GOP LINKS RIVALS TO LIQUOR LOBBY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Washington Merry-Go-Rounc[
COP Links,
By Drew Pearson
Republican Congressmen at-
tempted to put the Democrats
in the position, of defending
the liquor lobby when 30 ener-
members 'acted'h?>3>i
to raise the 1
.the District of
by making it
coincide with
t, he drinking
age in Mary-
land and Vir-
I ginia. Pearson,
Hilliard
Schullberg, chief lobbyist for
the Washington Retail Liquor
,Dealers Association, Is now
'busy buttonholing" Democrats
to try to overrule the Republi.
can amendment. He calls in-
creasing the, drinking age from
18 to 21: "a monster-eeonomi-
calily, morally, and socially
bad."
Spearheading the Republi-
cans who wanted to remove
the Nation's Capital as a
Mecca of teen-age drinking
were William Harsha, Ohio,
Thomas Pelly, Wash., William
Bray, Ind., William Springer,
Ill., Ancher Nelsen, Minn.,
and H. R. Gross, Iowa,
Charles Joelson of New Jer-
sey was the only Democrat
who actively supported them.
Minnesota% Nelsen `had
introduced a bill two years
Ago to ? change 'the' drinking
law in the . Nation's Capital,
but Democrats on the District
ivals to Liquor Lobby
of Columbia Committee
bottled it up.
Said Rep. Harsfha: "The Na-
tion's Capital has become an
oasis for Juvenile drinking ...
Youths of both sexes shout
oaths and profanity, smash car
windows, break neighborhood
fencing. Beer bottles are
thrown through house win-
dows. Autos and motorcycles
race ' up and down District
streets. There'is loud blowing
of horns in the early hours of
the morning, street fighting,
in other words, a general dis-
turbance of the peace and
quite In the District of Colum-
bia."
It will be interesting to see
what the Democrats, who con-
trol both the House and Sen-
ate District Committees and
both Houses of Congress do'
about the Republicans' "head
start" program for teen-agers
in the Nation's Capital.
No Doddism Here -
No matter' what the Senate
Ethics Committee may do
regarding Sen. Tom D o d d
(D-Conn.), the publicity regard-
ing " his activities is already
having its effect.
Not only has President John-
son sent a proposal to Con-
gress regarding the regulation
of campaign funds, but the
other day in Springfield, Ill.,
Harry G. Taylor, president of
the Illinois Republican County
Chairmen's Association, clear-
ly Indicated that he had been
reading the columns regarding
Tom Dodd,
' Reported, the ' Illinois ~ State
Register: "Drew Pearson's and
Jack Anderson's columns you
have been reading in the
Register about Sen. Thomas
J. Dodd's alleged misuse of
campaign funds have the en-
tire Congress of the United
States shaken up.
"At the $50-a-plate fund
raising dinner in Decatur Sun-
day night, Harry G. (Skinny)
Taylor went to great lengths
to explain how the money
would be used,
"He said Thomas Harris of
Lincoln, Republican State
Committeeman, would appoint
a committee to distribute the
funds. One of the committee
members will be a certified
public accountant,
"'I think it should be 1known
that none of the funds received
by the committee will be used
for any personal expenditures
of Congressman Springer,'
Taylor said." ,
Big Money Talks
Senate campaigns 'are not
the only place where. big
money talks big. It also talks
big in Influencing some of the
pipeline cases which affect
gas and oil to millions of
housewives and thousands of
factory owners;
It's difficult for newspaper.
men to dig out the facts on all
these cases, but in regard to
El Paso Natural Gas, the com-
pany which supplies gas to
most of California,, here are
some of the fees paid to high-
powered 'attorneys to ' main.
tain El Paso's near monopoly;
Sullivan and Cromwell,, they ,a 1988;.a,u?McCiurs Syndicate, Ise.
KJ al n~~A ., .\ ... t r a .I
Wall Street firm of the late
John Foster Dulles, was paid
$946,645.54 for its legal work
before the Federal Power
Commission and the U.S.:
courts.
Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guth-
rie and Alexander, the New
York firm of former Vice
President Richard Nixon, was'
paid $77',629.20.
G. Bentley Ryan, the Los
Angeles attorney-who raised,
money for Mayor Sam Yorty's
testimonial dinner, was paid
$254,061.61.
All these legal fees are a,
matter of record, filled with:
various Government agencies.
Not of record are the fees paid
by El Paso to Clark Clifford,.
the adviser to Presidents and
now under consideration to be
Under Secretary of State for.
LBJ; or the fee paid by Clif-'
ford to Larry L, Williams,,
formerly of the Antitrust
Division, who handled the El
Paso case for the Justice De
partment. Williams formed the
Clifford law firm after he left
the Justice Department..
It's significant that thanks,
to the' tenacity of tone under
paid California servant,
William M. Bennett of the
California Public Utilities:
Commission, all of these law.'.
hers were beaten.'
Bennett stuck to ' his guns,
persisted in appealing various
lower court . rulings to the'
Supreme Court and' has won.!
Bennett receives a salary of
only $26,000 a ' year from' the
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