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Show NEWS REVSEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Senate Inquiry Discloses Some Big Campaign Funds, but No Real Scandal. GUESSES AS TO ITS EFFECT Gompers Tells Labor Its Election Duty Profiteers Get Several Blows President Wants to Accept American Mandate, but Congress Is Opposed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Senator Borah certainly started something when he brought about the senate investigation of the pre-conven-tion expenses of the various presidential presiden-tial candidates. According to the generally gen-erally accepted theory, the inquiry was intended by Its promoters to help the candidacy of Senator Hiram Johnson. John-son. At this. writing It Is not easy to say whom it has most helped and whom most hurt. Some political experts ex-perts who profess to have no bias aa-sert aa-sert that so far as the Republican side of It is concerned, the investigation presages the nomination of some dark horse, or possibly of Senator Knox, who Is not exactly dark, though not an open candidate for the honor. The idea of those prophets Is that the facts elicited by the senate committee eliminate all of the active aspirants except perhaps Johnson, and that the party leaders will never consent to the nomination of the Californian. However, In this matter every man can be his own prophet, and his personal predilections probably will govern his forecast. Governor Lowden's managers were the first to be heard, and in accord with their assertions that they had nothing to conceal they stated that the Lowden fund was something over $400,000, of which the governor and his wife had contributed $379,150. Other contributions ranged from $2,500 downward. Nothing very startling or shocking In that. The Poindexter, Johnson and Hoover funds were each found to be less than $100,000, and Senator Sutherland's was only $473. Harding's is $107,704. Then the big noise came with the questioning of Colonel Proctor, head of the Wood organization. or-ganization. He admitted without hesitation hes-itation that a fund of more than $1,000,000 had been raised to finance the general's campaign, and stated that he himself had "advanced" $500,-000 $500,-000 of this. He confessed his expectation expec-tation of getting this back was not strong, nnd that he was ready to advance ad-vance more if it were needed. Other liberal contributors to the Wood fund, said Proctor, were Col. Ambrose Monell of New York, William Wrigiey, Jr., and Col. H. M. Byllesby. Doctor Butler's candidacy, It was learned, has been financed to the extent ex-tent of $40,550. Naturally the committee did not overlook the Democratic candidates, and it brought out facts that, according accord-ing to the political sharps mentioned above, wiped out the chances of Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer. Questioned by Chairman Kenyon. former Congressman C. C. Carlin, Palmer's manager, admitted ad-mitted flint both he and J. Bruce Sterling, Ster-ling, the Palmer manager of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, were attorneys for steel interests inter-ests charged with evasion of paying income in-come taxes. The latter represents the Crucible Steel company, which the governnu'nt compelled to pay $9,000,-000, $9,000,-000, and t tie former is the attorney for Herbert Dupuy, connected with the steel concern, who. with his wife, was charged with being about $1,500,-000 $1,500,-000 short in Income tax paid. Mr. Carlin said the largest contributors to Palmer's $59,000 fund wertt J. M. Guffv of Pennsylvania and J. Harry Covington, who as counsel under Palmer Pal-mer when the latter was alien property prop-erty custodian, received fees so large as to cause public comment. Walker W. VIck. representing Edwards, Ed-wards, denied Indignantly that there had been any deal with liquor Interests Inter-ests to support or finance the cam paign of the New Jersey governor. Mr. Edwards, he said, hasn't had a drink in 30 years, and is standing for the principles of personal liberty and state sovereignty. So far as the committee could discover, there is no McAdoo fund, and only about $28,000 lias been raised for the Cox campaign. cam-paign. Sober thinking men will scarcely find anything scandalous in the facts elicited by the senate committee, but they reveal the unfortunately large expenditures ex-penditures that are considered necessary neces-sary in our pre-conventlop campaigns under the primary system. They also show that Michigan is an expensive state, the fight for a presidential preference pref-erence vote there costing almost as much as the last senatorial campaign. The contest In Ohio was almost as costly. In these and some other states large sums were expended by local organizations that do not appear ap-pear in the figures submitted by the national managers. The Johnson people in the Chicago headquarters were the first to put forth a definite claim as to the number num-ber of votes with which their candidate candi-date would enter the convention. Their assertion is that Hiram will have 236 delegates pledged to stick with him to the last ditch. An Interesting guess at what the first ballot in the Coliseum will look like Is made by a shrewd observer. Here it is : For Wood 200 For Lowden 208 For Johnson .'. 