Show DENIES CORRUPT MONEY Senator Step Stephenson enson on Stand in Investigation of His HisS S Election By Associated te pre Pres Milwaukee Oct 2 On On the tho witness stand sUnd s b before foro tho the senatorial n atInS at- at InS ing ng committee to answer charges that c corrupt use lIse of money had contributed t to o his Iris election United States mates tates Senator I Isaac Isaac- Stephenson toda today testified tha that although although- Ho lie spent In his campaign campaign cam he hc had hod little J knowledge as to lust just how it was spent extent that it was not used in violation of ot tho the law The rhe details ho said ijo io had loft left to hi hid camp amp campaign managers As an Instance of ot his Ignorance of Qt ja lust Just where tho money went vent he cited a an n item of oC for tor postage Now Xo said Senator Stephenson I Iam Im a am m president of more than a a. dozen a ac tive industries In state and I havon havo have In n my employment more moro than men ome some of ot whom havo been with mo me for tor fifty rIft years ars In them I have every ery con con- I do pot not pay 13 any attention to tho ho details details' o of oC industries Just so when my jay campaign n for nom nation by hy tho the primaries In 1908 1905 c camo mo up Jp I could not lie awake night trying to 0 o figure how tho tiso postage was used havo have given en mone money to my mr managers manager and mJ ni told them to carry carryon on a vigorous campaign and do everything e to elect mo me no except that tho they thos must keep within the he he law v I caution them not to vio VII late ate ato tho the Jaw law In n any particular So Soar Soar far ar as 08 I know the they obeyed me Resides Besides Senator J Heyburn eburn chairman he tho members of oC tho com corn hero here toda today wiro Senators George Sutherland Republican of ot Utah and Alice e Democrat of ot Ohio Charles harles of at Maine with W W. W E. E Dlack Black ot of Milwaukee will act as counsel for tor the tho defense The Tho formal charges against Senator Stephenson were resented presented In a dec dee l b by y John J J. J Blaine of ot Boscobel VIs Wis who as state stat senator made the original charges large |