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Show (MILLION SPENT TO ELECTSEITOIIS Statesmen in Upper House Manifest Great Interest in Figures Published WASHINGTON Dec 30 Nearly half a mill on dollars was spent by candidates of all parties last November in the first popular flection of Un ted States senators m the h story of the government To be exact $460 777 o represents the total of sworn state ments of campa gn expenditures filed w th the secretary of the senate by the men who sought senator al honors from thirty one states Of this grand total the e was contributed from ar ous sources to the candidates $188 8i 99 In accordance w th these figures there fore the cand dates themselveB turned into c rculation for the privilege of run mng for ofdee $271,9'9 26 Senators who looked over the figures today manifested great interest and t was remarked that should all the sena tors be elected at one time the cost to the cand dates based upon the rat o establ shed would be three times as great or approx mate y $1 38-1 000 Democrats led in the expenditure with $24" 89o 90 Eepubl can candi dates spent $156 884 38 Progressives $55 158 94 Proh bit omsts $4443 q3 Soc al sts $3o4 74 and independents $1040 06 The average per cap ta ex pend ture was Democrats $3074 63 Bepubl cans $285" 44 The largest expend tures occurred in the state of Georgia where two sena tors were elected the amount sworn to by all candidates there totalling $41 492 63 North Carolina cand dates where Senator Overman was re elected brought up the rear w th a total ex penditure of $70 6o Will am Henley defeated Progress ve of Oregon who reported that he d sbuTsed $10 3'6 94 and had contr buted to his campa gn $10 415 93 was the onjy cand date to exceed the $10 000 limit fixed by law Several cand dates reported) that they spent no money whatever but the lowest expend ture on record was 8 cents reported by E L Hitchens So c alist cand date in Oh o By states the expend tures were as follows Alabama, $33 208 06 Arizona $10 115 73 Arkansas $4718 45 Cahforn a $17 589 98 Colorado $12 8o 53 Con necticut $2708 55 Flo ida $63 3 39 Georga $41 49' 63 Idaho $16 670 36 Illmo s $34 6 3 84 Ind ana $10 161 24 Iowa $15 607 84 Kansas $31 638 43 Kentucky $27 4 8 43 Maryland $13 844 64 M ssour $6694 83 Nevada $5604 13 New Hampsh re $6?22 '8 iNew York $23 79 63 Is. orth Carol na $ 02 6o J. orth Dakota $3886 5o Ohio $"4 595 92 Oklahoma $513163 Ore gon $13 416 45 Pennsylvania $'8, 810 41 ionth Carol na $4420 50 South Dakota $12 368 4' Utah $11830 Ver moot $47o3 0 Washington $14 143 74 W scons n $15 329 89 To obtain all the sworn statements of cand dates requ red more than a month of constant effort on the part of senate offic als |