121 For Harding 112 For Nicholas Murray Butler 79 For Governor Sproul 76 For Governor Coolidge 36 For Governor Morrow 26 For La Follette 24 For Pritchard 22 For Poindexter 14 For Du Pont 6 Total delegates 984 Necessary to a choice 493 The orators for the two conventions are being selected. Former governor Willis of Ohio will place Senator Harding in nomination In Chicago, and Charles S. Willis of California will do the same for Senator Johnson. In San lraneisco former Governor Shaben-berger Shaben-berger of Nebraska will present the name of Hitchcock, C. F. X. O'Brien of Jersey City that of Edwards, Claude Porter will nominate E. T. Meredith, John H. Bigelow will place Palmer before be-fore the convention, and Dr. Burris Jenkins of Kansas City will name McAdoo. Mc-Adoo. Samuel Gompers took his whack at politics last week, devoting a long article ar-ticle to a denunciation of congress and the executive departments for "incompetence "incom-petence on the cost of living issue," and calling for an overturn in congress and the defeat of labor's enemies and election of Its friends. He demands "immediate effective action to prevent continued increases In the cost of living," liv-ing," and at the same time says wages, both In private employment and in government service, must be adjusted upward. There must he no more such legislation as the Esch-Cumniins Esch-Cumniins railroad law and the Kansas court of industry law, asserts Mr. Gompers, nnd existing laws like those must be repealed. His statements concerning wages and legislation sound inconsistent, but no one will quarrel with his severe remarks about profiteering, unless It be the profiteers themselves. The labor chief bail some hard things to say about Attorney General Palmer's efforts to curb that evil. The profiteers were dealt several blows during the week. The federal circuit court of appeals in New York upheld the Lever act as constitutional, In the case of Weed & Co., Buffalo clothiers, affirming the decision of Judge Hazel, who refused to enjoin a district attorney from proceeding against the company on profiteering charges. A federal grand jury, also In New York, Indicted the American Woolen company and William M. Wood, Its president, for violating the Lever act by profiteering In selling cloth at unjust and unreasonable prices. The government attorneys said It developed that the company was receiving 35 per cent profit above cost, although Mr. Wood claimed the profit proposed by the concern for Its 1920 business was but 12y2 per cent. Testimony before a New York Investigating In-vestigating committee revealed that tiie American sugar business is in the hands of three or four persons, that there Is a large "invisible" supply of the commodity somewhere in the United Unit-ed States, and that a million tons are stored in Cuba for higher prices. In Chicago many carloads of sugar were found in railroad yards, but the dealers deal-ers and railway managers asserted it could not be unloaded because of the switchmen's strike. The federal authorities au-thorities there contemplated some drastic action to get the sugar on the market. President Wilson stirred up the animals ani-mals again with his request that congress con-gress authorize him to accept a mandate man-date for Armenia. In a message sent to both houses he said that he was acting act-ing "in the confidence that I am speaking speak-ing the spirit and in ieordance with the wishes of the greatest of Christian Chris-tian peoples." He felt he was giving advice "from which the congress will not willingly turn away." But congress did turn away from it with an approach to unanimity that would discourage a less determined man than Mr. Wilson. Republican leaders, almost without exception, expressed ex-pressed themselves as opposed to granting the request, and even Senator Llitchcock said, after several days, that he did not expect to support It. Then along came William Jennings Bryan with the uncompromising assertion asser-tion that an American mandate over Armenia or any other country was Impossible. At first it was said congress would take no action on the president's request re-quest until later In the summer, but this plan was reconsidered. The senate sen-ate foreign relations committee after af-ter brief discussion, reported a resolution reso-lution declining the mandate, and the house committee on foreign affairs asked Secretary of State Colby to appear ap-pear before it and give information. The president sent in his expected veto of the Knox peace resolution on Thursday. Meanwhile the Armenians are trying try-ing to insure their own safety on one border at least by entering into negotiations nego-tiations with the Russian bolsheviki,, who have been threatening them on the north. They accepted an invitation invita-tion to send delegates to Moscow. The Georgians already have made an agreement agree-ment with the Moscow government, undertaking to prevent the use of Georgian territory as a base of attacks on the bolsheviki. On the other side the Armenians are confronted with the Turkish nationalists, whose leader, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, has reiterated reiterat-ed his defiance of the allies and his unending opposition to the terras of the peace treaty. In Thrace, where the Turks are opposing occupation by the Greeks, they have met with several defeats. de-feats. The war between the Poles and the soviet Russians continues unabated, and advantages are claimed by both sides. It is apparent that the Russians Rus-sians have had the best of it along the noithern part of the long battle bat-tle line. They report the capture of Borisov on the Bereslna, which carries car-ries them well on the way to the important im-portant railway center of Minsk. Still farther north they have extended their operations into I.etvia and are threatening Dvinsk, which controls ttte main railroad Into East Prussia. Just as we thought Mexico was settling set-tling down Into comparative quiet under un-der the new provisional government, comes the disturbing report that an- oilier uprising is under way, led hy Felix Phiz. Rebel troops under his command that are operating along the coast of the state of Vera Cruz are said to have joined forces with other hands still loyal to the Carranza regime. re-gime. Some time ago Diaz announced that lie had quit fighting Carranza Carran-za and wanted only to leave the country. The successful revolutionists revolution-ists also have "Pancho" Villa to combat, com-bat, for he has declared himself dissatisfied dis-satisfied with their government, and has resumed his career of banditry. He Is still powerful In Chihuahua state. The Mexican congress elected Adol-fo Adol-fo de la Huerta of Sonora provisional president |