Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-30
HAYS TAKES STAND,
SAYS COP. QUOTAS
WERE ONLY GOALS
Chairman Testifies Esti-
mates Were Always High
and Changed.
ORGANIZATION DETAILS
OF STATE PLANS GIVEN
Declares $1,000 Limit Was Decid-
ed Upon to Make Drive for
Funds Popular.

BY the Associated Press
| CHICAGO. August 30-Senate in
| vestigation of republican and democratic
presidential campaign expenditures
started here today. The senatorial COM
/ mittee appointed prior to the conven-
! tons. Teopened its inquiry by delving
into the national campaign chests, both
the sums already raised and the amounts
which the party leaders seek. The in
| quiry, for the time being. at Least. has
| become one of the paramount issues of
the campaign.
AT the outset of the hearing Senator
! Kenyon introduced the newspaper ac-
! counts of Gov. Cox's speech at Pitts
| burgh. the committees telegram to him
and the governors reply.
Senator Reed argued that the commit
| tees duty had been earlier set as ito
| find every dollar collected and ex-
pended by both national organizations.
! He said this course would have been
| followed whether Gov. Cox had made
| charge or not
Newspaper Accounts Accepted.
Without record vote the commit
| tee received the newspaper accounts
of Gov. Coxs speeches at Wheeling.
w. Va: Pittsburgh and Evansville.
| A shorthand account of the Pitts
| burgh speech was also placed in the
| record.
| Will Hays. chairman of the republi-
can national committee, was then CAL
led to the stand.
| Mr.. Hays told the senators at the
outset of his testimony that the re-
publican management welcomed the
| opportunity further fully to set forth
the effort of the republican national
committee to popularize the giving
/ n n aF,nr ON hr,
getting small contributions from a
great many men and women, thus for
ever eliminating any possible oppor-
| tunity for ''sinister influence in con-
nection with money in politics"
He said this plan for raising money
grew out of two primary causes:
| The real desire to work a real re-
form in the elimination of any pos
sible improper obligation" and be-
cause. experience in raising funds for
war purposes had made popular
drives familiar activity. and it SEEM
| ed possible to undertake that kind of
action by political organization"
Hope to Increase Interest.
! 1--WE particularly hoped that this
activity would increase the political
interest," he said
/ Mr.. Hays explained that the plan
was proposed early in 1919. and that
| the purpose has been to limit the con-
| tributions to thousand dollars for
any one year from any individual, or
thousand dollars before the nomi-
mating convention and a thousand
F, after.
I'VE have all tried to adhere to that
plan" he said.
Mr.. Hays described the organization
of a general committee of ways and
means, acting under the treasurer, to
carry the work into each state, and
of a state ways and means committee,
with man as state chairman and q
woman as vice chairman: then to en-
deaVor to get county chairman of
ways and means and woman vice
chairman. and then, by such process
es of organization as the localities
might adopt, to organize, just as in
Red Cross or liberty loan campaign.
THE greatest publicity has been
given to the movement" he explained,
because, he said:
Upon the acquainting of the party
public of the purpose depended the
political interest"
Tentative Quotas Fixed.
"As the effort progressed" the wit
ness said, tentative quotas were Ak
ed by the treasurers office. all tenta-
tive and rather as a goal-always
high. of course. for the particular
state to drive for. and changing con-
stantly.'
y -
methods of orga aniZing the states and
discussed arrangements made with
both the senatorial and congressional
campaign committees of the party to
the end that there would be but one
money-raising organization.
IN that connection" he said. "it
was understood between the national
committee and these two committees
that the collecting organization OF the
national committee would help raise
the money for them, guaranteeing to
them the amounts which they thought
would be necessary for the congress
sional and senatorial campaigns.
How Budget Was AppOrtiOned.
"The campaign budget or estimate
was worked out, beginning as of July
/. of a total amount which would be
needed for the actual campaign, and
this was s3,079.037.20.' he said. or
this total S255,100 was apportioned
to the speakers bureau. Headquar-
ters expenses were set at S150,S24 for
Washington. New York. Boston, Chi
cago, Denver and San Francisco. and
rents for all headquarters were es-
timated at $45,643.
For publicity, sl,34s,5oo was appro-
priated, and for miscellaneous OBJ
jects, such as bureaus of clubs, ship
ping departments and distribution,
freight. express, all travelling and
other expenses incident to raising of
money. S6S0,920 was set aside.
1T is my opinion that about this
amount will be necessary for the ma
tional committee to spend" said Mr..
HAYS. There may be expenses aris-
ing, of course, that we cannot now
anticipate but this is approximately
the amount that we believe necessary"
Unity of Collecting.
This does not, of course, include
collections for states where there is
a mutual agreement that such COL
lecting for state and national COM
mittees shall be done Jointly. While
ii makes the total amount that passes
through the national committee treas
ury greater than is spent by the
national committee, it gives a unity
of collecting effort that is desirable,
both in the saving of time and labor,
and less bother to the one who is So
licited.
"It is my opinion that the total
amount which has been, and will be,
finally collected by the joint money
raising organizations for the use of
all state committees in their state
elections will approximate a million
dollars. This is no part of the ma
tional committees fund
Mr.. Hays said that "at different
periods different quotas have been suC-
gested by the treasurers Office as
tentative goals in different states: and
the state committees themselves have
fixed different quotas These are
changing constantly, and always. of
course. were made very much higher
than the amount either necessary or
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