TR Common Cause, a national citizens’ organization, has ‘made public the details of its lobbying report for the third quartefi@¥f the year, filed with the Clerk of the House on Oc- tober 10 as required by law. The report shows that Common Cause spent $140,513.85 during the quarter to attempt to influence legislation, bringing the total spent for this purpose since January 1 to $415,788.53. Receipts, mainly from dues ‘and gifts, were $852,864.86 for the quarter and $2,416,199.04 for the year. While the law requires that the receipts and expenditures reported by lobbying organs Syons be printed in the Hearing Waived on Drag Racing Charge Hearings on charges of drag racing filed against John L. McDonald Jr., 248 Church Road, Mountaintop, and Richard J. Moses of 914 McAlpine St., Avoca, were waived an attorney for the young mieh shortly before. their hearings were to have com- menced last Thursday night before District Magistrate Leonard D. Harvey. Prosecuting officer was Timothy Carroll, Dallas Borough Police Department, who stated that he had arrested Mr. McDonald and Mr. Moses after observing them in a speeding contest driving south on Route 309. Mr. McDonald was operating a 1972 yellow Ferrari and Mr. Moses was driving a 1967 Corvette, he said. The’ incident reportedly oc- curred Aug. 20 at 11:10 p.m. The case will now be eon- sidered by a Luzerne County grand jury. Burglafy Charge A burglary charge filed again{§z Frank Zurinski of Carpenter Road, Harveys Lake, by Anthony Kizis of Pole 189, Harveys Lake, was discharged by Magistrate Leonard D. Harvey following a hearing last Friday morning. Mr. Kizis had charged Mr. Zurinski with entering his establishment, the Anchor Bar, “with intent to commit a felony.” Following his arraignment, Mr. Kurinski had been in- carcerated in the Luzerne County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. It Pays to Advertise (CK DRAWING IS Congressional Record, this usually follows the filing by several months. In taking what is believed to be an unprecedented action, Common Cause Chairman John W. Gardner said he was making the - entire lobbying report available to the press because stories based on previous filings had described Common Cause as the nation’s ‘‘biggest lobby spender.” “We want to explain what we do in our reports,” Mr. Gardner said, “and how we are almost alone among national lobbying groups in our compliance with the spirit as well as the letter of the law.” He said Common Cause reports everything spent on lobbying, including contacts with its members throughout the country on pending legislation. “Close examination of the expenditure side of our report,” Mr. Gardner said, “will show that more than half of our disbursements were made for what is commonly known as ‘grass roots’ lobbying -- at- tempts to influence legislative and executive branch activity through our members -- which under the law we are not required to report.” It is such full disclosure, a Common Cause policy, which makes it appear that the organization is spending so much more than others, Mr. Gardner said. “Other national organizations whose lobbying efforts are equal to or in excess of our own use the many loopholes in the law to evade registering or to underestimate their ex- penditures,” he said, ‘‘often to the point of reporting no ex- penditures at all.” Authorities have estimated, he said, that only 20-25 percent of active lobbyists register, and that for every dollar reported under the law, $200 is actually spent. In citing the deficiencies of the present lobbying law, which Common Cause seeks to statement made by W. Pat Jennings, Clerk of the House, during House hearings on the lobbying law in 1970. ‘‘I have no enforcement powers,” Mr. Jennings said, and speculated that many groups tossed spending forms he had returned for revision into the wastebasket. ‘We do not charge that many organizations are violating the law,” Mr. Gardner said. ‘What they do is use to the fullest every loophole, weakness and omission in the law to make it appear that they are not doing what everybody knows they are doing.” As examples, he said a RD 3 NU A A A A A A A A A A A A a ATI A A A 0 err 5 careful comparison of lobbying reports with actual activity revealed the following: --The press has reported number of business groups -- among them the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Ford, Proctor and Gamble, J.C. Penney, General Mills, and the National Association of Manufacturers -- in opposition to a bill which would establish an independent consumer agency. Sen. Charles Percy has been quoted as saying, ‘I know of no legislation in my years in the Senate about which more lobbyists have tried to see me.” Not a single one of these groups was registered in the first quarter lobbying report. Neither the Chamber of Commerce nor the National Rifle Association reported spending anything on lobbying for the first quarter of 1972, although the Chamber had registered to lobby on nine bills, including the consumer protection agency legislation, and the NRA on 12. -In a report filed with the Federal Power Commission last month, El Paso Natural Gas Co. indicated that it had spent $893,862 during 1971 (more than Common Cause spent on all its lobbying activities in the same period) to push a bill which would void three Supreme Court orders requiring the company to divest itself of another pipeline firm. The total included $353,113 to Sharon, Pierson, Semmes, Crolius and Finley, the law firm El Paso had hired However, in reporting to Congress under the Lobbying Act, Sharon, Pierson listed only $6,227.75 spent on lobbying during 1971 and El Paso itself did not register or file reports on any expenditures. In the breakdown of the latest report, Common Cause listed the following as among its legislative interests: anti-war legislation, employment, education, consumer protec- tion, environment, law en- forcement, administration of justice, the reordering of national priorities, tax reform, D.C. Home Rule, congressional reform, campaign finance disclosure, financial disclosure by public officials and lobby regulation. Loren Keller In Geisinger Loren Keller, formerly an Idetown florist, is a patient in the intensive care unit of Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. The Kellers left the Back Mountain last year to live in Danville. 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