The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
Accounts for S265,000 Col lected and Spent-The Taft Family Gave
 S150,000
M'KINLEY KEPT
 BUT FEW RECORDS
 OF DISBURSEMENTS
McHarg Accounts for Expenditure v S25, ,OO0 in the Southern Statez by Roosevelt Men-Says H
 Has Enough of Roose-
 welt Politics

Washington, October Ss-Ihe s265, GOO collected and spent campaign for President Tafts nation through his Washington quartefs was partly accounted foy day by Representative William B. kinley of Illinois. the Presidents ca paign manager. in testimony before tnv Senate Investigating committee.
 Mir Mckinley said the Taft fam- iiy," comprising Charles r Taft, Henry w Taft and Horace Taft. brothers of the President. gave s1so,O0o./ The catn- paign, he declared, had cost five times what was anticipated.
 When we started out we expected to spend about s5o,Q0o,n he told the committee
 Chief Taft Contributors
 The other chief contributors to the Taft fund. with the respective amounts as given Ny Mir Mckinley were:
 John Hays Hammond, s25.0eo Ap- drew Carnegie. s2aooo, E. T. stoes bury, Philadelphia, s25oO0; MT kel- sey" and MT Patton" of New York. described as Friends of the President,' s1g.0oo. Richard Kerens, st. Louis. ann bassador to Austria Hungary, $50oo' Senator W. Murray crane s50o0 secre- tary Knox, $500, Attorney General Nickersham sf000; former senator Ma than B. Scott. 5000; A. C. James, Slooo.
 Mr. MeKinley's records were read from small pencled memorandums. which he dug out of trouser pocket He told the committee they were all he had to show for the handling of the blg fund, except books kept il the headquarters that covered Sls4pvp snent directly for ordinary campaign purposes Mir Mckinley declared his memory was not good enough to recall all the purposes for which money went out.
 ,I always thought l had good memory until l got into that miN-up, bn explained but 1 saw new man every five minutes in that whirL
 MT. Mckinley said he did not know the total amount that had been spent for President Taft in the entire cam naign.
 The amounts given by the respects i've members of the Taft family were not furnished by Mir Mckinley, nor did the committee ask for further par ticulars.
 Taft Testifies Today
 Charles F. Taft of Cincinnati will appear before the committee tomorrow to testify as to his contributions to the Presidents primary and Chafles II Htlles, new national chairinan anu a', formerly the Presidents secretary, will appear Thursday. The committee to- morrow wil also hear Dan l. Hanna Of C,leVefand who gave about SoV,ouo to the Roosevelt fund this year.
 MT Mckinley, though sharply ques- tioned by members of the committee to- day conld give no information as to the funds raised in the different states. Tie declared he did not even know the names of men in charge of affairs m many states The balance of the piS fund for which he had no records had 'dripped out in the different state cam paigns, he said. The contributions To the state campaigns by the lal. natioila' headquarters were given as follows:
 West Virginia sSOO0, Maryland slO'oW to xte0fD. Ohio S200O0 Illinois slo.00O Maine S30oO. Texas 5000, Indiana si0,000, Iowa 5000, Kansas $5oo0, Kentucky 5000.
 MT Mckinley and Ormsby McHars the latter contest manager Tor colonel Hoose- velt in the primary fight, held the witness stand throughout the afternoon. Mr Me- fIare accounted for the expenditure of S9b GOO or g30.0O0 by the Roosevelt commit ice in the southern states. where con- tests were brought He denied that any money had been spent to influence dele gates or that he knew of the use of any monev in this way either before or at th. Chicago convention.
 Paid Delegates Expenses
 MT Mckinley admitted freely that the Taft campaign committee had paid the expenses of delegates to the Chicago con vention, a procedure that both he and Mir McHarg said had been "a long stand ing custom" Asked as to how many delegates had thus been provided for. he