COST OF ELECTIONS IN U.S.A
INEFFECTIVE LEGISLATION LARGE GIFTS MADE i Received Feb. 25, 7.15 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The Senate Campaign Investigating Committee reported to-day that the major parties spent 22,717,000 dollars on the 1940 election. The Republicans spent 16,622,000 and (he Democrats 6,095,000. The Hatch Act did not succeed in preventing the expenditure of enormous sums. The committee found the 5900-dol-Jar limit for individual contributions ineffective, because gifts were spread over State or local committees. Thus the following gifts were legal—Dupont’s 187,000 dollars, Pew’s 109,000 and Rockefeller's 59,000.
Both parties legally used the device of making loans to various State and local committees to avoid the Hatcii Act. The highest loans were to Illinois, 250,000 dollars; New York, 175,000, and to New Jersey, 100,000, made by Mr. R. J. Reynolds, who is now treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 5
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