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Show NEWBERRY CASE TO BEREOPEHED QROSS USE OF MONEY QIVEN A3 REASON FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION INVES-TIGATION OF SENATOR Automobile Builder Claims He Is Ablo to Prove $176,000 Spent In Election; Investigation to be Thorough and Final nshlngton. NotliwIthsttuulliiK tho supreme court decision freeing Senntor 'rruninn II. Newberry of Michigan, the senute prlvllugea and election committee com-mittee decided Tuesday to reopen tho case mid thorougly Investigate tho charges that ho won his sent In the senute sen-ute by extravagant nnd unlawful expenditure ex-penditure of money. The supremo court set aside tho conviction con-viction of Senator Newberry on tho ground tlmt Hie section of tho lmv regulating reg-ulating senatorial primaries was unconstitutional. uncon-stitutional. The Investigation now to bo made will cover the expendlurea made In Senntor Newberry's behnlf In the election campaign. Alfred Lucking attorney for Henry Ford, the uutoinoblle manufacturer of Detrlot, told the privileges and elcc-tlnos elcc-tlnos committee' that ho would ho able to provt that "two or three times $170,-000 $170,-000 wns spent In Mr. Newberry's ho-half." ho-half." It had previously been charged tlmt Newberry's expenditures wore $170,000. Lucking declnrod that evidence evi-dence would nlso be supplied to show thnt prnctlcnlly nil tho money enmo fro the Newberry estate. Senator Townsend of Michigan urgod the committee to drop the enso. He declnrod thnt Senntor Newberry wns the victim of persistent persecution. When tho Investigation wan completed, ho predicted, there would ho no proof .of wrong-doing on Newberry's pnrt. Senntor Townsend asserted that Henry Ford's demand for n senatorial investigation wns merely a schouio to get Senntor Newberry on the stand nnd cross-examine nnd humiliate him. A special subcommittee wns nppolnted nppolnt-ed to conduct the Inquiry. Tt will consist con-sist of Senator Spenrer of Missouri, chairmen : Senator Watson of Indlnnn, Senntor Edge of New Jersey, Senator Pomerne of Ohio und Senator Wolcott of Delaware. The subcommittee will hold Its first meeting Friday lo organize organ-ize the pi nn of procedure for tho Inves-tlRrttirmi- ' ".-- hiiii .w. |
