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Senate Also Will Inves,i-
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'Slush Fund Charges Up
Expenditure of $4,000 by
Lowden i'm Missouri 10
Receive Special Attention

From The Trib0'tc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May S1.-Activities
of the Anti-Saloon League, the Plumb
Plan League and other organizations
that are not supporting the candidacy
of any particular aspirant for the
Presidential nomination will be inves-
tigated by the Senate committee in
quiring into pre-convention campaign
expenditures.
The committee to-day subpenaed
officers of the nti-Saloon League and
the Plumb Plan League, and it was
announced also that before the hear
ings are concluded the partisan
campaign being conducted by the
American Federation Of Labor will be
gone into
Baker Is Summoned
?. A. Baker, general secretary of the
ntl-Saloon League, was summoned to
explain the purpose for which the dry
forces sought S23 100000, for which
they appealed after the national prohi-
bition amendment became effective.
The part played in New York State
politics by the AntiSaloon League also
will be investigated, members of the
committee said, and it is the intention
Of the committee to call William A.
Anderson, head of the New York dry
forces.
w. P. Neville. of St. Louis. treasurer
Of the Plumb Plan League, has been
summoned to appear tomorrow, when
hearings will be resumed. Committee
members said that they want to know
how much money the league is spend
ing TO affect Presidential nominations.
The committee will adjourn it's in
vestigation Thursday until after the
Republican National Convention. Chair
man Kenyon said to day that he ex-
poets to resume the hearings before
the Democratic convention meets in
San Francisco. All witnesses who have
been supoenaed have been asked to ap-
Broaden "Slush Fund Inquiry
The committee took steps to-day to
extend its investigation of the Cali
fornia "slush fund" charges brought
against Senator Hiram W. Johnson and
Herbert Hoover, and also 10 probe
more deeply into the campa gns Of
Major General Leonard Wood and
Governor Frank O. Lowden.
William Joeb jr., who, according to
the testimony of A. A. Sprague, ma
tional treasurer Of the Wood organiza-
ton, collected S225,000 and sent it to
the Wood headquarters at Chicago. has
been asked to appear tomorrow and
give the committee the names of the
persons who contributed
Senator Kenyon said the com
mittec had not been able to get in
communication with II. c. Stebbins. of
New York, Eastern treasurer of the
Wood organization. Thomas w. Miller.
associated with Representative Nor
man }: Gould as manager Of the East
ern ood headquarters testified te-
tore the committee saturday that the
Wood organization spent only $156 600
IN the eleven Eastern states, but he
could not give detailed accounting
OF the expenditures, which were han
died by Mr.. Stebbins
Seek Facts Regarding Missouri
The expenditure of $4,000 in Mis-
souri,, where no primary election was
held, bv the Lowden forces will be
made the subject of d special inquiry.
Several witnesses were summoned to-
day to appear and testify regarding
the Missouri campaign.
The list of witnesses called includes
Mrs. Antoinctte Funk, of the Lowdcn
forces in Chicago; Nat Goldsten, of
st. Louis; R. E. Moore, of St Louis,
and J. +. Babler of St. Louie, Repub-
lican National Committeeman from
Missouri.
of the Johnson campaign in California,
has been subpoenaed to thrbw some
light on the alleged 100000 johnson
"slush fund