Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-01
TELLS SENATORS !
OF MORE EFFORTS
BY GOLD D|GGER,
Campaign Budget Calls forS
Nearly Million to Elect
Congressman. 81
fpS
DECLARES HE NEVER SAW
QUOTA FOR ANY OF CITIES
Treasurer Gets Around Bulletins
by Saying They Were lust
Plain Bull"
BRITTEN HAS NO EVIDENCE
Representative Sorry Spectacle Try
ing to Provo Democrats Are
Using British Money.
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BRITTEN HAS NO EVIDENCE
Representative Sorry Spectacle Try.
ing to Provo Democrats Are
Using British Money.
thy Associated Press. ]


CHICAGO, August 3l.-Republicar
finances were again under scrutiny
or the Senate committee investigat-
ing campaign expenditures today.
VIII Ii. Hays. Fred Upham and other
party leaders found occasion for
further denial of Governor Cox's
charges that *l5,000.00o fund was
being raised. and also took occasion
to offer the committee leads directed !
toward the Democratic coffers.
Mr. Upham, treasurer OF theS Sc
publican National Committee, was
questioned at great length by Sena
tors Pomercne and Reed, Democrats,
who ellcitcd from him information
that the congressional and senator
'al campaign committees OF tho o
party had budgets totaling 100000
IN addition to the more than S3-s
100000 budget appearing in CHAIR.
mnna Hays testimony yesterday. y.
Called for si,401,ooo
At Senator Reeds request, Mr..
Upham. the national treasurer, read
n table OF state quotas which the
witness said he made up fourteen
months before Senator Il ding waa5
nominated. This table totalcd more
than s4.As1.5oO. but Mr.. Upham ex-
planned that he had no hope or desire
TO collect more than $4,000, 900 of this
amount.
Senator Reed delved deeply into
the amounts assigned counties, cities
and other local subdivisions of the
party organizations. but did not shake
Mr. Upham's denial that he had no
hnowlcdge OF the city quota list;
which Governor Cox read In his
speech at Pittsburgh last week. The
questioning by the Missouri Sana-
tor finally led to the point ,ul
Mr. Upham said he ala not knyM
now much OF the various State
quotas was assigned to particular
localities. He said he knew OF only
two city financial directors OF the
party in the country, ono each in
Chicago and New York, but 1ao
hoped there were lot more"
II never saw n quota for any citS
in tho United States" said Mr..
Upham. 81 assigned only tho Stata
quotas. and how these were sub
divided by the State organization was
none OF my affair
Reed Says Uphnm Responsible.
NO. but you were responsible for
them in law, fact and conscience So
long as these subdivisions were made
by agents OF your committee and col
long as these agents did nothing
criminal in carrying out your sys-S
tem," rejoined Senator Reed
Senator Reed then argued there
was no way to limit the amounts
that might be collected in any one
state. and Mr.. Upham retortcd that
he would stop them before they got
to three million dollars
Mr.. Upham agreed with Senator =
Pomerene that it was both possible
and probable that such largo sups
would be raised in industrial ~
by each party OF which the naN
officers OF the party would have
knowledge. The witness said no &
knew what amounts would be
pended by county organizations q
then, reverting to the list OF fifty,
cities which Governor Cox used,
said he had never heard a staten
that only four copies OF this
were made.
Mr.. Upham turned over n complt
ME or the treasurers official bull
tins. to which Governor Cox also !,
ferred Senator Reed pointed o
discrepancies between some items
'''N buAietih anu inc nSt or sta
receipts given the committee by nj
upham. The latter declared tho Lar
guage of the bulletin. which. he sal
was designed to encourage the field
workers. might be taken as a mani.l
festation OF good salesmanship, over
enthusiasm or Just plain bull."es
Denies Help From Interests.
Under questioning by Ghairmsir. s
Kenyon. Mr.. Upham said the list of
more than 10000 contributors which
he turned over to the COMMITTEES rer4
resented the double purpose to pops3
uiarize the campaign fund and Mt ];
the same time get many stockhoid -4s
ers, knowing that stockholders would.
vote the ticket" He said there hads
been no contributions from largo Ines
terests, and when the 1904 situation
was recalled by Senator Kenyon. ne
remembered that Messrs. Ryan and
Belmont. OF New York. were suppossf
to have given about $500 900 each
tho Democratic campaign funl
that year.
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