St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 2, 1928
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PAGE 2 BRIDGE PROMOTER. DEFRAUDED U. 8, COGHRAN ASSERTS Plea of Guilty by Eugene 'M. Elliot and Judgment of Court Inserted in Con- gressional Record. MADE FALSE RETURN ON INCOME TAXES St. Louisan Tells House About Record of Man Who Seeks Permits to ‘ Build Two Structures. ‘Post-Dispatch Bureau, 20-23 Wyatt Building. WASHINGTON, April 2.—Repre- sentative John J. Cochran (Dem), St. Louis, today disclosed to the House that Eugene M. Elliott, who has received many permits for the construction of toll bridges throughout the South and Middle West, pleaded guilty in Detember, 1925, to defrauding the Govern- ment of his income taxes. Cochran's disclosure came after Representative E. E. Denison, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, had stated that he held no prejudice against Elliot and personally would vote favorably on a bridge permit} for Elliot if it was sponsored by a mnember of Congress. On objection from the Republic- an side, Cochran was not permit- ted to finish reading the entire in- dictment against Elliott. He was, however, allowed the privilege of having the indictment, Elliott’s plea of guilty and the judgment of the Court, inserted in the Congres- sional record. Arrested for False Returns. The indictment disclosed that Elliot was arrested at Jackson- ville, Fla., for having made a false return on his income for the years 1922 and 1928. The count con- cerning the 1922 return was nolle prossed, but Elliot pleaded guilty to the second which charged that he had had a net taxable income of $206,326 that year, whereas he failed to file a return of any kind. He was fined $500, and was com- pelled to pay back taxes which Cochran said ran into six figures. The indictment revealed gthat in 1923 Elliot made more than $265,- 000 on the Gandy Bridge in Flor- ida, of which he was merely se- curity sales manager. Representative Henry -F. Nied- ringhaus (Rep.) of St. Louis, who introduced two bridge bills for Elliot at the present session, one for a bridge at Carondelet and an- other on the Olive street road, was not on the floor when Cochran | gave notice that he had a copy of the indictment against Elliot. Rep- resentative L. C. Dyer (Rep.) of St. Louis, speaking for Niedring- haus, stated that from his own knewledge, he knew Niedringhaus never had met Elliot and had merely introduced the bills at the request of constituents in St. Louis and St. Charles counties. Cochran corroborated this by stating that he had the same in- formation, Cochran stated that he wanted to emphasize that Ne placed no blame on his colleague. Cochran had a difficult time get- ting the floor to read the indict- ment. Objection from the Repub- lican side prevented him from hav- ing the document read by the clerk. Aided by Representatives La Guardia of New York and Schafer of Wisconsin, both Repub- licans, who began objecting to all bridge bills, he was given unani- mous consent to address the House for ten minutes. When he had just started a Republican member called for the regular order, and in the ensuing disorder Cochran gave up the floor, after obtaining unan- imous consent to extend his re- marks in the record. For the last two months Cochran has studied carefully all the bills coming before the House on the unanimous consent calendar, At the outset he stated he had no personal prejudice against Elliot, whom he had never met, but that was at- tacking a system which allowed persons or corporations to capitalize a bridge permit for which they paid nothing. While Cochran was mak.- ing his fight in the House, the Post- Dispatch disclosed that Elliot had obtained more than 30 bridge per- mits from Congress. Statements Called For. When the bridge bills came up today on the unanimous consent ealendar, Cochran, La Guardia and Schafer insisted that each Repre- sentative who introduced the bill make a statement that he was con- vinced the proposed permittee ex- pected to build the bridge in ques- tion and had not sold permits for other bridges. The objections by the three Rep- resentatives put Denison on the defensive. Questioned by La Guar- dia about Elliot, he made the state- ment that he would personally vote for a bridge permit for Elliott whenever the request was spon- sored by a House member. “Do you know that Elliott is not a fit person to obtain a permit from Congress?” La Guardia ‘asked. When Denison signified that he had no prejudice against Elliott, Cochran obtained the fioor and made the indictment disclo- sure. On last unanimous consent day, Cochran objected to permits to El- Hott for construction of the Ca- rondelet and Olive Street road bridges. 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