The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat., 1920-07-08
Senate Committee Investigat-
ing Campaign Expenditures
to Grill a Few Demo-
Gratis. -
DID REED SUGGEST IT?
Senator Who Was Ousted From Ma
tonaI Convention May Have
Urged This lnvestiga
tion.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
! CHICAGO, July S.-The senate
committee, investigating campaign
expenditures, will open an investiga
ition of democratic expenditures a
Missouri at St Louis tomorrow morn
ing, it was announced here today by
lSenator Kenyon, chairman.
Subpoenaes have been issued OF
twenty prominent Missouri demo
Icrats, according to Kenyon, to appear
before the committee to tell what
they know of money spent by demo
cratic presidential candidates Those
who have been subpoenaed include
Joseph T. Davis and National Com
imitteeman Edward =. Goltral st
Louis
| The investigation, believed to have
been urged by Senator James A.
Reed, who was ousted from the dem.
ocratic national convention will also
include an inquiry into expenditures
by Missouri delegates to the San
Francisco convention.
Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro re-
publican national committeeman from
Georgia, was to be grilled today by
the committee on the disposition of
$500 which is alleged to have been
sent to him by the Lowden campaign
managers.
Georgia's Negro Vote.
CHICAGO, July S.-That eighty
five per cent of the negro vote in
Georgia is "outrageously suppressed
by brutal force" was the testimony
here today before the senate commi-
tee Investigating campaign expendi-
lures, OF Henry Lincoln Johnson,
negro republican national committee
man from Georgia.
position of $500 alleged to have
been sent him by Lowden campaign
managers, declared that it was 81
struggle for republican to vote in
Georgia" s#.
In the last three or four years,
said Johnson, there has been a great
exodus Of negroes from Georgia.
Every time the whites burn a vic
tim, many colored people leave the
state for more kindly shores he
said.
In response to a question by Ken
yon as to whether men were lynched
for being republicans, Johnson an
swered in the affirmative.
I'm 1883 a man voted for Benjamin
Harrison and he hasn't been seen
since" Johnson said. .s.-
Johnson testified that the Lowden
expenditures in Georgia amounted to
$4,000. $1,000 of which, he said, he
contributed from his own pocket. 1t
was all spent he said, in sending out
circulars, postage stamps and travel
ing.
Wood campaign managers, he de-
clared, spent from 100000 to $4,000.
Johnson declared Attorney General
Palmer's campaign in Georgia was
worked through federal job holders.
Johnson's testimony concluded to-
DAYS hearing and the committee will
leave tonight for st. Louis, where an
investigation into democratic expend-
itures will be opened. ...,
Senator Kenyon announced that to-
DAVIS hearing wound up the probe
of republican candidates expendi-
lures and that from now on the COM
mittee will concentrate on the demo-
Gratis. ... .n..
May Probe Palmer.
CHICAGO. July S.--Activities Of
Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer
we're to be considered today by the
senate committee Investigating pri-
mary campaign expenditures, accord
ne to Chairman w. S. Kenyon.
Charges that the attorney generals
,ffice was used by Palmer to further
,is personal interests may be con-
,idered. Kenyon said.
Edward F. Goltra, democratic ma
tional committeeman from Missouri
las been summoned as a witness
Ioltra led the fight against seating
Senator James Reid Of Missouri, at
he democratic national convention,
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