Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-25

or S5,0OO from the Dayton (Ohio) Metal | Products company today sent the senate camaisn Investigating committee off on wholly new tack.
 On demand of democratic members of | the committee. immediate inquiry was ors | dered. although the Ohio state campaign, , II was agreed, was outside the commit | tees jurisdiction. Officials of the Metal Products company and of the City Ma tional bank of Dayton were called to ap- pear tomorrow with any papers relating to the transaction involved.
 No direct charge was made. Citing as his authority an examiner for house aircraft investigation committee, how ever, George $. Lockwood, editor of the National Republican, volunteered the | statement as a lead" which the commit
 tee might follow that certain check drawn by the Metal Products company
 June 29, 1918, was to pay a personal
 note of James Nj Cox"
 The effort was to make 1t appear that
 this was an obligation that Mir. Cox had
 entered into with the City National bank
 of Dayton some time before" Lockwood
 said, but it appears to me, from all the
 circumstances. that it must have been a
 contribution from this corporation to MT. Cox's campaign fund"
 Lockwood named F. NJ. Talbot presi- dent of the Metal Products company, and
 of the bank, as the witness who should
 be called. and message to Talbot was sent immediately
 Tt does not come within the purview
 of this committees business" Senator Reed said, but mgong to insist that
 this matter De immediately investigated
 and that We get out of the realm of de- duction into that of fact"
 Aside from the incident involving the Metal Products company check the com 7 mittee ranged over a wide field of in- quiry during the day. It heard volun- ! teered statements from assistants to At 3 tcrney General Palmer. who were in San 2 Francisco during the democratic conven- tion, that they had travelled on official
 business which they said justied thfe ex- A pense accounts submitted and approved It failed to find. any similar accounts \ in the postoflice department, the disburs- ing officer testifying that there were no \ trips to San Francisco at government ex- h pense reportedS for the convention period. It heard something of the industrial grour organization plan of soliciting campaign funds employed by New York city work CTS for the republican national committee 2 It explored the financing of the soldier 2 ublicatien, stars and Stripes" develop . ing possible connection between the
 paper and the democratic national com a rnittee. It heard the charge made that i the American Legion Weekly was con-
 trolled by the republican national com , e mittee. It listened 10 a charge that Sen. ,- ator Edge. New Jersey, a republican member of the committee. was in som, ' way connected with campaign agains H. the Stars and Stripes" and then to ar . admission that the charge had no bash - but speculation and rumor. It heard II 'e detail from Lockwood of the financing O re the Republican National Weekly. and O > the bulk circulation methods by whic'
 the paper reached employees at the ex ie pense of employers but without know T. ledge of the recipient of the employers ' share in the matter; and it went deepl. . into the financing and activities of tn t- League to Enforce Peace.
 C In addition the committee heard als ce from Lockwood that the documents pre- T. sented by Senator Reed which prompte
 his investigation of the National Repu
 lican were stolen frcm the les nof hls of
 flee in Ohio. An em2loye told him. h V added. that he had been offered a larg
 sum" to sell out certain material" an he asked for "a certain amount of money as not to do it.
 u- T sent word to him that he was ne blackmaler and to so to hell--or to go |
 this committee" Lockwood added fly Senator Reed said the papers had bee re- referred to in the Chicago testimony of l he H. Moore. and added: And they al AA- nSTe as GNlQGuCG. 1HGg SpGdh TOT then on selves"
 Lockwood said he had referred to tr m alleged theft of his papers only as just 'ti- fication" fer calling the committees a 'ho tention to the incident of the Met of Products company and the Cox not we Senator Reed again said he would insi Of on going into that matter, whatever Il
 jurisdiction of the committee.
 wo We are ready to go to the botto zf IA n Tn dered the subpoena for Talbot sent. ith Books of the League to Enforce Peac presented by Herbert G. Houston, u al treasurer, showed total collections ads s5S1, 900 in the five years since the leagl eX- was organized All of this had been e
 pended, Houston said, except for . bs the ance of about $500 He added that u cen league had stopp ed soliciting funds iy- May, 1920, and did not propose to T ;lal sume until after the presidential electio the The list of contributors to the leag interested committee members, wi Ter. sought to identify the large contributor or These included B. M. Baruch, form He President Taft, Charles M. Schwab, E hic sell Ford, J. P. Morgan. members of | de- Mccormick family of Chicago. and SCOT vas of others. Altogether the names of | ter. 900 contributors were on the lists. T
 largest single contributor disclosed du
 ing the eXamludIlOu WAS 0dTuCus WI
 total of s47,0oe
 The committees inquiry into the N, Sos York city republican campaign organiz
 tion closed it's days work. L. E. Pes eys son, general chairman of the ways a seu means committee for the state. said th in $3Ts,0oO had so far been turned in uIy national funds from its work. my "We have never made up quota, eo discussed the amount we expect to ge
 he said, explaining that the work "
 still going on.
 "The Dayton Metal Products Compai NO a holding company for airplane concern
 Mir Lockwood told the committee, 'tc has up in 1918 a $5.o0o not for James pm- Cox This was in some fashion ca oc- paign contribution. The same company
 1916 gave S21,o00 for the campaign
 James M. Cox and Woodrow Wilson
 Ohio. It was claimed that this was p
 sonalfy given by Messrs. Deeds, Ketter JED and Talbot. MT. Deeds is the gentlen
 later recommended by Charles E. Hug of- for courtmartial in airplane construct by matters during the war"
 and Are you talking about something inds know, or what you was told you bon somebody" Senator Reed demanded.