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Show I ; eeee DEAF EAR TURNED TO APPEAL TOR LORD MAYOR Committee Digs Up i More Facts on Coin For Political Battle i . CHI AG! I . S' pt 2 The senate com-mlttie com-mlttie Investigating campaign expenditures expend-itures adjourned shortlv after noon KrilhpUt having heard E. H Moore oi Ohio Governor ( ox's personal representative repre-sentative bhainnan Kenyon an-noimced an-noimced that the committee would i meet in Chicago next Ttipsday, September Sep-tember 7, to hear Moore and other wit- ' nesscs. St nator keoyon ssJd the decision to recess until Tuesday was reached to permit several members of (he coui-mittee coui-mittee to keep engagements elsewhere Saturday and on Labor day. Mr Moore, who was present throughout through-out the session, was requested lo come back Tuesday with the evidence of an alleged Republican plan to raise $15,- QlMI.IHHI MOORE PREPARED. Mr Moore told newspapermen that he was prepared to prove that the Republican Re-publican leaders announced public!) lat January that thev expected to raise a $16,000,000 campaign fund. They have changed Linixiln'n aphor ism from 'a government by the people to 'government buy the people.' Mr Moore said. The morning session was devoted to testimony bj Miles Polndetter, sens tor from Washington, and chairman of : Republican iehutcrial commit; and Herman V. Henke treasurer ot the National Young Men's Republican lej . "tie POINDEXTER ON STAND Senator Pnlndexier slated his com mlttee planned to raise about $200,000 tor senatorial campaigns and expected to make a fight in some L'O stales. Senator Reed questioned I he witness about the overhead expenses of the bureau and brought out that after meeting such charges, an average of !houi S'.iOOti would b- left for the cam paign in each of the 20 states. Mi lienuke said his organisation had raised approximately ?19'0 in J: subscriptions from honorary vice presi gents The league hoped to have about $100,000 in 20 slates, he said, and had negotiated with the Republican nation al committee in nn ettnrt lo obtain 11 nancial assistance, but nothing came oi the conferences . CHICAGO, SeplL'S- Members of the senate committee Investigating campaign cam-paign expenditures and contribution! today expected to receive the data on v hlch Governor Coj based his barges ihai the Republicans were raising a l&,000i000 campaign fund. K II Moore, of Youngstown. O.. Cox s prc-I prc-I convention manager, will appear with documents furnished bv Governor Cox according to word received by the ommlttee. Ope of the oth r witnesses to be called today Is Si nator Pal Harrison. ban loan of tin I mm l alic speakers bureau. Wilbur Marsh. Democratic national treasurer told the committee yesterday the Democrats thus far had proposed only 1100,000 for the speaking speak-ing campaign Senator Spencer asked Marsh if the expenses of Governor Cox's special train on the coming western trip would not cost about $30.- 000 and Marsh said it would be about $30,000 to start with. Further investigation Into the Ro- publtoan year book being published by William hamcs, of the III ban j Evening Eve-ning Journal, will be undertaken bj the committee next week In Pittsburg, Ii was announced todav bv Senatoi Kenyon. Mr Barnes will he subpoenaed to appear at the Pittsburg meeting. It was announced. polvdi s rER W I rXESS Miles j Poindexter, of W ashington 1 . cent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and chairman ot the Republican senatorial ommlttee, ommlt-tee, told the Investigators today lhat the $1,000 which his committee sent B. 0 VVollerj Republican candidate for the senate from Maryland was no: an example ot the general practice of 'he committee. "There Is no fixed rule or system by which candidates are helped." explained ex-plained Senator l olndexter "We supply sup-ply funds for campaign activities upon Which We have agreed with the candidal can-didal and his campaign organization " Senator Kenyon brought out lhat the senatorial committee had an arrangement by which the forun i -maximum campaign fund of 20Q,000 v. a guaranteed by the- national committee. com-mittee. In return ill moneys collected by the senatorial committee are turned o.o k to the national treasury of the party Senator Poindexter said lb ueided that Senator Frelinghuyson, of 'cv Jeral y, is chairman of a sub-oommlttee sub-oommlttee In charge of collecting funds and that be In turn had organized organ-ized an auxiharv committee headed by Klliott WadSWOrth, of New York. "They have not raised any money to speak of." -.aid Senator Poindexter, and Senator Reed of the Investlgal ing com m it tee supplemented this w ith the remark "not yet." DIVIDED AMONG BTATES Senator Pomcrene. said that the $200,000 If divided equally among the thirty-two states in which senatorial elections arc to be held LhU fall, would! average $6,250 to the state and he then, calb-rl attention to the federal status limiting campaign expends of a -senatorial candidate to 110,000 except in' state s wheer a lower limit had been set by status. I "Now In view of the $17C,000 ex-j pended In Michigan for a nomination did ybur committee think that $200 - 000 was a reasonable sum for all the senatorial elections asked the hlo senator I "I was fairly rcasogable so fnr as the purposes of ur i ommlttee were concerned," responded Senator Poln-dester Poln-dester I lie agreed .With Senator Pomerene 'that organisations within the states' probably would spend some money ofi their own Senator Reed and Poindexter agreed that there had been some moral im-l , provement in politics In the last eight' years, the former assigning as the ri-a-SOU that 'the courts have been In action ac-tion in some cases.' FUND IS MIA CE "Would vou regarel the existence of a campaign fund or $15,000,000 as a menace;" asked Senator Reed. ' I would," said the witness andi idded that a fund of $5,000,000 would i ' be" "an a bus,. ' How about a fund of $4,800,000?" was the next question from Senator Reed "That is too large in my personal opinion." replied Senator Poindexter. Senator Kenybn referred to the Democratic fund of $2,300,000 In 1916 and the probable doubling ot cost since and then obtained from Si nator Poindexter Poin-dexter a promise tha. he would let the committee know "anything he found out about thai $ 1 5.O00.O00. " I IG11T F R sl M iRs 1 Senator Reed and Pomerene quee-tioned quee-tioned Senator Poindexter at length as lo Republican campaign funds and developed that there were approXi- motsla twenty states in which the party expected to make a fight for the, B natorlal elections. After much ques-j lioiiirg, .'na'or Reed opined lhat af-; ter the Republican senatorial com-i mittoe had paid tor its own expenses and work that an average of $9,0001 of its funds would be available for dl- j reel use In each of the 20 states. Senator Sena-tor Poindexter remarked that the Mis-surl Mis-surl senator's use of the word "overage" "over-age" covered a wldi range but he would not agree that some states would receive as much as $10,000. "There has been a good deal of sneering lu re at th idea of Us being possible to buy the American elector-i ate " uld Senator Reed. Do you believe be-lieve thai money can be corruptly used In SUCh a fashion as to change the result re-sult ef a presidential or senatorial election" elec-tion" "That opens a wide field of speculation." specula-tion." said Senator Roinibxter "But far as national Campaigns are concerned, con-cerned, the vigilante exercised by both parties would make it very likely that defeat veould come to any port) which attempted corruption ' |