Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-04
FURTHER LIGHT ON CAMPAIGNS
 OF WOOD AND LoWDEN

Washington, June (By the A. P.).-I Senate committee investigation of pre- convention presidential campaign activi- ties had approached new phase if not a virtual conclusion tonight future de- velopments being in doubt pending action in the senate on Senator Pomerenes pro- posal to- change radically the scope and purpose of the inquiry and carry it be- Jond the November election.
 | Action on the resolution, which would o7ng congressional as well as presidential Iicampaigns within the committees juris- | dlctlon, was delayed at the request of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, republi- can leader. It will come up tomorrow and the committee, pending any altera- ton of it's charter powers, began winding up the hearing of witnesses already sum- l Eloped.
 Tine days sessions were freuuently in- 'terrupted by senate votes on adjournment,
 which rev members to the floor Three wllne - were heard, however, two of | them throwing additional light on the
 fnanc.ng of Major General Woods cam paign for the republican nomination, 'while the third brought additional infor- I lnation as to activities for Senator Hard- l Ing and Governor Lowden in Missouri. From c. H. Duell of New York, former 1 ly connected with the Wood financial ar- engagements, the committee got the state Ement that General Wood was present at l discussion at the home of Ambrose E.
 Mcneil in New York last fall where ways | ana means of financing his campaign were talked over fornaT meeting at tended by Duell, Mcneil and Robert Cas- I sat- ot Philadelphia had been called, the | witness said, and at this meeting Mcneil proposed that certain number of men
 be asked to 'underwrite" the Wood cam | tn fLa 1e Cassatt finally declined to enter into the
 arrangement, Duell said, and his recoi-
 lection was that General Wood came in
 later, alter N meeting. Discussion of me ilhancIa' side of the campaign had C 'Atii4uoG. he added, but he could not re-
 cal anything that General Wood mig 1t
 have said in that connection.
 Questions by Senator Reed democrat
 Mlssouri, drew from the witness state ment that in view of the general nature
 or the conversation General Wood could
 not have failed to know it's purport and
 the amounts being discussed as necessary 7 to raise.
 When w. L. Cole, republican state } Vchairman in Missouri and delegate-at- - large from that state. appearing at his l own request. took the stand, the scene X shifted to that state. He presented 2 ? nrlef explanation Of previous testirnon, f which showed that he had received fund, rom both the Harding and Lowden in terests for work in Missouri He entered e flat denial that he had known that tb. check for $500 given him by E. L. Morse
 manager of the Lowden campaign outsid, or St. Louis, was from Lowden funds O, that It was given him with any under | standing it was to be used in the Illinois T governors behalf He had regarded tb, money as personal contribution iron
 Morse he said, to aid in the repubiica, T hght to fill vacancy in the Third Mis-
 sourl congressional district which Morsi
 had insisted that Cole conduct.
 As to $1,250 which the witness said h,
 mad received from Harry M Daugherty ' ! manager for Senator Harding, Cole de
 clared 1t was given him to use in irwin, 2 10 make the senator the second choice a e the Missouri delegation and after he ha, e told Daugherty that he believed Missour a was 'sewed up" for Lowden.
 n The other witness as to p'oad financin d was w. B. Burtt of Chi who de
 scribed himself as assist and oon6
 dential man. for Mcneil. His testirnon, $ he insisted, could add nothing to matte r. already furnished to the committee h,, y he left some accounts with the committa e for study
 TWO other prospective witnesses who's testimony is still to be taken were hear ' rom during the day. A Montreal mes e sage from Horace S. Stebbins, easter S treasurer of the Lincoln Wood leagu, 1t ana Valniy sought by subpoena server l. 1oI several days, said he would appes "a tomorrow, while Warren Gregory coT
 nected with the Hoover campaisn i
 CalHornia, telegraphed from Boston tha
 ne also was on his way Stebbins sai
 he har just learnes that he was wanta A as a witness. ''ii 'e
 The committee planned to call no othe = witness but to hear those already SIT lg moned who had not yet put in an ar,1oa, le ance. Included among those was a M k Greenbaum asked to bring books coy ie nected With the financing of Senatc " Johnson's sampaign in California hut it was not known tonight whether hn ale i planned to appear tomorrow. when af D. Journment or at least recess of 1T
 probably will ha talyoo POA ~"