Special committe to investigat SELECT COMMITTEE ON SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES. UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 215 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO MAKE INVESTIGA TION INTO THE CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES OF CANDIDATES FOR THE UNITED Waller, Hall H White, William. White, W. W Statement of James N. Cox-- CONTENTS 77 125 162 65 122 33, 100, 177 32 112 198 16 147 97 222 164 17 140 153 118, 183 34 III SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES, 1930 TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2 o'clock p. m., in room 235, Federal Building, Nashville, Tenn., Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Nye (chairman) and Wagner. The CHAIRMAN. Let the committee be in order. The Chair feels it is timely and opportune for just a remark or two relative to the occasion for the committee's visit here in Tennessee. The task which comes to this committee in Tennessee, like that which has been our lot in other States, can by no stretch of the imagination be termed a pleasant task. However, it is not for us to choose where we should go or what we should do. Under the resolution adopted by the Senate, Senate Resolution 215, this committee is specifically charged with an investigation into expenditures made and sources of contributions to senatorial campaigns in primary elections, as well as in general elections, and we are also ordered to report to the Senate the result of our investigations not later than the 1st, or upon the convening of the Senate next December. If the committee were to wait, with all its work, until December, it would be humanly impossible to lay before the Senate anything resembling a report after only one month of effort. I regret, as every other member of the committee regrets, ocçasions which find the committee active in its work during the time when a campaign is going on. However, in the case of Tennessee, charges have been made, charges involving the lavish expenditure of money to win nomination for election to the United States Senate. There have also been charges of corrupt methods resorted to in the conduct of that primary campaign on election day. These charges, however, are not ours. They are not the charges of the committee. They are charges which have been laid before the committee, and the committee in turn has sent into Tennessee, as it has sent into other States, men whose work it was to ascertain whether or not there was any foundation or sufficient foundation to occasion the close attention of the committee in the form of open hearings. We are here now because there has been some little reason to believe that things might not be as they ought to be, and because we have reasons to believe that there are facts available here which ought properly to be laid before the Senate of the United States, when that body convenes. 1 |