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75TH CONGRESS SENATE R REPORT
1st Session No. 1189
CRIME AND CRIMINAL PRACTICES
AUGUST 9 (calendar day, AuG. 13), 1937.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. COPELAND and Mr. VANDENBERG, from the Committee on Com-
merce, submitted the following
REPORT
[Pursuant to Senate Resolutions Nos. 74 and 196 (73d Cong.) and 306 (74th Cong.)
relative to an investigation of crime and criminal practices and so-called
Rackets and Racketeering practices in the United States]
INTRODUCTORY
Senate Resolution 74 of the Seventy-third Congress, adopted June
12, 1933, directed the Committee on Commerce, or any duly authorized
subcommittee thereof, to investigate rackets and racketeering in the
United States, and to report to the Senate the results of such investi-
gation, together with recommendations for the enactment of legisla-
tion designed to check the spread of racketeering. By Senate
Resolution 196 of the Seventy-third Congress, ado pted February 20,
1934, the scope of the investigation was extended so as to include
crime and criminal practices generally. This resolution also directed
that the investigation continue until the termination of the Seventy-
fourth Congress. Thereafter, a further extension, until the termina-
tion of the Seventy-fifth Congress, was effected by Senate Resolution
306 of the Seventy-fourth Congress, adopted on June 1, 1936.
The Committee on Commerce determined to conduct the investi-
gation so directed through the medium of a subcommittee. Accord-
ingly, a subcommittee was appointed, consisting of Senator Royal S.
Copeland, of New York, chairman, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg,
of Michigan, and Senator Louis Murphy, of Iowa (who participated
diligently in the work of the subcommittee until his untimely death
on July 16, 1937).
From time to time, with the introduction of some of the approved
bills, reports of progress have been made to the Senate. This report
attempts to give a complete picture of the work of the committee.
THE SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
Since crime, of which racketeering is one phase, has traditionally
been regarded as essentially a local matter-that is, a matter within
the exclusive jurisdiction of the States and their subdivisions-no](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/cmaclps0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)