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Show IhVH IH I."-"1 '"'"- "" "' ' ""-"H '," Hi mill Tells Investigating Committee Com-mittee of Donating to ! La Follette Fund ; Washington, Oct. 7 Six witnesses i Tsore read j to testify when the Clappj committee Investigating campaign funds rosumed work today They were Lewis Hammerllng, Ofiden Mills and Charles Edward Russell of New York: Charles R. Crane. Chicago; Matthew Uale, Boston, and former; Senator Nathan B Scott, West Virginia. An account of the receipts and expenses ex-penses of Senator I a. Follette's campaign cam-paign for the Republican presidential nomination Avas filed with the committee com-mittee today showing the senator collected col-lected 503,960 3G and spent $63,901.50. Chnrlcs R. Crane as the largest contributor, is credited with $23,000 gleu in screial Installments extending extend-ing over the period from December 11, 1911, to June 17, 1912 Glfford Pinchot. Amos Pinchot and Representative Represen-tative William Kent of California, each ; contributed ?10,u00; Alfred S Baker gave $2 000, Rudolph Spreckela, $3.,-000, $3.,-000, William Fllnn of Pennsylvania, $1,000 and Senator La Follette hlm-solf hlm-solf ?1.500. The account entries of two loans, one of S1.000 by "Medlll Mc-Cormlck Mc-Cormlck and one of ?n60 by Senator Grenna of North Dakota. Both were marked "repaid." 1 What Accounts Show. The -accounts show $10,S17.03 wa8 paid for the Washington headquarters and the Chicago headquartehs spent $10,450. La Kollette'a expenses at the Republican national convention were ?1,55S.13. and the Progressive conference confer-ence held in Chicago cost Ihc La Folio Fol-io tto managers $C3S.7n Charles R. Crane of Chicago told the committee today that ho gave nearly 527,000 to Senator La Follette's campaign and 310,000 to Governor Wilson's. Treasurer Hooker of the Progressive party testified last week that Mr Crane gac 570,000 to Wilson ' and la Folletto at the same time. I I cms N Hammerllng. president or the Association of Foreign Newspa-' Newspa-' pers. testified concerning an advertising advertis-ing contract of $5,500 by the Roose-Aelt Roose-Aelt managers, coor!ng advertising In 1 thirty foreign newspapers for "Roosevelt "Roose-velt delegates ' In the New York primary pri-mary fight. John J Hannan, secretary of Senator Sen-ator Lu Follette. reforring to E. H. I Hooker's statement that Mr. Crane i had given $70,000 to the La Follette i fund. r.ald the onlv amount he knew of Mr. Crane giving above that en-I en-I tered. which, he said, was $3,1 SI 40, Included In the statement of the Chl-, Chl-, cago bureau and given to make up a deficit. There wore funds, he said, , in states with which he had-nothing ' to do. Mentioned Tucker. He mentioned 11. N. Tucker, of Courtney, N. D., Alfred L. Baker. Huron, Hu-ron, S." D.. and Thomas McCuster. Portland, Ore . as being among those who conld account for expenditures ' not reported to the national headquarters. head-quarters. "The expenses of the California campaign." said the witness, "were borne largely by Rudolph Spreckela, who made no accounting to me." I Senator Pomerene called attention to the statement by Hooker that Mr. Crane had "up to a certain date given giv-en $70,000 to the La Follette campaign." , "There was not such amount contributed." con-tributed." said Mr. Hannan. He mentioned "personal contributions" made to Senator La Follette. one of $2,500 bv Mr. SprecKlcs. Charles H. Crano testified he gave ?2C GS-J 10 o Senator La Follette's campaign, and $10,000 to Goernor Woodrow Wilson's fund before the Baltimore convention. "Are these all tho contributions you made, either to Senator La Folletto or to Governor Wilson?" asked Senator Sen-ator Clapp. "Ye3, sir all." Wilson Gets $10,000. Ho said h gave the $10,000 for Governor Wilson to William F. Mc-Cooiuhs, Mc-Cooiuhs, his manager, n two installments, install-ments, March 28 aud April 30. 1912 He denied having told Hooker ho had contributed $70,000 to each. "I Just wanted to have one progressive progres-sive succeed," said Mr. Crane- "I didn't caro which one it was." Mr. Crane said he had been attacked at-tacked "throughout the west" during t'TM U I llllllll II IT"11" m..m j ii imt-wrw 11 the campaign as "head of the bath tub truat." Ho declared he had no connection with the organization. "I could very well suppoit both Wilson and La Follette as both men are progressive." pro-gressive." said Mr. Crano. "That I was contributing to both funds was known to the managers of the two campaigns. I made no secret of the fact," When harles Edward Russell, Socialist So-cialist candidate for governor o Xe-York, Xe-York, took the stand Chairman Clapp read to him a report of one or his speeches in a Ne-a York paper, describing de-scribing an alleged telephone conversation conver-sation hetween J, P. Morgan and the White House during the 1904 campaign, cam-paign, in which-Mr Morgan was -asked for a $100,000 contribution to the Republican campalsn fund. The pub llshed report said Wayne MacVeagh, former attorney general was a witness wit-ness to the conversation. ,- Wrltor Is CaMed. Mr RiiHsell said tho story came to hliu 1m 1910 from Judson C. Wc-lliver. a magazine writer, who told him he hud the story fiom Mr MaoVeagh Welllver, workiiig at the reporter s table, was called to the stand and said Mr MacYen'gh had told him of being in Mr Morgan's private office in 1904, that Morgan had been callnd to the telephono and was informed E. H Harrlman wished to apeak to him. Welllver testified Mr. .MacVeagh told him when Mr Morgan returned from the telephone he said- "What do von suppose that man In the White House wants'' It seems that Harriman has gone off down there to Washington and dined with h'lm and now he conieH back and says tna. the president ants him to raise more campaign funds. He has given $Ti0. 000 and now he wants me to give $50.-000." $50.-000." Mr. MaoVeagh. according to tbe witness, wit-ness, told him that Mr. Morgan wrote a check for $50,000. which he sent u Mr Harrlman's office. Mills on Stand. Ogden L Mills, treasurer of tho Taft organization In Nww York state, In the pre-conventlon campaign this yeaj, produced an accounting of money mon-ey paid him by the National Taft league for the New York primaries. He said the largest expenditure wa-. for detectives to prevent fraudulent voting Ho said the eastern branch of the National Taft league organized by Timothy 1. Woodruff, raled about 44,000. spent in the primary Mr. Mills denied a statement credited credit-ed to B H. Hooper that "30.000 vote:, were cast for 'Roosevelt delegated in the March jirlmarles and were not counted. "The coachors were fully watched b. Roosevelt and the colonel's dotec-tlves," dotec-tlves," fcald the witness. In one district, ho said, a man who had his leg amputated on election day was recorded ns having voted, in" tho fourth election district, ho said, the record showed tLat tho usual 10C votes cast wore cast in perfect alphabetical order. Mr. Mills was excused and tho committee com-mittee adjourned until tomorrow. rr |