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Show SENATOR CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY PROSECUTOR ALLEGES THAT NEWBERRY SPENT IMMENSE SUMS FOR ELECTION. Declares That Money Freely Changed Hands, More Being Spent in Forty-eight Hours Than the Laws Permitted for Campaign. Grand Rapids, Mich. An outline of what the government expects to prove against Truman H. Newberry, United States senator, and his 123 associates, charged wit.li conspiracy in connection with the 191S senatorial campaign, was started in the federal court Monday Mon-day by Frank D. Dailey, special assistant assist-ant attorney general. Throughout his address Mr, Dailey stressed the money which the government govern-ment alleges was spent in violation of the law limiting campaign expenses. He said Milton Oakman was hired as manager of the Detroit campaign "at an enormous and staggering salary amounting to thousands of dollars." He charged that when the campaign started the Newberry organization "launched into an orgy of spending," and spoke of great heaps and piles of currency, which, he said, were visible at the Detroit and Grand Rapids headquarters. "The evidence will show," he shouted, shout-ed, "that this organization spent more money an average every forty-eight hours than the laws of the United States permit for an entire campaign." Mr. Dailey said the money went for automobiles and halls, workers at the polls, votes, banquets, liquor, cigars and flowers. He charged that some custodians of money used it to pay personal debts. There was also, he said, a system of gratuities. A $50 bill was placed in a book so that it could be found by one citizen, and a banker was given .$500 for his influence, influ-ence, the prosecutor charged. "They employed men to work particularly par-ticularly among railroad unions," said Mr. Dailey. He said special agents were hired to work among the Indians, lumberjacks, negroes, factory workers and sailors on the Great Lakes. |