Arizona republican., 1920-09-10
CAMP PA|CN SLUSH FUND COMM TEE READY TO CLOSE
 INVESTIGATIONS
Chicago Inquiry Closes Sat urday and Committee Hearings May Not Con- tinue After That Date
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CHICAGO, Sept 9.-The senate com mittee Investigating campaign expen- ditures tonight was divided on the question of pursuing the investigation of Governor Cox's charges that mil lions are being sought by the Repub- fican national committee to corrupt the electorate.
 Saturday the committee will com plete its inquiry here, but after two conferences today the five senators could reach no decision as to the next step to be taken. Testimony bearing on Governor Cox's charge that a quota list of 51 cities had been sent out by the Republican national committee, was elicited at today's session of the senate committee Investigating cam paign funds.
 While Harry NJ. Blair, assistant to Fred w. Upham, national Republican treasurer, was on the stand, a docu- ment was introduced which the wit ness introduced as a substitute for Form 1o1,' the campaign plan which Blair drew up but which was rejected by the national executive committee. This substitute document stated that an intensive campaign was to be un- dertaken in 54 cities and 1t also indi cated that the national treasurer was to appoint city chairnen of the ways and means committed.
 John A. Kelly and c. De Forrest Kinney, state ways and means heads for Ohio and Illinois respectively, later said they appointed the local chair men themselves and that the natfonat treasurer had nothing to do with these selections or with fixing quotas for the various counties. Mir. Kinney also added that he was concerned only with the campaign outside Chicago and Cook county.
 Bisir's Assistant Denies Charge
 Tn addition, Henry Owen a paid as- sistant to Blair and organizer for Ohio Kentucky. Tennessee. West Virginia and Indiana, testified that he had never heard of any plan to organize cities as distinctive from the county organizations. He said furthermore that he never saw Form 101" and knew nothing of it being locked in a safe at Republican headquarters after it had been rejected.
 Mir. Owen told Senator Spencer that the whole Republican method of rais- ing funds was "stock plan.'
 T can buy it for you in printed form for 25 cents" he added.
 .sWhere?" asked Senator Reed.
 From the international committee of the '. M. c. A." said the witness. tsThe plan is known to hundreds of men. It is 25 years old and anything but original with this drive
 The committee held another night session, Chairman Kenyon explaining that they hoped to wind up the hear ings here by Saturday night.
 City Quotas Overiisted
 Other developments here today ir- cluded testimony by MT. Kelly that he fixed quotas of Ohio counties at just double what he expected to raise, but did not inform local chairrnen of that fact On that basis the workers in that state. it was brought out oy Sen ator Pomerene, were striving to get s1 300, 900 instead of the $650,000 which the national committee wanted.
 we shot at the moon hoping to hit the tree tops" explained Mir. Kelly.
 Mrs. Bertha Bauer of Chicago, ways and means vice chairman for Illinois. told of the difficulty of raising money among women voters.
 We thought that since women had assumed the privileges of the ballot they ought to assume some Of it's re- ures showed that she had collected s5.367.57 from only five counties in Illinois and that au except $526 had come from Cook county.
 There was one subscription of S2,00o and thirteen of s1.000 in Mrs. Rauer's list. The s2.00o was received last May from Mrs. John H. Gary, the witness said. and she explained that it was di- vided between two fiscal years "in ac- cordance with what then understood was a general plan"
 Did you have any sinister purpose in. raising. these .fundS?" Queried Sen ator Kenyon, asking a stock question
 "No, sir. it was for the best purpose in the world" replied Mrs. Bauer and she then smilingly assured Senator
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