New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22

said that, as he remembered IL, ne gave
$4,000 or $4,000 to the 1904 fund.
Whenever Mr.. Bliss would get short or
funds would get low" he said, II would
make 4 contribution Of 5000 or $1,000
Chairman Clapp asked OF what contri-
buttons Mr.. Perkins knew outside his
own.
IT was connected with the New YORK
Life Insurance Company and I knew OF
that company's contribution" said Mt
Perkins, who produced a long statement
regarding the contributions Of the insur'
ance company which the committee per-
mitted him to read into the record.
Defends Insurance Company's Gift.
Mr.. Perkins grew particularly earnest
as. concluding the statement, he read:
[ believed at the time and have always
since believed, that in this transactlor
Mr. Mccall did exactly right; that ne
would have been untrue Z his trust wear
and cowardly had he taken any othei
course. There is no question but tha'
the thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS, dastardIy
attacks upon Mr.. Mccall by certain por'
lions of the sensational press OF the coun-
try brought about his untimely oeatl
vet II is a most significant fact that In al
this criticism Of both him and me not a
single policyholder, so far as | am aware
out Of the many thousands In the New
York Life ever wrote single letter OF
criticism or complaint OF what we dld
either to Mr.. Mccall or myself.
without any law or regulation TO gulcs
us. impressed with the great responslbllit!
we were carving, firmly believing that
the Democratic party was advocating
financial theories which. If enacted into
laws, would most seriously AFFECT the as
sets Of the policvholders Of the New YORK
Life, both Mr.. Mccall and l did our duty
as we saw II.
Mr.. Perkins said that for the New York
LII, Insurance Company ne advanced 10
Mr.. Bliss s4s,5OO, for which he was reim-
bursed by the company. Later, when
the insurance Investigation began, he re-
turned the money 10 the company.
Letters relating to n contribution OF
5000 which Mr. Bliss asked Mr. Perkins
to send TO Senator Beverage for use in
the Indiana campaign were read.
Senator Beverage returned the
money" said Mr. Perkins. Saying that
he had been able TO finance his campaign
himself"
Perkins in Favor Of Publicity.
When the le0S campaign was reached In
the examination of Mr.. Perkins the wit
ness spoke at length on the subject Of
publicity OF campaign contributions, as
sorting that he had been working to that
end for years.
I'm the Hanna campaigns and the 1904
campaign urged publicity" he said. but
without much result. When 1895 came
along / thought the time was ripe for
publicity. ] kept after Mr.. Hitchcock, the
national committee chairman, all the
summer before election, urging plans for
publicity"
The fnancier produced typewritten
pages OF memoranda" which he said he
had submitted TO the Republican National
Committee.
one memorandum outlined plan for
collecting contributions from men OF
means all over the country. In 1t Mr..
Perkins said that outside OF New York,
Chicago. Philadelphia and Boston. the
cities of the country have practically
never been asked 10 contribute"
Another memorandum 10 Chairman
Hitchcock on September ls, 1903. urged
that the contributions and expenditures
of the Republican National Committee be
made public before election.
Mr.. Perkins denounced as an "unm.ti-
gated falsehood" the charge that he had
underwritten the Roosevelt pre-convention
campaign this year in the sum Of 10000.
He testified that his total contributions
were $l22JJO. Rising from the witness
chair and shaking his clenched fist Mr..
Perkins Shouted:
Among the long list Of unmitigated
Hes throughout this campaign that state
ment perhaps ought 10 be placed at the
top, because II is largest.
Wants Penrose to Retrset.
Il was in hope that Senator Penrose
would be here this morning. lie made
that statement on the floor OF the Senate
and he ought to be required to prove II,