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Show "Never Saw List of Quotas As Shown By Cox," Upham Asserts . Utah Lir.ted As State Which Failed to Raise Enough for Own Republican Campaign; George White Says Democratic Chest is About Empty. CHICAGO, Aug. 51 Denial tind?r 'oath that he had tyver seen, heard of or ordered made up the It-" ol campaign cam-paign quotas assigned to various cltlesj iv charged h. iJbernor Cox In the lat-j ter'S recent speech aC I'lttsluirg. was' made todio by pfed Uppbam, treasurer of the Republican national committee. In tcstin,ony before the senatorial comrnlttee lnestlgatlng campaign expenses. Chairman yon or the committee called attention o the list, saying it totalled more than nno.000 "The first time l ever saw the list v as In the newspapers th.- day after! the Cox speech." said Mr. Uppham.l "Kurtnermore, no -ine in my office made up such o lis: with my knowledge knowl-edge or consent." Mr. Cppham also denied flatly that the official bulletin issued from his office to field workers engaged iti raising the Republican campaign fund 'Acre secr.-t or counselled secmcy. lie pointer' out that the only prohibition' in that respect referred to 'publishing lists oi contributors in local newspapers. newspa-pers. Such a list Was published In one City,'1 he said, "and several persons Objected to seeing their names in ISKNONf: 'I wo hanks In New 'ork. one In Chicago, one in Boston - and one in San Francisco, as well as two Individuals Indi-viduals h.i. contributed to the TtJ'J.-G'0 TtJ'J.-G'0 borrowed o the Itepublican na -t.oi-al couimlttee.j Mr. I ppbam told Sniutor Reed. The loans were made on authority of the parti executive committee und do not constitute a 1 -g; ribllgaifon oi which the lenders (.oul-i sue the committee menilii rtf, tne wUncsa said. The leiniers nod the amount the loan'.l the Cominitlec are Liberty Nationsl bank. New -York. fl-25.000. I-'t rst National b.inl.. Boston, i;0,-Oeii i;0,-Oeii oiitlnental and Commercial National Na-tional hank. CliiCsifio, $50,000. Chase National bank. New Vork, ?7 5.00.1 ''rocker National bank, Snu 1 i. n-cisco. n-cisco. $C6.000. Waller S. Dickey, $Jt..nou . l-'red W I'nohaiu. lio.uOi'. run i. oi b oNirrs. Before leaving the staiid Mr. Lpp-hcm. Lpp-hcm. cpjeslloio a b S notor Kenyon. et lered cutccoiioal lohlaj to GoVcr-P.o: GoVcr-P.o: Cox's charges that "special Interests" Inter-ests" were financing ih Republican campaign. 'Is atl campaign being ui.o.e an ong those who Me. k to control the federal reserve bank?" Senator Ken- Oll asked. "No." ' Is any campaign to raise mone-huliig mone-huliig conducted iimoue people wnn 'wain to put . own labor disputes with ! tit bayonet '" " No sir " "Have ou Inquired the price of bayonets?" bay-onets?" Senator It. -, luterjectetl "Yes, the- are ei ehe.-.o" ' LTAH .. t). P. I I V ICS. In ic;lng tho list or bums raised by states for national ana state campaigns. cam-paigns. Republican itf-.iBuri i I ppham litlel t'tuh among the eleven niutes Which failed to raise enougli lor their rtate campaigns A cording t6 tlio treasurer's figures, I'lah Republlcaqa contributed stvujj 41 und the national Kepubllcau cOrsmlt-10 cOrsmlt-10 contributed ILioJ. inaklng the total to-tal ; O I'. fund iii l lah SR733 I ) Idaho also failed m raise enough to meet stute expenses, he said, and the national committee gave Idaho : j;-4V . 50. n demand of Senator Reed the committee sent Mr. 1'ppham back to his office to product the much dpl-n dpl-n ussed ' quota sheet" showing the ainOUnt each state Was asked to raise for both national and state campaign Hi CP08M . Mr (Jpphaffl was instructed lo be hack at o'clock with the evidence demanded, ami Representative 3 D. D'ess, chairman of tbP Republican con-i con-i resslonal committee, was ualled to ihe sin nd Senator Reed also instructed the treasurer to prodtici all records show-m;k; show-m;k; The Hems making up the sggre-i sggre-i it) sums of the national budgel The' names of all speakers who are to lc pnld, with the amounts they arc to re-; re-; eclve. ''ontract for billboard advertising Contracts for advertising In foreign i language raoers. BIUXTHN ON LRILL Pred A. Brltton. Illinois congreis-n,-in failed to produce anv evidepcej tp support his recent . harge that .