Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-08
NEW YORK GROUP UNDERWR0TE MILLION FOR GENERAL WOOD Inquiry Into Campaign Expen- ditures is Resumed at
 Chicago MISSOURI CAMPAIGN
 ALSO UNDER PROBE Palmer Campaign is to be Investi- gated With Charges of Misuse of Power in Department of
 Justice

Chicago, July 7-The senate com. ] mittee Investigating pre-conventior !, campaign expenditures of various can. didates today resumed it's hearings by delving into the organization and expenditures of packers of Major General Wood. The committee also began an exhaustive inquiry into the organization in Missouri of Governor Frank o. Lowden which did not end until early in the evening after vari- ous details of the Roosevelt Taft fight in 1912 had been brought up by wit E nesses. Chief among the witnesses were < William Loeb, formerly private secre- tary to Theodore Roosevelt, who de- < scribed himself as "sort of clearing Nhouse through which Wood funds in &the east passed;" J. L. Babler, repub- #lican national committeeman from X #Missouri, and E. L. Morse of Excel Msior Springs, Mo-, described by wit Illnesses as the distributor of Governor MLowden's campaign funds in Missouri @And boss of the Third Missouri con- district.
 # Ben F. Kesterson of Princeton, Mo-, Brought in the Roosevelt issue. aeclaring that both had spent more honey in Missouri in 1912 than Low Zen in 1920 and described a system of Payment by blank checks for which he received $25 each, but which were ashed for sums up to $250, he said, esterson was a Taft supporter. q After MT. Loeb described how a roup of New York men underwrote 100000 for the Wood campaign, enator James took up the cross ques- oning of nearly dozen witnesses pncerning political conditions in Mis- buri and particularly in the Third Congressional district which he said, as noted as a hotbed of political ghts.
 MT. Loeb presented several check poks which were transcribed into the cords and which he said would show hat funds he disbursed. About l06, ,0O0 passed through his hands, he stified. He also told of sending shier's checks for $5,O0O without companying letters, practice which asserted, was not unusual in poli- cs. He sent those checks wherever was told by Frank Hitchcock, for er postmaster general and a Wood anager.
 Nat Goldstein and Robert Moore, e, two St. Louis delegates to the publican national convention who eviously admitted receiving $2,500 ch to help Lowden's interests, pre- hted cancelled checks as proof they q returned the money.
 \. l.. Babler described the disburse- int of several thousand dollars and Id that sums given to E. B. McJimzy Roscoe Patterson of Springfield, }, candidates for governor and con- bssman, respectively, were intended further the Lowden interest, but
 recipients might have thought
 money was for their own cam gns.
 discussed the Lowden campaign h them, though" said Babler.
 dr. Kesterson was questioned by pator Reed concerning the Taft bsevelt fight in 1912. He claimed t K. L. Moore of Excelsior Springs ployed him for $25 day and ex- ses to boost Taft and paid him in
 making him indorse blank checks the same time.
 he committee plans to delve thor thly into the campaign of Attorney heral A. Mitchell Palmer before burning it's hearings, Chairman hyon said tonight. In connection this Edward F. Goltra of St. lis, democratic national commit nan, and Joseph T. Davis, St. is lawyer, have been subpoenaed. addition to questioning Davis
 Goltra the committee will inves-
 te charges filed today by Will
 Armstrong, Chicago lawyer.
 the department of justice had
 instrumental in granting pardons Alleged criminals who might help tically and had blocked prosecu-
 by the government of the persons ng to gain several hundred thou
 dollars by illegal means.
 r. Armstrong's documents con- ed of printed book of 52 pages.
 Armstrong charged the depart
 { of justice with attempting to
 lent indictments being returned
 nst the New York Central railroad
 federal grand jury and said
 peratic member of congress agreed
 a certain person to obtain $327,-
 B from the government on post
 claims if given 25 per cent.
 tails of his charges are expected
 brought out later.
 NEGRO DIES OF PLAGUE.