Show BORAH ADVOCATES CURBING EXPENSE IDAHO SENATOR DECLARES THAT S FINANCIAL INTERESTS WILL USE SLUSH FUND Advises CongressIonal Action to Regulate Regulate Regulate Reg Reg- the Pre Convention Expenditure Expendi ture ture- of Candidates Candidates Candidates' for the Presidency A Washington A direct charge that bl big financial interests were trying to to hu buy the national con conventions of both the Republican und and Democratic parties was made In the tile senate on Mardi March 26 by hy Senator Borah Republican an Idaho In a speech advocating congressional action to regulate the pre coD expenditures of candidates tes for the presidency Concentrating his attack on the time backers of or Maj Gen Leonard Wood and Gov Coy Ii F. F O. O Low Lowden en for the Republican Republican Re Re- publican nomination Senator Borah Bomb declared the managers managers' er were attemptIng attempt- attempt Ing log to control the time convention con con- on- on by the time us use of mone money while the Lowden organization apparently was spending even greater sums to gain support for their candidate Within With With- in ten days he predicted two Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic aspirants whom he lie did not name would be found pending quite as much as any Republican in iii the field A The Time speech brought on a heated debate debate de do- bate during which Senator Moses Re Re- publican New Hamp Hampshire manager of General Woods Wood's Washing ton headquarters made a general denial that excessive excessive ex ex- ex- ex funds had been used In the Wood candidacy or that any money had been spent except pt legitimately and necessarily In the course of the debate the question of a third term for President President I dent deut Wilson was raised by Senator i Ashurst t. t Democrat Arizona who said saidI I that If any Rny Democrat were seeking a third term the time people ought to know of It and oppose It Senator Borah I replied that he lie had hind evidence which convinced him hm the time president was tryIng trying try try- ing lag for another nomination Senator Borah's speech was made in tim support of a bill Introduced to limit the time pre convention expenditures of any candidate to In each state to compel any person or corporation makIng making tanking mak tank ing a contribution of than to give e the time donation publicity through the time attorney general and to require each candidate to make public within fifteen days before the time convention and again within thirty days after the convention convention con con- a complete list of A fine and two years Imprisonment would be Imposed for violations |