The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-04
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington, September 30, 1912.

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A large proportion of those men who
have been prominent in the political af
fairs of this nation for the past ten years
will be summoned as witnesses before
| the Campaign Contribution investigating
| Committee. Daily additions are being
made to the long tentative list The
number selected already exceeds eighty.
The committee met here on FRIDAY
last. September 27th, and carefully ex.
amined the proposed list of witnesses.
Other names will be suggested by each
member of the committee. 1t is certain
that more than 100 persons will be ex-
amined before the hearings are dis
missed. The hearings will commence
on Monday September goth.
Senator Clapp announced that Friday.
October 4th, would be set apart by the
committee for the appearance of Colonel
Roosevelt.
Subpoenas have been sent to New
York for service on General Counsel
Elliott and the Secretary of the Stand
ard Oil Company in connection with the
inveStig alton of John ID. Archbold's
statements that he contributed 500. 1000
to the Roosevelt fund of 1904 in behalf
v.
officials are required to produce any
papers that they may have bearing
on the transaction, the committee having
called them in an effort to discover the
receipt which Mr.. ArChbold said had
been given him by Cornelius n. Bliss,
then Treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
The broad character OF the investiga-
ton is indicated In the class of wit
nesseS. Among them are manufacturers
and others interested in important indus
tries.
1t is understood that the purpose of
summoning J. Pierpont Morgan and
Wayne MacNeagh is to question them
regarding the charges made by Charles
Edward Russell, Socialist candidate
for Governor in New York, that Mr.
Morgan had been asked by Col. Roose-
welt to contribute a certain amount to
his campaign fund in 1904. Both Mr.
Morgan and Mr.. MacVeagh have denied
the statement
The list of witnesses as prepared up
to this time includes:
Theodore Roosevelt, former President
of the United States; John d. Archbold,
active head of the Standard Oil Com
pany; !. Pierpont Morgan, leading hnan-
Cial magnate of this country; E. T. SLOT
esbury, Philadelphia partner of Mr.
Morgan; Thomas F. RYAN, head of the
Tobacco Trust and other corporations;
George w. Perkins, organizer of the
Harvester Trust; Frank A. Munsey,
holder of large interests in the Steel
Trust; Judge Alton B. Parker, Demo
cratic candidate for President in Ioo4
Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster Gen
eral and Republican National Chairman
in 1908; Charles ID. Hlles, present
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee; Joseph NJ. Dixon, Senator
and manager of Theodore Roosevelts
f. H. Gary, head of the
Steel Trust; Henry c. Frick, founder
of the Steel Trust; Joseph G.. Cannon,
Ex-Speaker of the House of Repre-
Paul Augustine, J. Mahlon
Barnes, August Belmont, New York,
contributor to the Parker fund in 1904;
George B. Cortelvou, Republican Ma
tional Chairman in 1904; w. S. Cow
Depew; ex-senator {. H. Duell, New
York, Theodore Roosevelt worker;
Samuel Dickle, Treasurer Prohibition
National Committee in 1904; lanes H.
Ferris, Charles w. Hail. John p Wood,
Boston; NJ. T FolwelI, Boston; Joseph
B. Grundy, Bristol, Pa; B. F. Jones, Jr.,
Pittsburgh, steel manufacturer; Henry
L. Towne, New York; Eugene N. Foss,
Governor of Massachusetts; John Kirby,
IT,, Dayton, Ohio; George Calvert,
James J. O'Donnell, J. F. Farley, Her
man Ridder Treasurer National Demo
cratic Committee in 1905; Ex-Governor
Benjamin B. Odell Jr,, of New York;
Henry Kuhn, Senator Boise Penrose,
William r. Hearst, publisher of the
Standard Oil letters; William Loeb. IT.,
formerly Colonel Roosevet's private
secretery; Ormsby McHarg, worker for
Colonel Roosevelt in the G.. O. P. Con-
vention in 1905
John w. Wise, Congressman from
Massachusetts; II. l.. Nichols, manager
of Governor Harmon'S candidacy for the
Presidential nomination, VIM. p Nc
Combs, Chairman Democratic National
Committee; c. ~ Bliss, IT,. son of the
late Treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional COMMITTEE; Frederick T. Dubois,
manager of Speaker Ciark's campaign
| tor the Presidential nomination; c. p.
| Iones; Norman +. Mack, Chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee in
1908; William Mailly; William B. Nc.
Kinley, President Tafts manager; Felix
McWhister; James S. Lloyd, Chairman
| Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee; George F. Peabody, Treas
urer Democratic National Committee ir
1904; Nathan B. Scott, ex-senator; Geo
K. Sheldon. Chairman of the Republican
National Committee; Q. T. Stewart
William f. Sheehan, New York, prom
inent in the Parker campaign; Frederick
| Schweldtman, Saint Louis; c. F. Wash
burn; Senator John II. Bankhead man
ager of O. W. Underwood's campaign
for the Presidential nomination; Wayn,
MacVeagh, ex-Attorney General; EloI
| II. Hooker, Treasurer of the Nationa
Progressive party; William Finn, Pitts
burg Pa, Bull Moose leader; William
Whitman, Boston, a leading figure in thu
woollen industry; William NJ. Wood
President of the Woolen Trust; Edward
f. Greene, Boston; John c. Mccall
New York; Charles Nj. Harding, Boston
John Moore; David f. Thompson, Lin
coin, Nebraska, ex-Ambassador to Mex
leo; d. p. Challenger, Saint LOUIS; las
r. Day, Chancellor of Syracuse Uni
versity; c. c. Tegethof, private secre
tary to the late Z. Fl. Hartman.
William Rockefeller, of the Standar,
Oil Company will give his testimony i
deposition.
Ex- Congressman Joseph c. Sibley, {
Pennsylvania, probably will not b
called before the committee to explain
the letters that he is alleged to hav