Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, 1930: Hearings Before a Select Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, Pursuant to S. Res. 215 (Seventy-first Congress), a Resolution Authorizing the Appointment of a Special Committee to Make Investigation Into the Campaign Expenditures of Candidates for the United States Senate. Part 1. Testimony on Remedial Legislation, May 4, 5, and 7, 1931, Parte1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931 - 106 páginas |
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Página 106 - ... If the recurrence of such acts as these prisoners stand convicted of are too common in one quarter of the country, and give omen of danger from lawless violence, the free use of money in elections, arising from the vast growth of recent wealth in other quarters, presents equal cause for anxiety. "If the government of the United States has within its constitutional domain no authority to provide against these evils, if the very sources of power may be poisoned by corruption or controlled by violence...
Página 45 - The sole function of the presidential electors is to cast, certify and transmit the vote of the State for President and Vice President of the nation. Although the electors are appointed and act under and pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, they are no more officers or agents of the United States than are the members of the state legislatures when acting as electors of federal senators, or the people of the States when acting as electors of representatives in Congress.
Página 63 - If any letter, circular, poster, bill, publication or placard shall contain any false statement or charges reflecting on any candidate's character, morality or integrity, the author thereof and every person printing or knowingly assisting in the circulation thereof shall be guilty of political criminal libel...
Página 87 - It is well to provide that corporations shall not contribute to Presidential or National campaigns, and furthermore to provide for the publication of both contributions and expenditures. There is, however, always danger in laws of this kind, which from their very nature are difficult of enforcement; the danger being lest they be obeyed only by the honest, and disobeyed by the unscrupulous, so as to act only as a penalty Upon honest men.
Página 87 - ... of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.
Página 45 - Congress is empowered to determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on which they are to give their votes, which is required to be the same day throughout the United States, but otherwise the power and jurisdiction of the State is exclusive, with the exception of the provisions as to the number of electors and the ineligibility of certain persons, so framed...
Página 87 - The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money.
Página 105 - If this Government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other States and governments, each of which is superior to Jhe general government, it must have the power to protect the elections on which its existence depends, from violence and corruption.
Página 106 - In a republican government, like ours, where political power is reposed in representatives of the entire body of the people, chosen at short intervals by popular elections, the temptations to control these elections by violence and by corruption is a constant source of danger.
Página 106 - US, p. 661). Upon all existing precedent and authority a Federal statute forbidding the secret expenditure of money to influence an election at which a Congressman is to be chosen would be valid and effectual to compel publicity in respect to all expenditures tending to influence the election of any candidate at such election. This would include presidential electors. A large number of the States having already required publicity of expenditures by political State committees, Congress may, on such...