Arizona republican., 1920-06-05
TESTIFIES HOOVER CAMPAIGN IN WEST
 COST ONLY $83, ,21O
California Manager Gives Figures Showing Sums Expended in Pacific Coast States
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 WASHINGTON, June 4.-Warren Gregory, president of the Hoover Re publican club of California, testified tonight before the senate committee Investigating campaign expenditures that the total expenses incurred in California in connection with the Johnson Hoover primary fight there and in other Pacific coast states amounted to $S3,210.z2.
 MT. Gregory testified that there were many subscribers to the Hoover fund and that the largest subscription re- ceived was for $3000 s'from q lifelong friend of MT. Hoover" He denied charges of the Johnson managers that there were many hired workers. de- cIaring that almost all of the workers were volunteers
 Claims Estimates Exaggerated
 On taking the stand MT. Gregory read a prepared statement in which he said he had come from San Francisco as quickly as possible ito place before the committee the exact expenditures made by the friends of Mr. Hoover in the late California primaries.
 "AIr. McCabe one of Senator John sons managers, he said, testified re- gently before the committee that he believed those expenses would exceed SS00,000. That is a grossly excessive estimate. The total expenses incurred in California, including the San Fran cisco and Los Angeles offices, which were as well the headquarters for the whole western division and all local offices. was $S3,210.72 The amount expended for other Pacific coast states makes the total in California consider ably less.
 "A great majority of the newspapers in California were active in behalf or the candidacy of Senator Johnson, many editors having been appointed to office by Johnson and a further num- Der, being on his delegation, would not publish the facts for the Hoover peo- pie, and We were compelled to resort to paid advertisements and circulars to meet the great Johnson publicity and huge billboard campaign which ex- tended all over the state. The state of California has over 100, 900 votes, and the mailing of one letter to each voter costs approximately $44000
 ''The campaign in behalf of Mir. Hoover was not financed by any single individual. The largest subscription we received was for s3000 from a life long friend Of MT. Hoover. The great bulk of the money was made of sub scriptions of finder s100 each. There are many thousands of subscribers to this fund.
 Almost all the workers were volun- teers, there having been at San Fran cisco headquarters but 15 paid em- ployes."
 Can't Estimate Wood Expenses
 Horace $. Stebbins of New York eastern treasurer of the Wood national campaign committee, said he would be unable to estimate the Wood na- tional fund until the books were au- dited. Chairman Kenyon of the com mittee thought that addition of $74,39O to the total of S1.1S0,000 esti- mated by <. A. Sprague, the Wood fund treasurer at Chicago, would give the grand total. Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Democratic member of the com mittee, however, figured that approx | imately S22S 900 should be added to MT. | Sprague's total.
 While the committee was hearing MT. Stebbins, the senate sent to com mittee, with instructions to report to- 1 morrow, the resolution offered yester- day by Senator Pomerene proposing l that the scope of the inquiry be en- larged to include congressional cam paigns and that the Investigation be continued through the November cleo tion
 Stebbins, whom senate officers had 1 been seeking since early in the inquiry, was the only witness at the commit ] tees one-day session. He declared
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