Davis to seek state inquiry in Senate race
Probe of expenses in the 1944 primary will be requested
A Congressional investigation of election expenses in the 1944 senatorial primary campaign in Pennsylvania will be requested by Senator James J. Davis (R-PA), the Senator warned here today.
Senator Davis said that when he returns to Washington he will:
…ask the Majority Leader to have a resolution introduced immediately to oversee expenditures, particularly in the primary elections.
He added that Congress will also be asked to appropriate sufficient funds:
…to enable United States marshals to cooperate with the committee and a sufficient appropriation to supervise the votes.
‘Both sides guilty’
Senator Davis, who was declared for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1942, said:
I don’t want to see happen again what happened in Allegheny, Lackawanna, parts of Schuylkill County and Philadelphia in 1942.
Mr. Davis indicated that his proposed inquiry would include expenses of both the Republican and Democratic campaigns, declaring that:
It’s just as bad on the Democratic side as on the Republican side.
Strikes assailed
In a speech at Moose Hall last night, Senator Davis said that a shutdown of the nation’s steel mills or railroads would have been “a calamity comparable to Pearl Harbor.”
The Senator commended leaders of the railroad and steel unions:
…who, when they might have chosen to permit trouble and delay, chose rather to keep the men at work.