The Washington times., 1912-10-22
CLAPP COMMITTEE
TO RECESS UNTIL
4. AFTER ELECTION
Sessions to Close After Call
ing a Few Witnesses
IN Tomorrow.
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and given an opportunity to appea,
again. Members OF the committee seem.
ed. to be doubtful whether he would
testify further.
The testimony of william Rockefeller
VIII be taken before the inquiry ends,
hut probably cannot be obtained be-
fore election. Members OF the COM
mittee are eager to get away from
Washington and into the campaign.
Senator oliver wants to go to Penn
sylvapia and Senator Clapp is over
wheImed with demands for speeches In
Minnesota, Iowa. and other States.
senator Dixon some days ago sub
mitted 'leng list Of names OF those
he wanted examined. He insisted tina,
they should be examined before election
IN order to show what were the activities
Of the opponents of Roosevelt. Tho
committee has examined only a part OF
these witnesses and there Is no indi-
cation 1t ever will examine all Of them.
However. the most important Of them
have been called. .-'..-
Talk of Adjournment.
Adjournment OF Its Investigation Of
campaign contributions until after cleo
tion faced the Clapp committee today.
The committee met at 10 o'clock with
the prospect Of having no witnesses to
examine. The date of adjournment OF
the hearings until after election was q
vexed question to decide today.
Today's proceedings hinged upon Sem
ator Penrose Of Pennsylvania. He was
asked II he desired to give further tes-
timony regarding the $4,000 he received
from John ID. Archbold. Of the Stand
ard OIL Company. In 1904. and also re-
garding the testimony of william Finn,
Of Pittsburgh, who denied Penrose' 8
charges that Finn had offered zone
or two million" for a seat In the United
States Senate. to succeed former Sena-
tor Quay. ..r
Appointment of one Senator to take
the testimony Of William q. Rockefel-
Ter, of the Standard Oil, was considered
today. The committees process-server
could not reach Rockefeller yesterday.
The oil man Is reported to be seriously
III and unable to come here for examl-
nation.
Inquiry Near End.
When the committee wound UP its
session yesterday afternoon It was gem
orally felt the backbone OF the inquiry
had been broken. Between them Thom-
as f. Ryan and George w. Perkins
testified to campaign expenditures in
the last eight years that would tear q
large hole in a million dollars and leave
only few small fringes about the
edges: Mr.. Ryan and Mr.. Perkins
that made the spectators gasp and
caused the committee to sit up and
After closing with Mr.. Perkins, with
whom Senator Pomerene had a long
wrangle. the committee examined w.
w. Durbin, who was secretary. of the
Progressive Democratic League in Ohio.
He testified that the league was organ
lied In the interest of the nomination OF
any good progressive Democrat. Never.
In and worked for Wilson.
Mr.. Durbin said that Mr.. McCombs
sent the league $500. Other sums were
raised that brought the total up to be-
$500
So. Stirs Penrose Fight.
Philadelphia witnesses gave testimony
that is calculated to fan hot the flames
OF controversy between Senator PEN
rose and william Finn and their re-
spective allies.
One Of the subjects OF controversy
between Penrose and Finn has been
the charge by Penrose that in 1904. after
the death Of Quay, Finn went to Phila-
delphia. conferred with him. and offered
to give Penrose and Israel w. Durham
100000. or even twice that sum, for
the senatorship.' Finn swore he made
no such offer. and even denied being In
conference with Penrose at the time
slleEed. ~
James A. Campbell, a Philadelphia
newspaper man, testified that Finn was
In Philadelphia June s and 8, 1904, and
that he personally saw him meet Dur
ham and enter the private Office of
Penrose. He had seen Peprose In ths
office but q few minutes before.
1t was brought out by the testimony
Of H. B. Nesbitt. Of this city, OF the
Pittsburgh Press. that all the Philadel-
phia papers at the time told OF the con-
ferences between Penrose and Finn.
Finn was even quoted as admitting he
had conferred with Penrose.
Mr.. Nesbitt also gave evidence which
showed that the famous agreement be-
tween Quay and Finn. In 1896, was
practically duplicate OF another
agreement they had entered into In 1890
Nugent and Robert Haight. or Philadel.
phia. which brought out that as early
as February Q. 1872. they were promised
$4,000 to tSke up organization work fol
Roosevelt In Philadelphia. Both told Of
seeing Colonel Roosevelt at the outlooi
office at his request about that time
They were sent to William 8. Ward
who promised them the money. Ware
told them that Penrose had been giver
ten days TO line up. Nusent said Pen
rose was not given square deal be-
lAuse, had he lined up for Roosevelt
"william Finn you'd never have beer
heard Of -
Later, Nugent and Haight were side
tracked because, they alleged, tn,
Roosevelt management was anxious Il
win over q. A. Van Valkenburg. OF tn,
Philadelphia North American and j
was necessary to give him prominenc,
In the leadership. The money promised
by Ward to Nugent and Haight did no
nnaterialize.
Questions were asked by Senators
Oliver. Paynter. and Pomerene, to brini
out the fact that the arrangements t,
finance the fight In Philadelphia wer,
made before the governors conference
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