Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-01
FURTHER HEARING ON
 CON'S VISIONARY FUND

Chicago. ug. 3l.-Republican finances We're again under scrutiny of the senat. committee Investigating campaign ex- penditures today. Will IL Hays. Fred Cpham and other party leaders found occasion for further denial Of Governor Coxs charges that a sl5.ooO 0oe fund was being raised and also to occasion 10 offer the committee leads directed to- ward the democratic offers.
 Mr. Cpham. as treasurer of the re- publican national committee was aues toned al great length by Senator Pome- rene and Reed, democrats. who elIciteN | from him information that the congress slonal and senatorial campaign commit tees Of the party had budgets totallfng S1OO,00O in addition to the more than three million dollar budget appearing in Cnairman Hays testimony yesterday Senator Reeds reuest Mir Upham. read table Of state quotas which the wit | ness said he made up fourteen months 1 before Senator Harding was nominated | This table totalled more than s44sl 0an but Mr. Cpham explained tha1 he had no | nope or desire 10 collect more than Ss.- 100000 Of this amount.
 Senator Reed delved deeply into the amounts assigned counties. cities and other local subdivisions Of the partv | organization but did not shake Mir I-n- hams denial that he had no knowledge | of the city quota list which Governor Cox read in his speech st Pbtshn--,, last week The questioning by the Mis- souri senator finally led to the point where Mir. Cpham said he did not know how much of the various state uotas was assigned 10 particular localities.
 Senator Reed argued that t-sre N.s no way to limit the amounts that might he collected ip any one state. and Mr Upham retorted that he would .'stor them before they got to three million dollars"
 Mir Upham agreed with Senator Pom creme that it was both possible and probable that large sum would be raised m Industrial centers by either party Of which the national officers Of the psrfv would have no knowledge. The ,yf- ness said that no one knew what amounts would be expended hv coun,y organizations and then revertInr to th. list of 5l cities which Governor CO, used. he said he had never heard of , statement that only four copies Of this list were made.
 Mr. Upham turned over a comn,e.a [ file Of the treasurer's official bulletins to which Governor Cox also referred Senator Reed pointed out discrepancies between some items in the bulletin and the list of state receipts given the com . mittee by Mir Upham.- The latter opin. ed that the language Of inc bulletin which he said was designed 10 eneourar, ' the field workers. might be taken as 2 . manifestation or good salesmanshfp. ov. a er-enthusiasm or -.just plain bull" Chairman Hays resumed the stand tr 1 furnish Senator Reed with informatlor as Co the committees budget for adver
 tising in foreign language newspape-- = He said the party had no appropriat ior . for that purpose. but hope to use som, : of its funds in that direction
 Mir. Hays turned over 10 inc commit
 tee letter from an advertising arenc- % which stated that the democratic or-aui
 zailon was planning 10 insert 0o
 inches Of advert ising in '.the bcs, foreir-
 language newspapers" He said adver
 tising experts had told him there wen i 2il publications which might be place,
 in such a category and that tt svnul,
 cost S225.00O 10 carry the program out
 lined in the letter.
 Senator New. of Indiana. head of tb
 speakers bureau Of the republican ma
 tional committee said he had planned [
 pay some few speakers who could no
 ffford 10 devote time from their reruis
 wcrk to campaigninc
 Congressman Brifal of Illinois wa
 called 10 give evidence Go suppor; pub
 lished charges that British eovernrnen
 funds were being used to further th
 Cox campaign.