The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-03
PAID SlO7,OOO
 FOR A TOGA
SENATOR STEPHENSON ADMITS 1T COST HIM THAT FOR HIS
 OMINATioN
Did Not Ask His Campaign Managers What They Did With This Vast Sum of
 Money.

Milwaukee, Wis. october 2-On the witness stand before the sena- torial Investigating committee foi three hours to answer charges that bribery and corrupt use of money had contributed to his election, United States Senator Isaac Stephenson to- day testified that although he spent 1 $107,793 in his campaign. he had ll;- tie knowledge as to just how it was spent, except that it was not used in violation of the law. The details, he said, he had left to his campaign managers.
 As an instance of his ignorance of just where the money went, he cited an item of $l1OOO for postage.
 Now" declared Senator Stepnen- son, q am president of more than q dozen active industries in this state and have in my employ more than 5000 men, some of whom have been with me for 50 years. In them | have every confidence don't pay any attention to the details of these industries. Just so. when my cam paign for nomination by the prl- maries in 1908 came up could not lay awake nights trying to figure how the postage was used | gave sums of money to my managers and to q them to carry on a vigorous cam paign and do everything to elect me, except that they must keep within the law. oautined them not to violate uhe law in any particular. So far as I know, they obeyed me-
 Citing proportionately large ex- penses for advertising. buttons, litho- graphs, advertising in newspapers. and travellng expenses, the witness testified he frequently asked where so much money was going, but upon being told that it was close fight, and the state mad to be systematically canvassed to elect him, he questioned the matter no further.
 Two points, as being the position or the defense ill the inquiry which is being conducted by a subcommittee of the senate committee on prlys.- eges ana elections, were made enown by Charles E. Littlefield, counsel for MT. Stephenson. One was that the committee had no authority to investigate the primary campaign of 1908. at which MT Stephenson was nominated, but mus, eon6ne itself to questions whether the senator actu- ally expended money for his election by the state legislature in 1909 He asserted that all the money was spent in the nomination and not a dollar went to the election. Another declaration was that MT. Stephenson was elected by the legislature. when both houses voted separately on Jan- urary 26. 1909, and that the subse- quent election by the legislature joint on March I, lt09, when three democratic members absented them selves and so gave MT, Stephenson a majority was not necessary. The committee announced that at presen. it would not confine itself to any of the limitations thus set forth.
 Continuing his testimony Mir. Ste- phenson declared he had given for campaign purposes to men who aft- enwards became candidates for the legislature and some of them were elected, but he was not aware of their candidacy when he gave them money
 "Iihe record shows you paid out to your managers one day $1O,OO0 and short time afterward gave them sl5,000 more" said Senator w. B. Hepburn, chairman. Didn't you every asb what they were doing with ali iqiat money.
 No, only in general way"
 'Bn October 1908. more than a monta after the primary you gave Puelicher, one of your managers sev- eral thousand dollars didn't you in- quire as to what he wanted it forg'
 No, l supposed 1t was for some bill They didn't always presest bills promptly. In the same way. 1 gave ! Earl Morgan, my son-in-law, S2500 for campaign expenses.
 Did you pay three democratic members or anyone for aDsenting themselves from the legislature on