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Show IEJ0BD INQUIRY flF 'SLIM FUNDS Senate Asked to Probe Into All Expenditures Up to Election Time WASHINGTON. June 3. The senate was asked today by Sonator Pome-rene, Pome-rene, Domocrat. Ohio, to authorize tho committee investigating pre-convontlon pre-convontlon political financing to extend ex-tend Its inquiry to the presidential and senatorial campaign which will and with the elections in November. Senator Pomcrenc's resolution would direct the committee to Investigate Investi-gate "aftpr the adjournment of the Democratic national convention and before the November election, 1920. tho receipts and expenditures of the several political committees and the receipts and expenditures of the campaigns cam-paigns conducted by and on behair of, or against, the election of the several candidates for president and vice-president and the L'nlted States senate and make report of their proceedings to the senate not later than the first Monday in December. Decem-ber. 1U20." The resolution went over until tomorrow. to-morrow. W. B. Bunt, assistant to Colonel "William Cooper Proctor, national chairman of the Wood campaign committee, com-mittee, was tho first witness called! today. In business life he sair. nel was assistant and confidential man' for" Ambrose Monell, of New Yorn.i I who, It has been testified, was a heavy contributor to the Wood campaign! fund. j Mr. Burtt said he had brought papers from the Wood national com-1 ! mlttee and produced a suitcase and! two bundles from which he took a I set of formidable louking ledgers. I Mr. Burn said one of the'volumes j contained all tho requests for funds filed witli the national Wood com-! mltteo by state and district managers: and a notation of the action taken. "In order to carry out your work In a business-like way." "Chairman' Kenyon observed" 'your committee found it necessary to .have printed a blank form, headed " requests for funds.'" |