Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-19
DECL LARES TAFT'S LEAGUE VIOLATED
 U, s. LOGAN ACT
Senate Investigating Commit. tee Probes Into Activity
 League to Enforce Peace
PRIVATE LETTERS
 PUT IN EVIDENCE
National Committees Both Parties Ordered to Make Public
 Amounts Expended in
 Campaign, October 2S

St. Louis Mo-, Oct. 1S.- Scores of confidential letters from the files of the league to enforce peace, of which William Howard Taft is presi- dent, were introduced into the record of the senate committee Investigating campaign expenditures late today Names of number of prominent New York bankers were mentioned in the correspondents.
 Don M. Hunt, attorney for the com mittee who investigated the activities of the league, reported that Gin my estimation,' officials of the league have violated the Logan act passed January 30, 1799, which prohibits American citizens carrying on nego- tiations with foreign governments ol their agent regarding dispute or con troversies without permission of the United States. The act carries { penalty upon conviction of fines oi ! not more than $5,000 and imprison. ment of from six months to three years.
 The senate committee sent Hunt tC New York several days ago to inves tigate the activities of the league tc enforce peace. Hunt conducted al inquiry for five days in the league'' offices there, read all the cores pondence in it's files and examined employees and officers of the organ ization.
 His report, voluminous docu ment embracing copies of all letter. which he thought had a bearing or the campaign expenditures investiga tion was presented today.
 AdjOurns Again
 The senate committee met here to day to complete it's investigation O the pre-convention campaign in Mis- souri and adjourned to meet agail some time after the election. Be I fore adjourning telegrams were dis 1 patched to the chairmen of the Re publican and Democratic notiona senatorial and congressional com mittees directing them to file com plete statements of their receipts anC pledges Chicago on Thursday, Oct 28. This report will be mad epubli, at that time.
 The report of MT. Hunts investi proved the sensation of the day. Dog ems of confidential letters between MT. Taft, George Wickersham, Theo dcre Marburg and others were given
 In his summary Mir. Hunt points ou that Herbert s. Hoover testified be fore the committee that he had talk ed with Bourgeoise the German chan cellor; Lord Robert Cecil and Davit Lloyd George in regard to the United States entering the league of nations and that Edward A. Filene, of Bosto1 who has been abroad on simila, mission, is now "In Germany on !, mission to get Germany into thu league"
 "The correspondence and dat, which follows bears out the charge which I am about to make," MT Hunts report says, "that this organ ization has through it's officials b! correspondence talked with various officials of foreign government abou getting this and other countries int the league of nations peace treaty, al of which, in my estimation, is in vio | lerce of the Logan act" MT. Hun also charged that William H. Short secretary of the league, took iron 1 the files certain letters between MI Short and George w. Wickersham il which Mir. Short proposed campaign in the interest of Governor Cox am MT. Wickersham "agreed in part, ~ MT Short refused to give the letters up the report states, on the, ground tha they were personal.
 A litter from MT. Wickersham t MT. Short, dated July 30, 1920 says
 Coolidge Acceptance Best
 "Thank you, My dear MT. Short for Arthur Sweetser's memorandum It is very logical and sound. Ho, much better was Governor Coolidge speech of acceptance than that o Senator Harding's.'
 Other correspondence shows tha ex-President Taft threatened to re sign from the presidency of tn league if it took partisan part il politics and reiterated his belief tha Senaor Harding will be elected an that "the one hope of securing tn league with the Lodge reservations i through the Republican candidate"
 The Hunt report shows that tn League to enforce peace spent $250 to finance letter sent by Samue Gompers to 50,000 local unions ask ing the Union members to gring pres sure to bear on senators to hay them vote for the league of nation! I Other items of expenditure includ bills for publication of advertise ments in A cities throughout tn country, and two bills, one of SPA 583.25 and the other of $10.534.2 from the Western Newspaper Uniol T A letter from Theodora%Marburg 0 Boston to Secretary Short, date :. August IF, 1920, says. that the ainos direct road to ratification (of tn ] Continued on page Six