INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENTIAL,

VICE PRESIDENTIAL, AND SENATORIAL
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES, 1940

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SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE PRESIDEN-
TIAL, VICE PRESIDENTIAL, AND SENATORIAL
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES, 1940

PURSUANT TO

SENATE RESOLUTIONS Nos. 212, 291, AND 336
SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

THIRD SESSION

TOGETHER WITH A

SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT BY MR. ADAMS AND
THE MINORITY VIEWS OF MR. TOBEY

FEBRUARY 15, 1941.-Ordered to be printed

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1941

1991 A5 1940

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE PRESIDENTIAL, VICE PRESIDENTIAL, AND SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES,

1940

LISTER HILL, Alabama
ALVA B. ADAMS, Colorado

GUY M. GILLETTE, Iowa, Chairman

CLYDE M. REED, Kansas

CHARLES W. TOBEY, New Hampshire

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CONTENTS

I. Introduction_..

A. Authority creating committee.

1. Senate Resolution 212.

2. Membership..

B. Jurisdiction...

1. Subjects of investigation..

(a) Campaign expenditures-

(b) Contributions..

(c) Use of influence.

2. Purposes of investigation..

(a) Study in aid of remedial legislation...

(b) Aid in deciding senatorial seat contests.

3. Scope of authority.

(a) Contests in primaries and pre-convention

activities...

4. Authorization.

(a) Upon special committee's initiative...

(b) Complaint to special committee..

5. Special committee to report to Senate..

C. Policy of special committee__

D. Scope of investigation...

II. Hatch Acts.

1. General..

2. States wherein made.

A. General.

B. Limitations.

1. Limit of $5,000 on individual contributors-

2. Limit of $3,000,000 on contributions or expenditures

by political committees..

3. Limit on activities of administrative employees of

United States _ _

4. Extension of provisions of act to State employees paid

from Federal funds.

C. Voluntary interpretations of Hatch Act.

1. General counsel, Republican, National Committee...

2. General counsel, Democratic National Committee..

3. Statement by United States Attorney General.

4. Special committee position...

III. Activities of special committee....

A. Characterization and summary of activities.

B. Subjects investigaged..

1. Contributions, expenditures, and related activities..

(a) Contributions, expenditures, and activities of

Democratic, Republican, and independent

committees...

(b) Senatorial contributions and expenditures - 13

(c) Miscellaneous political organization contri-
butions and expenditures.

(d) Observations on method of reporting contri-
butions and expenditures.

2. Character of campaign literature..

3. Political activities by Federal agencies..

(a) Alleged activity of Agricultural Adjustment

Administration___.

(b) Intimidation of Work Projects Administration
workers by officials thereof in New York..

(c) Alleged padding of Work Projects Adminis-

tration rolls..

(d) Intimidation of signers of Communist peti-

tions...

(e) Alleged abuses by Surplus Commodity Cor-

poration officials..