New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-04
Pomerene Offers Resolu-
ton to Continue Hear
fngs on Party Expendi-
lures After Conventions
Senate to Act ON
Proposal To-day
Witness Tells of Confer.
ence at Which Woods
Campaign Was Planned

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The Senate
tomorrow will decide whether the in
vestigation into preconvention expendi-
lures of Pres sdential candidates by a
committee of the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections shall be
extended to include a general inquiry
into the conduct of the Republican and
Democratic national campaigns from
the close of the conventions to the No
vember election and the Senatorial
campaigns in the various states.
Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, a Demo
cratic member of the investigating
committee, offered resolution in the
Senate to-day to extend the inquiry so
that the committee should hold public
hearings on each step of the campaigns
as they progressed.- He asked that the
resolutlon be considered Immediately,
but there was objection, so the proposal
went over until tomorrow.
Considerable opposition to extending
the investigation was manifest in the
senate. Senator Pomerene said to-
hight he was doubtful whether his
u,
OF both parties have declared during
the last few days that the investiga-
ton should not have been carried as
lar as it has heen and that the Senate
should not act further unless formal
charges of irregularity or the criminal
expenditure OF money are filed.
Wood Treasurer to Testify
The Investigating committee planned
hp
but II: G. Stebbins, Eastern treasurer OF
the Wood organization notified the
committee that he would like to appear,
and he will be heard tomorrow
ne committee is closing the investi-
cation without lnquiring at all into the
charges made concerning the campaign
OF Senator Hiram w. Johnson. Wit
nesses have testified to reports that
100000 was thrown into the California
primary at the last minute to helm
Johnson carry that state, and that in
New Jersey Senator johnson had the
financial backing of Henry Ford and the
IRISH -Amerlcan societies under Justice
Cohalan. The committee had announced
that 1tswould call the johnson man
ayers to testify regarding the reports.
but it was stated by members tolnjeht mis- hi,
that MIR. Stebbins would be the last
Witness
Charles H. Duell, an attorney Of Yon-
kers, N. Y, and cousin of Elihu Root.
TOLD the Senate committee to-day that
Major General Leonard Wood, early in
MS campaign, sat in conference at
tended by New York and Philadel Ohia
bankers, at which the question of hav-
ing the Wood campaign underwritten
to the extent Of S1,000,O00 was dis
cussed.
Mr.. Duell was active in the Wood
campaign, he said, when John T. King
was the Wood manager. When Mr..
King left the Wood organization, after
General Wood had insisted on cam
paign in the open, the witness said, he
also retired
Conference in New York
Ambrose Mcneil, who is connected
with the International Nickel Company,
the Mdvale Steel Company and the
American Bank Note Company, was the
quiet collector for the Wood campaign
in New York during the King manage
ment, Mr.. Duell said.
"Mr. Monelps idea was to underwrite
the Wood campaign for from s500OO0
to 81 ,000,000, the underwriters to pay
or raise the amounts they pledged" i"
the witness said.
Enhances were first discussed gem
orally at meeting held in Mr. Monell's
house, 16 East Seventy second Street,
New York. toward the end of last No.
vember The conference was attended
by Robert X. Cassat., of Philadelph {;
Mr.. Mcneil, General Wood ano myself.
At this meeting MIR. Cassatt was asked
to underwrte or raise campaign fund
Of $500, 600"
"Was the meeting prearranged 2"
asked Senator Spencer, Republican, of
Missouri.
Original Promoter Withdrew
Eyes, MIR. Cassatt was asked to
undertake the task" was the reply.
Later a he dc defnitek nit declined d to to take
take part
Mr. Mcneil, he said. did agree to go
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