The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-10-01
ROOSEVELT, MORGAN AND YOUNG
BLISS ALL TO BE HEARD
BY SUBCOMMITTEE.
BLISS RECORDS EXAMINED
Letter Sets Forth Fact That the Late
MIR. Bliss Regarded Contributors
Names Sacred and Confidential as
Secret Ballot Right.

Washington, Sept. 30.-The senate
committee investigating campaign
contributions renewed it's work today,
hearing first Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr.,
of New York
Mr.. Bliss, son of the late Cornelius
N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican
campaign fund in 1904, could not tell
the committee anything of the alleged
100000 contributions by the Standard
Oil company to Colonel Roosevelt's
fund of 1904, although he did put into
the record a letter from President
Roosevelt TO the Elder Bliss, in which
the colonel denied in emphatic terms
tnat funds had been accepted from
any persons or interests who might
ask tayors at the hands of the ad-
ministration.
The former private secretary TO the
late E. H. Hartman was to be the
nrst witness this afternoon. The COM
mittee expects to learn whether the
Hartman estate has any documentary
evidence of the raising of a $24O,00O
fund in 1904.
Senate subcommittee today renewed
its investigation of presidential cam
paign contributions. The committees
hearings are expected to bring many
of the nations leading financiers. pol
iticians and candidates to the witness
stand during the next two months.
Witnesses summoned for today were
ready when Chairman Clapp called
the sub committee together. Colonel
Roosevelt and j. p. Morgan are sched-
uled to step into the spotlight later
this week, the financiers appearing
on Thursday, and Colonel Roosevelt
on Friday.
OOmsby McHarg, who organized the
south for Mr. Roosevelt, was on hand
when the committee convened today.
His story of the pre- e-convention cam
paign and of the contests he man
aged for President Taft in the 1908
campaign and of the contests that he
managed for President Taft in the
1908 campaign were expected to be
the chief testimony. G. C. Tegethoff,
secretary of the late E. H. Hartman,
and Charles A. Peabody, Mrs. Harri-
mans personal counsel, We're to pro-
duce any papers they might have in
connection with the alleged raising of
$25O,000 in Wall strteet by Hartman
for the Roosevelt fund in 1901.
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., son OF the
treasurer of the republican campaign
committee in 1904, was called to pro-
duce any papers in the files OF his
fathers estate, bearing on the charge
that Colonel Roosevelt acquiesced in
the acceptance of 100000 from the
Standard Oil interests in 1904, and
in a further demand for $150,0OG from
the same source.
Bliss First Witness.
Senators Clapp, Oliver, Paynte. and
Pomerene were present when the
committee went into session. Mr.
Bliss was the first witness. He said
he was an executor of his fathers
estate and had sole custody O.? his
fathers papers.
Have you found any papers bear
ing on the campaign funds handled
by your father?" asked Chairman
Clapp.
Mr.. Bliss placed in evidence re-
port from the auditor who examined
his fathers accounts when he resign
: as treasurer of the republican COM
nittee. He said the records Gid not
show any contribution by John d.
Archbold or the Standard OIL com
pany Members of the committee ex-
ahmed Tho records.
Nc Names of Contributors.
no rames of contributors to the lers
campaign fund appeared in the rec
ords. Mr. Bliss was asked to relc Ms
fathers letter of resignation to Harry
S. New, which also had been placed
in evidence.
The letter set forth that the late
Mr.. Bliss had held as confidential the
names of contributors end the amount
Of their contributions in the last four
presidential campaigns IN which have
acted as treasurer"
II have persistently refused to
make these reports public" the letter
read, because I regard the relation,
of campaign contributions to party
committees as confidential. I believe
the right to refuse to make pubic