The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-10-02
DECLARES SENATOR PREVARl-
GATED If HE SAID 100000
WAS OFFERED FOR TOGA.
TO PROBE HARTMAN GIFT
VIII summon Judge LoVett to Tell of
Reported $260,o0o Fund-RcoseveIt
Aids Tell Where Bull Moose
Got Money for Campaign.

Washington, Oct. 2.-'If Senator
Penrose said | offered him $1,000 000
or $2000,000 to be elected United
States senator, he lied" was the state
ment of Bill Finn of Pittsburg be-
fore the Clapp committee.
Finn made the statement after he
had given the committee detailed
statements of the expenditures for
Col. Roosevelt in Pennsylvania in the
pre-convention campaign.
Earlier in the day c. C. Tegethoff,
private secretary to E. II. Hartman,
who testified to the intimate relation
ship of Col. Roosevelt and Mr.. Har-
riman, was recalled. He failed to give
the committee much additional infor-
nation.
Elon H. Hooker, treasurer of the
National Progressive party, also was
on the witness stand to tell of contri-
butaions made to the Bull Moose fund.
He gave a list of names of contrib
utors.
Tells of Taft Expenditures.
THE money spent, while charged
to the election of Roosevelt delegates,
covered a much larger range of inter
ests. The Taft people spent 100000
in Allegheny county alone
Il think large expenditures should
be stopped" Finn said, but Senator
oliver knows as much about the stu
alton there as l do"
Hooker produced records of the New
York county committee, showing re-
ceipts and expenditures of the cam.
paign. The total preconvertion re-
ceipts were $59,126.35 and the expendi-
lures s52,606.52. The balance was
transferred to the national committee.
Finn listened attentively to Hook
er's testimony. He rubbed his chin
reflectively when Hooker told of the
Bull Moose Golfers. Hooker said Amos
Pinohot collected $1,000 additional as
president of the League of Progressive
Clubs.
Some of the Contributors.
Alex. Cochran, carpet manufac-
$4,000 to the National Progressive
committee and $4,000 to the New
York committee. r. p. Perkins, a
friend of the Roosevelt family, gave
81 ,000 A. Foster Higgins and George
Baxter, New Workers, gave $1,000 and
$4,000 respectively.
Hooker's records showed that the
total expenditures for the national
preconvention campaign were S143,999.
The expenditures included $4,000 for
salaries; printing and advertising,
$4,000; telegraph and telephone,
81 goo; railroad fare for speakers, in
Guiding Roosevelt and Beveridge, $17,-
600; shipping and postage, $4,000, and
at the national headquarters, $4577.
The following money was spent in
the various states: Maryland, $4,000;
Maine, $500; Massachusetts, $4,000;
Vermont, $4,000; Illinois, S13,500;
Oklahoma, $4,000, and $500 was sent
to Senator Dixon for the Washington
headquarters. Recounts of votes in
Vermont and Massachusetts cost, re-
spectively s94 and $475.
That the committee is not through
probing the noOSSNtlt-I1diIi iiIttii COli-
troversy was indicated by issuance of
orders for the appearance here of
Judge Lovett, chairman of the South
ern Pacific Railroads board of direc-
tors. Tegethoff said Hartman gave
Lovett many checks received from
Wall street brokers for the s250,000
fund Hartman is said to have raised
at Roosevelt's request.