Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-30

.r-~-- were followed by confidential con- parisons with the Newberry cam- paign.
 Generally, it was said, these lesser political leaders fell into the traps telling what they had received and explaining who fought to handle tho money" in given wards of towns. The next grade of political leaders was then approached and by this method it was stated, a clear trail was blaz- ed to the "higer ups" When brought into the grand jury room and con- frcnted with accurate accounts of their conversations with the agents, the men generally, it was said, re- peated their stories.
 The government legal experts, headed by Mir. Dailley, Mir. Dalesou ter of Grand Rapids. former dis trict attorney and Oliver Pagan, in- dictment expert for the department of justice, took both state and feder- al laws as the basis for the indict- ments. The federal corrupt prac- tices act of 1910 limits the expendi- lures of senatorial candidates .o $1O,OO0 and requires that four state ments be filed with the secretary of the senate. one preceding and follow ing first the primary and then the election. The Newberry affidavit cited in the second indictment was filed in correspondence with the act.
 Use Newberry's Statement.
 The second federal corrupt prac- tices act which the indictments all legged was violated, was passed Tn October 1918. 1t made bribery of voters a crime after several federal courts held that such an act was .,ot an offense against the laws of the United States. This law came into being after the Michigan primary, but just ahead of the election.
 The state laws were brought in by the act of 1910 which provides that If state limits campaign expendi- lures to less than the $10,OOO named in that act then the state law snail apply to campaigns within the con- monwealth. The Michigan statutes limit campaign expenditures to a fourth of the yearly saalry of the position sought for each primary or election campaign. An aspirant for United States senator in this state may therefore, it was argued, spend only $1,875 on the primary and an equal amount on the election cam paign.
 The law forbidding use of the mails to defraud was first used in election cases by Mr. Daley in the Terra Haute indictments. It was applied to the Newberry case as probably covering various letters sent to cam paign contributors which letters, it was charged, were worded so as to deceive the recipients as to the amounts already collected by the Newberrv treasury.
 Excess Expenditures.
 To meet probable defense that Senator Newberry was ignorant, of the amount of money and it's sources used in his campaign the govern ment intends to use statement is- sued by the senator's managers shortly after the first rumors of corruption began to be heard This statement showed receipts of S17S, 8b6 and expenditures of $176,56S. Of the contributions John s. Newberry. the senator's brother. was credited with S99.900: A Victor Barnes of New York, president of the American Hook company. and brother of Mrs. Truman Newberry. with $25.OOO; Henry B. Joy of Detroit, another lbrother-in-law of the senator with. k25.OOO, and Mrs. Henry B. Joy, the benator's sister, with $1O,O0O.
 The government will attempt to khow that all these persons conferred Nith Truman H. Newberrv while he vas candidate. thus indicating his knowledge of the campaign. It also las 9 number of letters which he $rote to politicians while the cam 1aign was on. Frederick Cody, for Aerly Detroit school teacher. but