Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-10-18
Dover Is
a Strong
Witness
Former Assistant Secretary
Of Republican National
Committee Has List of all
Contributions

SUutA
Washington, oct 1S.-Elmer Dover,
former assistant secretary of the Re
publican national committee, submit
ted to the committee today an alleged
duplicate list of the contributors to
the Republican campaign in 1904
Dover told the committee he found
the list Of the contributors in Chi
cago vault, and that 1t was duplicate
of the record kept by Treasurer Cor
nelius N, Bliss
This list produced by Dover showed
the following contributors:
George w, Perkins, $250,O00
j, Pierpont Morgan, $15OOOO.
II H. Rogers, $4,000
Chauncey NJ Depew, 100000.
f. II. Hartman, 100000,
G. j. Gould, 100000.
One contribution of 100000 was
listed under the initials Of H. H. r."
and a. d. A" These initials are sup
posedly those Of Henry H. Rogers and
John d. Archbold, and the subscrip-
tion probably the Standard Oil contrl-
button.
Dover testified that Bliss gave him
a list of the contributions in book
form, keeping the original copy. He
said he could not vouch for the accur-
acy of the list, as he had not compared
1t with with Bliss original copy, The
committee, however, decided to receive
1t, for what It is worth" Other con-
tributors shown in the list follow:
Charles s. Mellen, $4,000.
II. C. Frick, $4,000.
A. j. Wainwright, 100000
John f. Dryden, $4,000.
James Speyer, $25,OOO
Richard Mather, $4,000.
John Hazen Hyde, $4,000.
Richard HOwes, of the international
Harvester Company, $4,000.
II. w. Kendall $4,000
George l.. Meyers, $4,000.
Clarence II, Mackey, $4,000
Senator Mark A. Hanna, $4,000.
The Bethlehem Steel Company, $5,-
600.
The American Can Company, $4,000.
The list showed contributions total
ing $2,279, 900.
The testimony Of Judge Robert S.
Lovett, chairman of the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific railroads, re-
gardlng the dismissal Of the govern
ment suits to cancel land leases to
the Central Pacific and Southern Pa
cflc was refuted by a statement Of
Attorney Joseph H. Call, of San Fran
cisco, special government counsel in
the litigation, filed with the commit
tee
Lovett swore that the suits were
dismissed in 1895, but Call declared
the litigation occurred 10 years later,
after the raising by Il. H. Hartman OF
$24O,OOO for the 1904 campaign fund.
'If Judge Loyett made such a state
ment is was wholly unwarranted by
the facts" Call said. "The dismissals
were made by United States Attorney
Robert T. Devlin in San Francisco, in
1905. A new suit was brought with
the Hartman parties as defendants.
they being indispensable parties neces-
sary to dissolve the combination be-
tween these two parallel lines The
result Of omlttlng these railroads in
the merger case was a circuit order
which assumed that the holding com
pany was the lawful owner Of the par
allel line, and therefore decided
against the United States, holding that
no suppression OF cOnpeLlLlOn was
shown"
Call submitted a letter dated June
o. 1905, from Acting AttOrney-Gener-
al Day, directing the dismissal Of two
land lease suits because It was
doubtful whether the successful OUT,
come would subserye any very useful
purpose" Call suggested an inquiry
as to why the sothern Pacific and the
Central Pacific were not included in
the suit. This action was beyond the
Jurisdiction OF the committee, It was
stated
Some men smile in the face OF ad-
verslty, but they don't mean It.