The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-11
CRANE AID s26.684
FOR la TOILETTE
Chlcagoan, TeStifying Before
Senators, Disputes Gift.
WILSON BENEFITED BY $4,000
John !. Hannah TestiTiss Regarding
La Toilette Expenoes-John D.
Erchbold viii Be Recalled
TO Stand.

Washington, Oct 9.-Charles r.
Crane told the senate investigating
committee that he gave SIS. 4.40 to
Senator La Follatte's campaign and
10000 to Governor Woodrow Wilson's
fund before the Baltimore convention.
Treasurer +. H. Hooker OF the Pro
gressiye party, who appeared as wit
ness last week, volunteered the testi-
mony that Mr.. Crane gave $4,000
each 10 the la Toilette and Wilson
funds at the same time.
Are these all the contributions you
made either to Senator La Toilette or
Governor Wilson," asked Senator
Clapp Of Mr. Crane.
Yes, sir. all"
The witness aid he gave the $780,
600 for Governor Wilson to William f.
McCombs, his manager. in two install
ments, March % and April 80. 1912.
An account OF the receipts and ex-
penses OF Senator La Follette's cam
paign was filed with the committee.
showing collections of $61, 969.56 and
expenditures of s63.961.56.
John J. Hannah, secretary TO Sena-
tor La Toilette, said the only amount
he knew of Mr.. Crane giving over
and above that entered in the account
presented was s3,1S440, included in the
statement of the Chicago bureau and
given to make up a deficit.
Senator Pomerene called attention
to the statement by Hooker that MIR.
Crane had. up to certain date. given
$4,000 to the La Toilette campaign.
There was no such arrangement
There was no such amount con-
tributed," said Mr. Hannah.
When Charles Edward Russell, So
cialist candidate for governor of New
York, took the stand. Chairman Clapp
read to him q report of one of his
speeches in a New York paper. de-
scribing an alleged telephone CONVEX
sation between ]. p Morgan and the
White House during the 1904 cam
paign in which Mr. Morgan was asked
for "a 100000 contribution to the Re-
publican campaign fund. The pub
lished reports said Wayne MacVeagh,
former attorney general. was witness
to the conversation.
Mr.. Russell said the story came to
him in 1910 from a magazine writer
who told him he had the story from
Mr.. MacVeagh.
Senator Clapp announced after the
political funds hearing adjourned thar
the committee had arranged for John
ID. Archbold of the Standard Oil COM
a..
day for further examination.
Washington, Oct. Cool. Theodore
Roosevelt appeared before the Clapp
committee OF the senate Investigating
campaign funds. In part he said: Il
asked no man to. contribute to the
campaign fund when | was elected
president Of the United States, and I
wish to reiterate tSat Mr.. Bliss and
Mr.. Cortelyou both assured me that
no promise had been made as return
for any contribution. Neither they nor
anyone else having authority asked
me to act or refrain from acting In
any matter while | was president be-
cause any contribution had been made
or withheld
Gentlemen, could put II more
sweepingly?"
In these words Theodore Roosevelt
summarized his testimony at the hear
ing before the Clapp committee of the
senate investigating campaign funds
The coloner specifically denied that
he ever asked for contributions to his
1904 campaign fund or that he had
known of any contribution by J. F.
Morgan. To these statements he add
Ell that he had ordered the return to
the Standard Oil company of any con-
tribution it might have made In 1904;
that he had been assured by George 4.
Cortelyou only yesterday" that he
knew of no such contribution and that
he did not believe Cornelius \. Bliss
ever demanded a contribution from
John d. Archboid or from any corpora
ton by any methods of extcrtion.