Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-25
IMPLIES OHIOAN SECRETED S5OOO CAMPAIGN CHECK
,CoNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

Democratic national committee. It
 heard the charge made that the Am
 erican Legion Weekly was controlled
 by the Republican national commit
 tee. It listened to charge that
 Senator Edge, New Jersey, Republi.
 can member of the committee was
 ln some way connected with a cam paign against the Stars and Stripes and then to an admission that the
 charge had no basis but speculation and rumor. ....
 Reed Presents Documents
 It heard in detail from Lockwood of the financing of the Republican National Weekly and of the bulk of circulating methods by which the paper reached employees at the ex- pense of employers, but without knowledge of the recipients of the employers share in the matter; and 1t went deeply into the financing and activities of the League to Enforce Peace.
 In addition, the committee heard also from Lockwood that the docu- ments presented by Senator Reed which prompted his investigation of the National Republican were stolen from the files of his office in Ohio. An employe told him, he added, that he had been offered a large sum to sell out certain material and asked Tor a certain amount of money" not to do it.
 ~ sent word to him that he
 was a bIackmaiIer and to go to
 hell-or to go to this commit
 tee," Lockwood added.
 Senator Reed said the papers had been referred to in the Chicago tes- timony by B. H. Moore and added:
 And they are here as evidence. They speak for themselves"
 Lockwood said he had referred to the alleged theft of his papers only as a Justification" for calling the committees attention to the incident ! of the Metal Products Company ano the Cox note. Senator Reed again said he would insist on going into | that matter, whatever the jurisdrc- !! tion of the committee.
 Big Balance Remains.
 We are ready to go to the bottom | of it." Chairman Kenyon said. He l then ordered the subpoena for Tal bot sent. isj. |
 Books of the League to Enforce | Peace, presented by Herbert G. Hous | ton. treasurer, showed total collec, tions of $S51,000 in the five years since the league was organized. All of this had been expended, Houston said. except a balance of about s6OO,OO0. He added that the League had stopped soliciting funds in May, 1920, and did not propose to resume until after the presidential election under its articles of incorporation forbidding political propaganda of a partisan character. Such bulletins as have been issued since the na- tional conventions, he said have been designed to furnish information and not to influence voters in their { choice.
 The list of contributors to the ] league interested committee mem, bers. who bored over the books and sought to identify the large contrib utors. These included B. N. Baruch Former President Taft, Chas. M. Schwab, Edsel Ford. J. P. Morgan, ] members of the Mccormick family of . Chicago. and scores of others. Alto gether the names of ten thousand contributors were on the lists The largest single contributor disclosed was Baruch with S47.0GO.
 Members Change Opinions
 Mir Houston said the progress Of debate in the senate and elsewhere, on the League of Nations covenant had caused some members of the League to Enforce Peace to change their opinions regarding acceptance or the covenant by the United States reservations. This accused Senator Reed, who engaged the wit ness in an argument as 10 the coy enant, declaring he believed that fur iher reflection would cause even gre"ter changes of opinion among those who had advocated ratification without reservations.
 The committee's inquiry into the New York City Republican campaign organization closed it's days work. L.. F.. Pearson. general chairman of Inc ways and means committee for Inc state. said that S376,OOO so far had been turned into national funds rom ifs work.
 Organized 30 Groups
 We have never made up q quota 'r discussed the amount we expect o get" he said. explaining that inc work was still going on.
 T r. Stevens. chairman of Inc com nittec raising moucy ip the Borough 'f Manhattan. cxplained Inc group organization.
 We have organized 3O groups 'ach representing an industry or 'sincss >n th- principle worked out