Show CARNEGIE PEACE FUND I SECRETARY TESTIFIES 2 WASHINGTON March March James dames Tames Brown Scott secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace testified testified tes tes- d to today ay before the senate lobby committee pre Inquiry into tb the endowment was precipitated pre pre- by the charge made in executive thc tive session of the senate by Senator O OGorman O'Gorman that its main purpose e was not to promote international peace butI butto but butto I to brin bring about a British American alliance alliance alli alli- ance in the interest of a selected rejected few fow who supported the institution Senator 0 Gorman OGorman is leading the tho fi fight ht in the senate against repeal of tho Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama canal tolls toUs exemption and tho the I lobby committee sought to find if men interested in the endowment were wore in in I any way interested in that issue The The he annual revenue of the endo endowment ment is derived from bonds of tho the United Stat States s Steel corporation Senator Senat r Walsh asked particularly asto asto as asto to an annual contribution of to th the American Peace society Secretary Scott said that organization was headed by Senator Burton and that it distributed toed to smaller or organizations through the tho country documents dealing with the peace propaganda He agreed reed to produce copies o of all which dealt with general arbitration treaties or canal tolls exemption Further inquiry into the peace endowments endowments en en- records brought to li light bt an allotment of in 1913 for propaganda prop propaganda for Panama tolls That sum I it was disclosed never ne was sas expended and i still is carried on the books book I r t. t Clarence W W. De Knight ht the tho Washington Wash WalSh jn ington ton lawyer examined yesterday suf suffered feTed a nervous collapse and was une un un- e ablo able to at appear p ar He Ho had promised to produce his contract with former Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Bowles owes head bead of the Fore River Biver Shipbuilding company for work for a n Panama tolls exempt exemption on Bowles denies that De Knight had ad such euch a contract |