GAO commented on the availability of funds granted to states under the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Acts of 1947 and 1948 for the payment of telegraphic communications designed to influence legislation. GAO noted that statutory law prohibited the use of appropriated funds to pay for telegrams that were designed to influence members of Congress...

Chairman: I have your letter of May 26. Is found to have violated or attempted to violate this section. You state that officials of the Department of Labor have been questioned as to the propriety of expenditures of the nature h ere involved but that said officials contend that the "communications were dispatched in the interests of good government.". The tenor of the quoted telegrams would leave...