Evening star., 1920-06-03
WOOD FUND AIRED
WHEN COMMITTEE
PROBES ACCOUNTS
Ledger Examination Reveals
Receipts and Expenditures,
With Original Plans.

The Senate was asked today by
Senator POmerene, democrat. Ohio,
to authorize the committee fn-
vestigntinE pre-convention poht-
fcaI hnancing to extend it's inquiry
to the presidential and senatorial
campaign which WIN esd Ssisk the
elections In November.
senator PomeFene's request was
In the form Of a resolution. whfch
went over until tomorrow mt the
request Of Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts.
Senate Investigation into pre-con-
vention campaign expenditures was
interrupted today while members OF
the committee participated in the de-
bate on the Senate floor on the reso-
luton providing for adjournment OF
Congress Saturday.
Before the interruption the commit
tee reverted to the financing of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Woods campaign. call
ing w. B. Burtt, assistant to Col.
William Cooper Proctor of Cincinnati.
mittee. and c. H. Duell of New York.
who said he was associated with the
Wood campaign until the change in
management last January, when John
T. King quit as national manager.
In business life he was assistant
and confidential man. for Ambrose
Mcneil of New York, who, it has been
testified. was a heavy contributor to
the Wood campaign fund.
Produces Campaign Records.
Mr.. Burtt said he had brought
papers from the Wood national. COM
mittee and produced a suit case and
two bundles, from which he took a
set of formidable looking ledgers.
The committee discussed the showing
of the various accounts with him.
He said one of the volumes con-
tanned all the requests for funds filed
with the national Wood committee by
state and district managers, and a
notation of the action taken. Com
plying with an Indiana state law,
Gen. Woods name was signed to the
orders filed by the committee in that
state, but the witness explained that
the initials "R. T." under the gem
erals name meant that the actual
sisnator was Robert Tyler, formally
selected as agent for the general in
Mr.. Burtt said $4,000 had been
spent in Indiana, but explained other
by saying that unpaid bills would
bring the Indiana total to s5S,000.
'In order to carry out your work
in businesslike way" Chairman
Kenyon observed, your committee
found it necessary to have printed a
Funds.
Chairman Kenyon turned to bound
receipt book.
S25.OOO From Loeb.
Received from William Loeb.
March 20. 1920. $4,000" he read.
The witness said he was not in
formed. Mr.. Loeb has been mentioned
in previous testimony. as having
transmitted $225,0O0 from Wood
committee in New; York.
The names of William Wrigley, jr..
and c. d. Shaffer of Chicago. pre-
yiousIy mentioned as heavy contrib
off the receipt books by the COM
Senator Pomerene. democrat, Ohio,
referred to payments of $4,000 to
Burtt himself, which were shown by
the. books. The witness said they
."rhis was accounted for to the
committee by A. A. Sprague, treasurer
of the national committee. when he
was here last week." Mr.. Burtt said.
o. H Duell OF New. York was the
next witness. He told the committee
he was Associates with the Wood
campaign during the early days and
until the change in management,
which occurred in / January, when
John T., King went out"
Planned to Rinse 100000.
"The first plan was to raise half
million dollars to finance national
campaign" he continued. There was
a meeting at the home of Ambrose
Mcneil, where Gen. Wood, Robert Cas-
satt and myself were present 1t was
in the end of November. 1919"
WAS the meeting prearranged p"
asked Senator Spencer republican. Mis-
souri,
"Yes. Mr.. Cassatt was asked to un-
dertake the task" was the reply.
Later he definitely declined to take
paEt,; and so far as know, did not take
pArtsS.
Mr. Mcneil. he said, did agree to go
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