The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-04
WASHINGTON.
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the Capital.
Washington. September 30. 1912.


the Campaign Contribution lnvestigatin,
Committee. Daily additions are beinj
made To the long tentative list Thr
number selected already exceeds eighty
The committee met here on Frida,
last, September 27th, and carefully ex
amined the proposed list of witnesses
Other names will be suggested by eacl
member of the committee. 1t is Certam
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
investigation of John d. Archbold's
statements that he contributed 500. 600
to the Roosevelt fund of 1904 in behalf
of the Standard Oil Company. The two
! 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 tine
receipt which MIR. Archbold said had
been given him by Cornelius n. Bliss,
then Treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
The broad character OF the lnvestiga-
ton Is indicated III 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 certain amount to
his campaign fund in 1904. Both Mr.
Morgan and Mr.. MacNeagh 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 finan-
Cial magnate of this country; +. +. Stot-
Morgan; Thomas +. RYAN, head of the
L
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 d. Hilles, present
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee; Joseph NJ. Dixon, Senator
and manager of Theodore Roosevelts
campaign; E. 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-
sentatives; Paul Augustine, !. Mahlon
Barnes, August Belmont, New York,
contributor to the Parker fund IN 1904;
George B. CorIelvou, Republican Ma
tional Chairman in 1904; w. S. Cow
herd, Congressman; Chauncey M.
Depew; ex-senator {. H. Duell, New
York, a Theodore Roosevelt worker
Samuel Dickle, Treasurer Prohibition
National Committee in 1904; lanes H.
Ferris, Charles w. Hail. John p Wood,
Boston; NJ. T Folwell, 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, !, F. Farley, Her
man Ridder Treasurer National Demo
cratic Committee in 1908; 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, Jr.,
formerly Colonel Roosevelts private
secretery; Ormsby McHarg, worker for
| Colonel Roosevelt in the G.. O. P. Con
vention in 1908.
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. n. Bliss, IT., son of the
late Treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Commtte; Frederick T. Dubois
manager of Speaker Ciarks campaign
Tor the Presidential nomination; c. P
Iones; Norman +. Mack, Chairman o
the Democratic National Committee il
1908; William Mailly; William B. Nc
Kinley, President Tait's manager; Fell,
| McWhister; James S. Lloyd, Chairman
Democratic Congressional Campaigl
Committee; George f. Peabody, Treas
urer Democratic National Committee il
1904; Nathan b. Scott, ex-senator; Geo
r. Sheldon. Chairman of the Republican
National Committee; Q. 7. Stewart
William +. Sheehan, New York, prom
inent in the Parker campaign; Fredericl
Schwedtman Saint Louis; G.. F. Wash
burn; Senator John II. Bankhead, man
ager of O. w. Underwood's campaig
for the Presidential nomination; Wayn
MacVeagh, eX-Auorney- General; Flo
II. Hooker, Treasurer of the Nationa
Progressive party; William Finn, Pitts
burg Pa, Bull Moose leader; William
Whitman, Boston, leading figure in tn
woollen industry; William NJ. Wood
President of the Woollen Trust; Edwar
+. Greene, Boston; John c. Mccall
New York; Charles NJ. Harding, Bostor
John Moore; David +. Thompson, Lir
coin, Nebraska. ex-Ambassador to Men
leo; d. P. Challenger Saint LOUIS; Jas
r. Day, Chancellor of Syracuse I'm
! versity; c. c. Tegethof, private secrt
tary to the late E. II. Hartman.
: William Rockefeller, of the Stsndar
Oil Company will give his testimony /
a deposition.
Congressman Joseph c. Sibley, {
Pennsylvania, probably will not b
f called before the committee to eXpla
the letters that he is alleged to hav
5 written to John d. Archbold, copies {
] which have been published. Mr.. Sible
is in sanitarium and he is in such poe
Dhvsical health that his testimony woul