by himself, or by any other person, either directly or indirectly, gives or provides, or pays wholly or in part the expenses of giving or providing any meat, drink, entertainment or provisions to or for any person for the purpose of influencing that person, or any other person, to give or refrain from giving his vote at the election or primary election or to influence his vote in any other way therein, or on account of his having voted, or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting; and every elector who accepts the same, or any of the same, for any of the purposes aforesaid. (Sec. 228.)

(i) Every person who, at any election held pursuant to the laws of this state, applies for a ballot paper in any election room or polling place in the name of any other person than himself, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a

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fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any election, applies for a ballot paper at the same election in his own name, or any other name, or who aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission of any such act or acts. (Sec. 228.)

(j) Every person who shall falsely compose, dictate, print, write, or transmit by any means whatever to any publisher of any newspaper, book or serial, any matter, the publication of which in such newspaper, book or serial, would expose any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which would cause or tend to cause any person to be shunned or avoided, or which would have a tendency to injure any person in his business, for the purpose of intimidating, influencing, inducing or procuring any person to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election or primary election, or political convention or session of the general assembly of the State of Indiana, or either house thereof. (Sec. 228.)

(k) Every proprietor or editor of a book, newspaper or serial, and every partner, or member of a partnership, or manager of any incorporated association by which a book, newspaper, or serial is issued or published, or circulated, who shall falsely publish, or cause to be published any writing, typewriting, printing, picture, effigy, symbol, sign, cartoon, or which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes or tends to cause any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person or company in his or its business, for the purpose of intimidating, influencing or inducing, or procuring any person to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election, or primary election, or political convention or session of the general assembly of the State of Indiana, or either house thereof. (Sec. 228.)

Penalty for Violation of Corrupt Practices Act.

Every person who shall be guilty of any corrupt practices as aforesaid, shall be fined not less than $300.00 nor more than $1,000.00 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and shall be ineligible to any public office, or public employment, for the period of four years from and after the time of the commission of such offense. (Sec. 228.)

Corporate Contributions.

No corporations, domestic or foreign, can directly or indirectly or through any officer, agent or employe, representative or other person whatsoever give, contribute, furnish, lend or promise any money, property, transportation or means to aid, promote or influence the success or defeat of any political party, or principle, or to aid, promote or influence the election or defeat of any candidate, or to be used for any political purposes whatever, to the following persons:

1. To any political party.

2. To any candidate for public office or for nomination therefor.

3. To any public organization.

4. To any political committee.

5. To any treasurer or political agent. (Sec. 229.)

Contest Complaint.

The act provides for contest, at the instance of a defeated candidate or of ten duly qualified voters, of any election wherein it is alleged that corrupt practices have been used. (Sec. 230.)

Duty of Prosecuting Attorneys.

It is the duty of the Prosecuting Attorney to prosecute by the regular course of criminal procedure persons whom he may believe to be guilty of having violated any of the provisions of this act. (Sec. 232.)

INTERPRETATION OF THE FEDERAL

CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT.

TERM "POLITICAL COMMITTEE" DEFINED.

The term "political committee" under the provisions of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act includes the national committees of all political parties and the national Congressional Campaign Committees of all political parties and all committees, associations or organizations which shall in two or more states influence the result or attempt to influence the result of an election at which Representatives in Congress are to be elected. (Sec. 233.)

OFFICERS OF POLITICAL COMMITTEES.

Every political committee shall have a chairman and a treasurer. No officer or member of such committee, or other person. acting under its authority or in its behalf shall receive any money or its equivalent, or expend or promise to expend any money on behalf of such committee, until after a chairman and treasurer of such committee shall have been chosen. (Sec. 234.)

TREASURERS MUST KEEP BOOKS OF ACCOUNT.

It shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep a detailed and exact account of all money or its equivalent received by or promised to such committee or any member thereof or by or to any person acting under its authority or in its behalf, and the name of every person, firm, association or committee from whom received, and of all expenditures, disbursements and promises of payment or disbursement made by the committee or any member thereof, or by any person acting under its authority or in its behalf, and to whom paid, distributed or disbursed. (Sec. 234.)

RECEIPTS FOR DISBURSEMENTS.

Every payment or disbursement made by a political committee exceeding ten dollars in amount must be evidenced by a re

ceipted bill stating the particulars of expense, and every such record, voucher, receipt or account shall be preserved for fifteen months after the election to which it relates. (Sec. 235.)

RECORDS OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

All persons receiving contributions, payments, loans, gifts, advances, deposits or promises of money or its equivalent are required to render detailed accounts to the treasurer on demand and in any event within five days, and it is the duty of the treasurer to forthwith enter the name and address of the contributor and the amount of the contribution in the record kept for that purpose. (Sec. 236.)

TREASURER'S STATEMENTS.

WHERE FILED.

The treasurer must file a sworn, itemized, detailed statement not more than fifteen days and not less than ten days before a general election of Representatives in Congress in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C.; and supplemental statements each sixth day thereafter until such election. He shall also file a similar statement within thirty days after such election. Each of said statements must conform to the following requirements:

"First: The name and address of each person, firm, association, or committee who or which has contributed, promised, loaned, or advanced to such political committee, or any officer, member, or agent thereof either in one or more items, money or its equivalent of the aggregate amount or value of one hundred dollars or more, and the amount or sum contributed, promised, loaned, or advanced by each.

"Second. The aggregate sum contributed, promised, loaned, or advanced to such political committee, or to any officer, member or agent thereof, in amounts of less than one hundred dollars.

"Third. The total sum of all contributions, promises, loans, and advances received by such political committee or any officer, member, or agent thereof.

"Fourth. The name and address of each person, firm, association, or committee to whom such political committee, or any officer, member, or agent thereof, has distributed, disbursed, contributed, loaned, advanced, or promised any sum of money or its equivalent of the amount or value of $10.00 or more, stating the amount or sum distributed, disbursed, contributed, loaned, advanced, or promised to each, and the purpose thereof.