Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
BLISS REPORTS ON
REPUBLICAN FUND
Disbursements Up to October
20 Little Over Million and
Half Dollars.
22,226 HAVE CONTRIBUTED

New York, Oct. 28.-Republicar
campaign contributions up to Octo
Der %, inclusive, totalled 81, 667,7S7.29
according to the national committee:
report OF receipts and disbursements
made public here today by Cornelius
N. Bliss, jr., treasurer OF the commit.
tee. This amount came from 22,22t
contributors.
The report which, under the law,
must be filed in Washington not later
than ten days before election, shows
that the disbursements up to the
night OF October % were 81, 578,94. SO.
The four largest contributors were
Harry Payne Whitney, who gave $780,
600, and R. T. Crane, jr, of Chicago,
Arthur Curtis James and George F.
Baker, jr, who gave $4,000 each.
Mr.. Bliss, in giving out the report,
said that unique feature" of the
financing of the republican national
campaign had been the success OF
the effort to popularize the giving" OF
the funds.
Whereas four years ago" he said,
"the contributors to the republican
national committee numbered slightly
more than 1000, this year the total
number is 22,226. For some time past
$40 checks for sustaining membership
contributions have been coming In
at the New York headquarters at the
rate of at least 500 a day. On the
Esd OF October, the last date covered
by this report, we received at the New
York headquarters more than 1900
such checks" i.
Other Contributions.
Other large contributors we're:
Edward 8. Hardness, Clarence II. Mackay.
w. r, Allen, $4,000 each.
j s. Bache q Co, A. d. Juilliard, William
T. Clyde. Julius Rosenwald. $4,000 each.
william D. Thompson, George r. Baker.
wiiAam wrisley. IT,. T. Coleman Dupont.
Mrs u. NJ, Anderson, Thomas Cochran. J.
r. Morgan, A. T. Hert, Hornblower q
Weeks. Lewis L. Clarke F. B. Adams. Judge
william H. Moore, Percy r. Pyne, r. NJ.
Goldsmith, Louis r, Rothschild. J. B. Duke,
Corneijxs Vanderbilt, John N WHY'S, spen-
Ger Penrose. Warren De Lano,, Mrs. Mary
Lily Fiaglsr, Henry veeder, Galen s. Stone.
A. Moreii. W. A. Croker J, H. seligman d
Co., Mortimer L. schin. $4,000 each.
j.. Ogden Armour. John D. Rockefeller
Jr., 5000 each.
c. N. Bliss. jr.. Robert Bacon. Robert W.
Goelet, Vincent Astor. s. II. p. Dawson, W.
L. Harknsss. Mrs. Stanley Mccormick. Mrs.
Henry r. Res, Theodore N. Vail. Felix M,
warburg. willard Straight. 5000 each.
H. Fulton Cutting, t2,6o0.
Charles P. Taft, $4,000.
George, W. wickersharn. 1900.
Ogden Mills 1880
j. Horace Harding. James A. Patton.
Charles Steele, Francis L. Hine, william
Nelson Cromwell. 5000 each.
+ A. Barton Hepburn. G. Lsdyard Blair,
Mrs. Marshall Field. ST.. John \. Drsxel
$1,000 each
New Jersey republican state committee,
$4,000
Two Congressional Funds.
Washington, Oct. 28--Contribu-
tons Of $4,000 to the republican
congressional campaign committee
were disclosed in a statement today
by former Senator Scott Of West Vir-
GINA. its chairman. There were 2,073
contributors.
The democratic congressional cam
paign committee also filed Its state
ment today, showing receipts Of $25,-
646 and expenditures and obligations
Of Sal, $685. OF the receipts the demo-
cratic committee contributed $4,000.