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Show BELMONT IS GIVING THE DEMOCRATS CREDIT 'ASHINiiTON. March 1;:. Declaring' that the MoCall bill for the publicity of campaign eontributlons and. expend! lures has been reported out of the committee of Un house on clnotlons. only tey per-yistent per-yistent ofloru of the Democratic mem-boi-s of that committee, and "that tho Republican leader?; of the house have yet to denionstrute that they do not intend to prevent Hie enactment of a campaign publiclly law as Ihey did in the last con-grew.'-' Perry Belmont of New York. pretddent .of the National Publilcty Ltw corpora Hon. today sent a telegrim to Governor Harmon of Ohio thanking the governor and other prominent men for their n.sistance. Mr. Belmont expresicd satisfaction over the f.iiorable action taken yesterdav In tho lioii.-j.; rommiitee and announced tint he would continue his efforts to get he McCall bill through congress. The bill wr not yet been presented In the sen-ate, sen-ate, but It Is expected it will be sub-milted sub-milted within a few day;. Mr. Belmont's telegram 1o Jtid.'on I-lar-ni"n readn hi pnrt: "Af rcprofeiitlng a non-partur or-ganisatlon. or-ganisatlon. I regret to find It necessarv to say to you and other members of our association that the report of the bi'l has been securod onlv by the persistent effort? of the minority members of the committee, Repreceutatlves Kucker t Missouri, llardwlck of Georgia. Gllesple of Texas and Conmv of New York. ' ltepreseiitatlve McCII. Republican of MassaehuRCltf!. Hie man who lntrciuced the bill In the house, paid he believed that hip bill would become law. jl "I behove the Republicans of the hous ore for the bill and will vote for It when Jl tha tlmA comes. jH "I shall work earnestly for Its passage jB and do all T can to insure Its enactment into law." he said. Mr. Rueker. Oemncmt. of Missouri. senior minorltv niemher of the mmmi'-eo mmmi'-eo that Reported tho Mil. sid tlvO Ihi "DpinotrntP would h. for It to a man' |