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76TH CONGRESS 1st Session

SENATE

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Report
No. 1

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES AND USE OF GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS IN 1938

JANUARY 3, 1939 Ordered to be printed

Mr. SHEPPARD, from the Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures and Use of Governmental Funds in 1938, submitted to the Senate the following

REPORT

[Pursuant to S. Res 283 (75th Cong.) and S. Res, 290 (75th Cong.)]

The special committee of five Members of the Senate, appointed pursuant to Senate Resolution 283, Seventy fifth Congress, and Senate Resolution 290, Seventy-fifth Congress, to investigate senatorial campaign expenditures and use of governmental funds, submits the following report:

AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION

Senate Resolution 283.-- The Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures and Use of Governmental Funds was created by Senate Resolution 253, Seventy-fifth Congress, third ses sion, agreed to by the Senate on May 27, 1938, Under this resolution, the committee was authorized and directed to investigate: (1) The campaign expenditures of candidates for the United States Senate in both parties; (2) the names of persons, firms, or corporations making contributions; (3) the method of expenditure of campaign funds; and (4) all facts in relation thereto not only as to contributions and expenditures, but as to the use of any other means or influence, including the promise or use of patronage or use of any public funds, and all other facts in relation thereto which would aid the Senate in enacting remedial legislation or in deciding any contests which might be instituted involving the right to a seat in the United States Senate.

1 For the text of 8. Res 283 75th Co 2.34 was, see Appendix 1 page 42

*By Res 2:0, agreed to by the schite on Jine 16. Tak the camiitre's furisdiction was broadened to extend to candidates in all parties in 191% for nomination and election to the United States Senate

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