The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-31
CAMP PAIGN FUND ID TOTAL $5,OOO,OOO
 HAYS DECLARATION
The S15,000,000 Slush Fund as False as It Is LibelOus, Says Chairman G. o. F.
 Committee
By Associated Pres.

of S5,000.O00, according to testf- mony given here today before the senate committee investigating campaign funds. The statement was made by VIII Hays, chairman of the national republican comniit- tee, but he explained that si.IO0.- GOO of the total had been expended by the organization which went out of office with the end of the republican national convention. Mir. Hays emphasized that the pres- ent national republican committee had a budget of approximately S3,000.000 1 and that S1,000,000 of the total expected | to pass through the committees treas- ury would be allocated back to the ] states for strictly state purposes. The testimony was in the nature of a reply to charges made by Governor Cox. kdemocratic presidential nominee, ! that the republican fund would total 5000, ,0o0 MT. Hays denied this charge and also denied positively that any Dig money interests" had underwrit- ten the republican expenses. This Sl5,O00. 0oO corruption fund l that Governor Cox speaks of--do you l know how it was to be used to cor rupt the public?' Senator Kenyon | asked
 | "rhat statement Is as false as 1t IS llbelous," MT. Hays declared | Taking up the specific charges Tn Governor Cox's Pittshurg speech, Sena- tor Kenyon questioned Mir. Hays about the much discussed quota sheet, ! from which the democratic nominee | read figures to show the republicans sought to raise sS,145,000 in fifty-one principal cities.
 NEVER HEARD OF IT 1 MT Hays denied ever having seen or heard of the quota sheet. denied ever l haNy yiY,xr Is,nt at tffr hGr was distributed, or discussed and de- clared inquiry by him had failed to | show any republican party leader who 1 had heard of it.
 Mir. Hays told Senator Kenyon that he had never heard of the quota list of cities which Governor Cox set out in his Pittsburg speech.
 somebody gave the governor shoddy list" he said
 "The statements in regard to the whole quota matter are false.' MT. Hays then grouped under five headings charges he said Governor Cox had made and as he concluded reading each of them. he added:
 That statement also is false"
 F. Senator Spencer questioned Mir. Hays to develop that the addition Of women to the voting lists. and increased trans portaton and-other costs would neces- sitate for 1920 q campaign fund double that of the $2,500, 900 used in 1916. Mir. Hays said that the committee had tried to take these factors into con- sderation in making up it's $3.00o,0 1 budget.
 HIS EXPLANATION Senator Pomerene read Governor Cox's quotation from the official bull letn of the republican national treas ury, had MT. Hays verify them from a file of the publication. and chen asked him how he explained the use of the word quota" as applied to va- rious cities. MT Hays replied that the the amount to be expected from given state had undoubtedly been discussed by some one, somewhere, but that he ! supposed the goals set for various ci- ties. if such goals wereIset were laid out by the state organizations. 1 An intellectual attempt to show that l the republican national committee had placed orders for a large amount of propaganda in foreign language news- papers, was made .y Senator Reed, when he took up the Ncross examina- tion pf MT. Hays. The witness denied that any such contracts had been madel
 Senator Reed questioned Mir Hays about the lnter-racial Council, the Ameri- can Defense Society, the National Re- publican Ga Washington newspaper) and the Republican Publicity Association. or . which former Senator Jonathan Bourne is head.
 MT. Hays said the republican national committee had been financing the pub 1 licity association for the past few months.
 MT. Hays said he knew nothing about the Inter-racal Council, but had heard of an advertising agency which placed advertising in foreign language news papers.
 DOESN'T KNOW
 Hasn't that agency been bought up by Coleman Dupont and Francis Kel- lar Reed asked. with the purpose or controlling the advertising in the fog ' eign language papersY"
 Not to my knowledge"
 In connection with a denial by MT. Hays that republican expenses had been underwritten by "big money lnterests.r Senator Reed introduced photographic documents signs by eastern capitalists and heads of several large corporations and pledging moral and financial sup port" to a publication by William Barpes of the Albany (N. yJ Journal Among the signers as read by Senator Reed were John D. Rockefeller aad John D. Rockefeller, Jr,. the American Tobacco Company, by Percival s, Hill. president. the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, by Charles H. sabin, presi- dent, the Berwyn- White Coal Company, the Hudson Coal Company, the General Electric Company, the Famous Players Lasky Corporation, Julius Fleischmann. and the William Wrigley, Jr., Company.
 The publication has no connection with the national republican committees. | either directly or indirectly" said MT. | Hays. We have no way of stopping ] MT Barnes. or any other newspaper pub fisher, from putting out a campaign book. and do not intend to use this one at all
 publication and it's list of packers con stiuted subterfuge. Mir. Hays said;
 "I know nothing of subterfuges in politics.
 Homer s. Cummings. former chairman of the democratic national committees. followed MT. Hays on the stand
 CUMMINGS TAKES STAND MT. Cummings said that as compared to the 80. 900 persons who have so far contributed to the 1920 republican cam paign under Mir. Hays plans of de centralized subscription. 200,000 per sons inI9l6 gave an average of about ss each to the democratic chest. After brief testimony by Representa- tive H. D. Flood and Joseph L. Rhinock ,of the national democratic congress sional committee. the investigation was adjourned until tomorrow.
 since the 1920 convention there has been raised by the national commit zee for its own use ss1s.01354 up to August es." Hays said During this