The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-30
'CLAPP COMMITTEE AGAIN
| TAKE UP CAMPA|GNF FUND
Hartman Secretary May Be
Asked to Furnish Correspond
cnce on $3.50. 900 Gift.
MORGAN MAY TAKE STAND
PenrOsc Counsel to Question
ROOsevclt-Parkcr. Cortciyou
and Bliss. Jr., TO BE Called.

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four weeks or more the eyes of a largo
part of the country will be focCssad Oh
! q little room in the Senate office building
here. Senator Moses L. Capp of Mime
sofa and his committee will share with
, the Presidential candidates tho lime
| light of the campaign. The inquiry into
campaign contributions will, in fact.
develop into one of the most interesting
features of this unusual campaign Tn,
Clapp committee from now until election
day will be the medium through which
all three parties will seek TO dump before
| the country charges and disclosures
designed to influence the result Out
of it all, though. the Investigators hope
at least that they will be able to settle
| these much discussed questions:
! Did Tn, sdore Roose welt when President
ask r. II. Hartman, IA MIR Hartman
charged he did, to raise $3.50, 900 to carry
New York state?
Did Mr.. Roosevelt accept $10o, 900 from
the Standard Oil Company in his 100,
campaign and then through his national
treasurer ask for $3.50. 900 more. and when
this was refused write letters "for tn"
record" to his chairman, Cprtelyou.telling
/ him that he must not accept Standard Oil
money?
| While these are the most interesting
questions to be investigated the inquiry
also will disclose the size and sources Of
Col. Roosevelt's preconvention campaign
fund and all the scents in regard to the
financing of the other Presidential booms
at Chicago and Baltimore. There is in
fact hardly any limit to the disclosures
that may come from the investigation.
| The resolution passed by the Senate
authorizes an investigation into all fnan-
cial transactions that may have taken
place between any members of Congress
and John d. Archbold Of the Standard
Oil Company and between members of
Congress and George w. Perkins
Some of the witnesses in the invcsti-
CATION already have arrived in Washing
ton. c. c. Tegehoff, former secretary 10
the late f. II. Hartman, came in to-
night He probably will he the first vii
ness called tomorrow. George B. Cor
itelyou. former Secretary of the Treasury,
also is in Washington and will give his
testimony before the close of the week.
Mr.. Tegethoff will testify To- the part
played by Mr.. Hartman in raising II
campaign fund for the Republicans FOR
Use in New York in the Presidential cam
paign of 1904. But most important, Mr..
Tegethoff comes as the result of n sub
ppna which requires him 10 furnish
correspondence from the files Of Mr..
Hartman = office that il is thought will
shed some light on the political transac-
ton.
, Other witnesses to be called tomorrow
are Ormsby Mcharg. "a political scout
employed by George W. Perkins in the
preconvention campaign for Col. Roosc-
welt. who operated principally in the
, South and Cornelius n. Bliss, Jr,. who
, has been asked to furnish CORRESPONDENCE
from the l'tt," files of the late {, \ Bl's'.
Sr., for many years treasurer of IN"
, Republican National Committee. But tie
: the real thrills are reserved for later
in the week when j p. Morgan and Col.
, Roosevelt will appear. Mir, Morgan is
expected to take the stand Thursday
, and Col. Roosevelt will GO on Friday.
, Senator 'Penrose is expected here to-
. morrow to be constantly on hand during
the hearings He will be accompanied
by counsel who. it is said, will quiz Mr..
, Roosevelt
, The committee has made il known that
legal counsel will not be encouraged ~
take part in the invest CATION, Tho belief
of Senator Clapp and his collea gues IN
the committee il that If each witness ls
allowed TO bring in "A lawyer there will
I be no end To the investigation, and vet
I under the wording of the resolution aii-
= thority is given for perso rs summoned
. to appear personally or by counsel. IN
. effort was made by Senator La Toilette and
:, those Interested in impaling Col. Roose~
!, , welt on the horns Of the investigation: 10
u get Louis ID. Brandeis who figured aI
counsel in the Ballinger Pinchot investl-
= CATION, as cross examiner for the commit
( tee. The committee considered the mat
ter and decided against il. When some OF
Col. Roosevelts friends grew nervous
over the prospect and urged him 10 avail
= himself of the services of lawyer he
i refused
e His close friends in Washington expect
2 the Colonel to give a. good account o'
$ himself before the committee, Senator
: Pomerene will be the chief inqulsltor,
n He has been in conference with leading
, Democrats in the Senate and House over
the questions 10 be put to the ProgresslNr
: nominee senator lie Toilette has offered
some suggestions to the committee aion'
the same line. Senator La Toilette has
repeated charged that fund cf more
than a million dollars WAS raised to nom,
nate and elect Roosevelt this year ana
has named Perkins. Hanna. Munsey ana
the Harvester and steel trusts as con
tributors to the fund. For a time there
was talk among members of the committee
of calling Senator La Toilette as witness
I TO disclose just how much information Il"
: has on the subject. But he was aVcrse TO
!
, the committee that the Senator did not
, make his allegations from direct kno"l-
edge but from hcarsay.
Ormsby McHarg has been factor IN
two campaigns. He will be required 10
tell not only Of the preconyentiop work
: for Roosevelt this year hut to state whal
? he did in furthering President lait
. campaign in 1908. He was active that
year with Frank X. Hitchcock in booming
Taft.
The members of the committee eXpoct
to develop some interesting testimony
from Alton b. Parker of New York. tie
has intimated to some Of the Democrats
in Congress that he has important ini"r-
nation regarding the contributors :"
New York corporations to iTespueh'
Roosevet's campaign of 1904. ms IN,
= formation when furnished IL eAr"C. "
to back up Judge ParKer's charge inad'
publicly in the campaign o' 1904 Nn'x
called ont denunciation nom frcsluIs
: Roosevelt
I The story is whispered about Nashli'G
. ton that Judge Parker would have mau'
7 reply To President Roosevelt at the tllhe
Q but was prevented from doing so by ln'
obligation of confidence imposed on MN
:, by the late Dan el =. Lamont ana olhe'
g prominent tinanciers in New hork, VINO
furnished the information on which JudE"
/. Parker made his charges On ms "niW
,, before the committee Judge Parker WIZ
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