Arizona republican., 1920-09-01
Democratic Treasurer Is Summoned to Appear Be fore Committee Today; Probing Press Story
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

CHICAGO, Aug 31.-Republican fir nances were again under scrutiny of the senate committee Investigating campaign expenditures today. Will II Hays, Fred Upham and other party leaders found occasion for further de- niaI of Governor James M. Cox's charges that a $15,000,00O fund was being raised and also offered the com mittee leads directed toward the pen- ocratic coffers. 7 ss k.
 Mr. Upham. as treasurer os tho z publican national scnlnTni tteeY was ge aFf toned at great length. hE &eh88Ml Pomerene and Reed, Democrats. NhDx elicited from him information that the congressional and senatorial campaign committees of the party had budgets totalling $700,000, in addition to the more than s3,000,000 budget appearing in Chairman Hays testimony yester- day. At Senator Reeds request, Mir. Upham read a table of state quotas which the witness said he made up IA months befo-e Senator Harding was nominated This table totaIled S4.491. 500 but MT. Upham explained that he had no hope or desire to collect more than s3,000,000 of this amount.
 Upham Remains Firm
 Senator Reed delved deeply into the amounts assigned counties, cities, and other local sub divisions of the party organization but did not shake Mir. Upham's declaration that he had no knowledge of the city quota list which Governor Cox read in a recent speech at Pittsburg. The questioning by the Missouri senator finally led to the point where MT. Upham said he did not know much of the various state quotas was assigned to particular localities. He said he knew of only two city financial directors of the party. one each in Chi- cago and New York, but he hoped there were a lot more.'
 T never saw a quota for any city in the United States" said Mir. Upham. T assigned only the states quotas and how these were sub- divided by the state organizations was onne of my affair. ;"
 NO. but you are responsible for them in law, fact and conscience so long as these sub divisions were made by agents of your committee and so long IS these agents did nothing criminal in carrying out your system" rejoined Senator Reed.
 Uphan Would Stop City Quotas
 Senator Reed then argued that there was no way to limit the amounts that might be collected in any one state and MT. Upham retorted that he would stop shem before they got to $3.000,- 00O %
 MT. Upham agreed with Senator Pomerene that it was both possible and probable that large sums would be raised in industrial centers by either party of which the national officers or the party would have no knowledge. The witness said no one knew what amounts would be expended by county organizations and then, reverting to the list of 51 cities which Governor Cox used, he said he had never heard a statement that only four copies of this list were made.
 Mir Upham turned over a complete file of the treasurer's Official Bule- tins to which Governor Cox also re- ferred Senator Reed pointed out dis crepanCies between some items in tho Bulletin and the list of state receipts given the committee by Mir. Upham- The latter opinioned that the language Of the Bulletin, which he said was de- signed to encourage the field workers, might be taken as a manifestation of good salesmanshiD, over enthusiasm, or just plain bull"
 Wanted Popular Subscription
 Under questioning by Chairman Kenyon. Republican. of Iowa, Mir. Up- ham said that the list of more than 5V0Oo contributors which he turned over to the committee represented the
 double purpose to popularize the campaign fund and at the same time get many stockholders, knowing that stockholders would vote the ticket" He said there had been no contributions from large interests and when the 1904 situation was recalled by Senator Kenyon, he remembered that GTessas. Ryan and Belmont of New York were supposed to have given about $500 600 each to the Democratic campaign fund of that year.
 DO you think that the numerous farmers and small business men in little towns who have contributed to this years fund as little as a dollar or