$V7.-5oo .$V7.-5oo subscribed by tho British govern-1 ment for entertainment purposes'' at the British embassy in Washington, lu.d found its way into the DemjorratlC national conptmutce's fund; Under a grilllm: examlnafJ'n by Senators Itced and Pomerenc PemPr crais. Mr Britten admiited li, hjid uoj facts to support the charge ani lhal It WAS onU his person. if idea. '."II 1 i: I'lATK ni:w. Mr. Britten asked tin pom nif subpeia Thomas W. l-imom owner ti? the New York Post, the heads 0f DoubleAy, I'.ige and contpaay pnb- liafiera and officials of th Western Newspaper I nion. a syndicate supply-ii supply-ii e boil.-r pl.'ite" o newspapers. He presented an advance proof sent by plate syndicate to newspapers offering of-fering them, frer of charge, with shipping ship-ping ' barges prepaid plates of a story 'cle.i - I'rcle Sam of Kree.iom Ridge " which Is siild to be an argument argu-ment in favor of the league" of nations. na-tions. He said he believed British in-Le in-Le rests were financing league propaganda. propa-ganda. The committer, summoned the l..id of the Western Newspaper Union. I ESS I N ST M) Representative S D. Fess, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign cam-paign committee, confirmed Fred W-i W-i pphama testimony that Ihe congr-s-sional comm'tte-. w-is seeking to raise 5 i-O 0,000 Independently of the national ct mpaigri committee. Ol this sum he ri'.d $1011,000 was for use In the pres-ent pres-ent campaign. He said the committee hod re-r:veii re-r:veii one contribution Of $roioo and two of 2640 each. Tho average contribution con-tribution was $40. Mr. PflSS said. Mr. PmU raised a laugh when he testified that his Republican committee commit-tee was sending out copies of hg - w " -s' -i ' P- urocra . N( U IIEH MVsl KKX, Miles H. McMltlai Chicago manager i. n te W) ii rn Newspaper I nion, was una I lo to tell the .committee who paid ills concern for the proposed distribution distribu-tion of n flciion serial devoted to the b ague cf nations and which was in ought to the' committee's attention ,, ReprcsenfJrdJvi Britten earlier. He .-ivdred to telegraph K C Johnson, .ev. Vork manager of the union The f.enajars evidenced considerable -es' ii,"tii.- methods of the new6-puner new6-puner concern, th questions bringing Nui thai re. lers of the rountr.v papers iKing the plate srivice had ijo means or knowing who iald for ir. Mi. Mc-Vllllan Mc-Vllllan told Senator ftenyon that the union had hrrinjaled tho Mount Clemens Clem-ens N'evv.H BuCQJiu set'Vlce on the Kord ni el suit hut hud tent out nothing on Iho lull In congress to rcgui.it.- the hacker WHITE A M M) George White, Democratic national chairman, was culled to the ttand and testified W- i cochnu, pubneit) man o- the committee, had i.'sksd him to approve a plan for Minding uic story, I eel,. Sum of Pj'Seflom Illdge," to ceuntry newspapers. I He told Cochran, he s.if, te, get priced which he estimated atlj,16.OO0 He had heard nothing more of t!-.e matter until K was brought up befdre t h - ommittee tie ihl Senator Edge asked f It vas not a violation of the corrupt practice act u - ni the s'ory oul with nothing in .-'i.e.. w ho laid for It. Mr White declined lo answer without with-out first -ot)suitlng an attorney lKMOf3RATS POOR CHICAGO, Aug 31. Troasun.s ..f I In Republican and Democratic na-llonal na-llonal conimlUees today folio Veel uj ' he committee chairmen in answering the queries of the senate committee about campaign cont rlhul ions a tx-p. tx-p. ndit ores. Churlman George AVhlle. of the Dcmocrallc national coniinltte. was n hand todav to supplement the Information In-formation glwn .he committee jester-dny jester-dny bv former hairman 1 loner S. i 'umti'.ings. Democratic campatgi pon-Irlbutlons pon-Irlbutlons to date total only ISnDOO Mr. bite said he would tell theiloin-ii theiloin-ii itlee. "Actually th.- Democratic com n itiee ' so i r I almost hate to cpnfesrft,'' Mr. White said. "We have ansldy spent practically all the money fjtb-scrfbed. fjtb-scrfbed. I bayve steppe-: into pinrtis.i i.ctntlv that I have no final palgn cost estimate to preafoL" Wilbur Marsh, DeihoCratlt natjpml treasure, and Frederick w. I'ppinn. Republican national treasurer. irday's chief witnesses before the cnn'r mittec. oft I |