Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-10-03
New Yorker Before Clapp
Committee Tells of Giving
$150,00O TO Help Election of
Roosevelt.
PATRIOTIC MOTIVES
ALONE PROMPTED GIFT
In 1908 When Taft Was Can
didate Mr.. Morgan Confined
His Assistance to Beggarly
Thirty Thousand Dollars.
my Lsassd Wire to Evening Herald

Washington, oct. al. Pierpont
Morgan proved a willing witness to.
day before the Clarp committee in.
Nestignting campaign expenditures
and testified he had given $Sl60,0uO
to the Republican campaign OF 1904
aud &3O.O0O To the Republican cam
paign Of 1905.
In an hours questioning MIR, Nor
gan denied empr IDEALLY the charge
by Charles Edward Russell of New
York that President RuuscVclt had
once tclrphuurd for campaign con.
trlhutiun. declared he never had any
communication with President Rooso-
Welt ANA asserted hc knew OF no con
fcr"nC"s among financial men In 1904
or 1905 Ia agree on supporting Re-
publican or Democratic presidential
candidates,
j. T.. Morgan was the first import
ant witness 10 testify today. His ap'
pcarHncr. close ON George X. Shell
dun's sensational testimony at yestcr-
day. when the Treasurer of the Re
publican national committee for the
present Republican campaign Hud the
last Hwurc that the late Cornelius ~
liilss had shown him records which
hoy, evidcnc. that MIR. Morgan's firm
was ohs OF four which hHd c0ntrlbut-
ed 100000 cnch Ia tho Republican
war chest Uf 1904. was expected to-
dcyrlup more testimony along that
line.
one other Witness was on TIE list
for today. IL" was judge Charles ~
Ducll, assistant treasurer of the Re
publican campaign FUND IN 1904. The
committee wanted tu ask Judge Duell
| II ho had seen records showing the
names at any large contributors to
lnhr R"pubIiran tund In that year.
Ills lirst appearance on the witness
stand Tor many years. MIR. Morgan
lnpprnr,d willing To- answer fully All
questions lie confirmed the tcsti-
mony yesterday of George Sheldon
that he hpd given 100000 TO the Re-
publican national fnd OF 1900, and
added that he Iat"r gHva $4,000 to
tho so-callcd Chairman" fJnd of
state committee,
Mr.. Morgan asserted no coniribu-
tiOn had ever been ryrn by his firm
or himself with IA, idea of securing
any fnvors thereby. lie was especial
! ~ Interested Ia the lnOi campaign, he
said, solely for the welfare of the
country ana the people at lnrge. Tint
wa8 tho only interest, he said, that
had guided him IN making cOntrlbu.
tions tn political PARTIES
The testimony ui Mr.. Morgan sup
ported that Of Mr sheldon yesterday
that tho sO-cnllrd Hartman fund"
OF 1904 had been raised az an cmcr-
Eency fund to hcp tho New York
state committees MIR. Morgan said hc
understood that t. be tho fact when
he gave $50,UOO lu the fund NoycIn-
her !, 1904, MI Hartman had said
II was raised at the .cqueat OF prcsI-
dent Roosevelt
MIR. Ducll, when called 10 the
stand, said he knew of no cnntribu-
tion by John -, ArchbOld under that
name. lie knew there had been "scv-
eral contributions of 500, 900 each"
and that the insurance companies
each had given $4,000.
| "DId you know any members Of the
standard OH hcsldcs Mr.. ATchbOld
who contributed to the 1904 cam
paignY"
81 think IT, II, Rogers contributed
but do not know the amount"
Mr.. Ducll said that Mr.. Bliss told
him In 1904 most OF tho hanks and
trust companies in New York ciiy
had contributed To the Republican
campaign, that In 1900 fewer OF them
had contributed.
Judge Duell said contributions In
1904 were collected by B. r.. Stote3-
bury in Philadelphia, Charles Dawes
In Chicago, George Won l.. Meyer, now
secretary OF the navy, In New Eng
land, and Andrew Mills In New YOrh,
Other contributors he remembered
were: Dr. David Jayne Hill, former
am baAshdor to Germany. $4,000:
Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador 10 Orsnt
Britain, $4,000: United states steel
Corporation, $4,000.
was there ever any refund 90 ROg-
ers or ArchbOld or the Standard on
cOmpRnyY" asked senator POmeTene
II never heard Of any refund. and
never heard Of any receipts"
TO the Hartman fund Judge Dusll
Thought Mr.. Hartman had given $50,
600, Senator Depew or II. NICK.
TwOmbIy $4,000. and Mr.. Morgan
tbO.OOO. lie dld not know the othes
cOhtributOTE.
Judge Duell aaid he had been man.
lager OF Col R9OSsyelke pEa-conxen-