Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-09

measure was promulgated and form
101 was supposed never to have ex-
listed.
Senator Kenyon-Is that the. truth
about 1912"
| Mr.. Blair-Yes.
Senator Kenyon-Was it ever sent
out to be used by any workers with
your knowledge. or sent out by Mr..
Upham that you know of?
Mr.. Blair-Absolutely not.
Mr. Blair said 'treasurers office had
virtually no expense for printing thus
far. but was planning to capitalize"
the advertising given the Official Bull
letin by Gov. Cox and print thousands
of copies of it.
You think your Bulletin has been
pretty well advertised Senator Ken
yon asked.
Il think our dear friend, Gov. Cox,
has given it the greatest advertise-
| ment any unpretentious publication
| that was ever put out has ever
had" Mr.. Blair rejoined. at is get
we are going to capitalize it,
The Official Bulletin is, the 'house
organ" from which Gov. Cox at. Pitts
burgh read extracts of Mr.. Blaif's I'M
accepted plan for raising the cam
paign fund. -:
Friction Breaks Ont.
Friction between Senator Reed, and
Mr.. Blair broke at the night session.
when the Missouri senator accused
Reeds ire was reused when Mr.. Blair.
asked what his salary as assistant to
Mr.. Upham is. replied:
six hundred dollars a month. I
have no perquisites, as senator's do
DO you know Of any perquisites
| senator's have, since you are SO In
solent"' Senator Reed asked. Let
me tell you something. You are a
witness here and you are going. to
answer questions like a, gent1eman.n,'
Senator Kenyon interviewed and re.
stored peace.
Mr.. Blair told the committee that
ms assistants were paid from $50 to
$500 week. Chicago, New York and
several other cities each has an in
dividual director, he said. The Chicago
director. Frederick G. Barbour. head
OF a. New York, organization Of pro-
fessional money raisers, receives $500
| week and his hotel bills,s The
Cnicago money raising campaign, with
$5O0,000 as it's goal. is being started,
ne said. with a dinner Of team cap
talns. and workers at a downtown
hotel. He estimated there were 500
men engaged in the Chicago campaign
to raise the half million dollars in the
next seven days. In addition, Senator
Reed brought out, there is a woman's
Organization which has been raising
money for four or five months in
Illinois. Mrs. Jacob Bauer, who has
Deen subpoenaed, is in charge, Mr.
6iair. said, without salary.
Blair's Assistants,
Among his paid assistants, most Of
whom. in addition to their salaries,
receive $50 weekly for expenses, Mr.
Blair named:
Henry E. owen. central region di-
! rector. 5000 weekly; Charles B. Nc
Keand. $500; Walter Quarrels, 500;
G: w. Lee. eastern regional director.
5000: John A. Kelly. Ohio. director,
tor. $3.50: Albert II. Weigel: Okla
| Thompson. Illinois, director. $3.50;
ESQ e + Wsh Z Masity iowa spss
tor. $3.50; L. 8. Mcdonald. Colorado.
Slo0; E. H. Brown. California direc-
tor. 1925; w. A. King. San Francisco
and Los Angeles. director, $3.50; W.
Los Angeles, 800; H. r. Evarts, also
| Of Oklahoma, director. 800; Benja-
min TAFT, assistant to Mr.; Evarts,
$125; Morton McCormac. Tennessee
director. s1e9i T. G W Whit dire, dsses
and Massachusetts. $3.50: D. w. VIII
liams, assistant to Mr.. Whltehiil IN
Maine and Massachusetts. $125; A F.
.s ass,s,sp. n ke No amR
l Srirc anu DQStOtfbn NtSN4s ~. - t-eess
assistant in Vermont, western Massa-
chusetts and Boston, 1925: P. L. MCCOY,
assistant to Mr.. Whitehill. 800: = y.
Sawyer assistant to Mr.. Whitehili, $IO0;
R. P. Strine, Detroit director, 500
| week; A. A. ProtZnan, Cleveland dlrec-
tor. 500: ]. H. Hampton. field man in
Ohio, $75; Edmund Silverbrand, north
eastern Ohio director. 800. 49,.
| James Wright. New York city direc-
| tor. works directly under Col William
Boyce Thompson. chairman OF the re-
publican national ways and means COM
mittee. and has been engaged for ABOUT
fifteen months at salary OF about $l00
a week. Mr.. Blair said.
Question of Press Ethics.
| question Of newspaper ethics halted
the investigation at the opening of the
| afternoon session. c. c. Brainerd,
| Washington correspondent for the
Brooklyn Eagle, declined to reveal the
identity of a man from whom he OBJ
| tanned information used as the basis
| Of an article published in that paper
January II. The article discussed al
legged republican plans to raise ma
tion-wide campaign fund Of $16,000.o eco