Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-03

Financing Of Wood Cam
paign Is Up Fof Discus A
sion Again.

Vo1AAA6LOn, June 3.-Sen0Vo a. S0-f
vestigation into .pre-convention cam
raign expenditures was interrupted
today while members Of the commit
tee participated in the debate on the
senate floor on the resolution prov1d.
ing for adjournment Of congress- on
Saturday. Before the interruptions
the committee reverted to the financ-
ing OF the Major General Wood CAM
paign, calling ". B. Burt assistant
to Colonel William Cooper Proctor OF
Cincinnati, national chairman of the
Wood committee, and G. III. Duell, OF
New York, who said he was associat-
ed with the Wood campaign until the
change in management last January
when John T. King quit as national
manager.
w. B. Burt, assistant to Colonel
VIM. Cooper Proctor, national CHAIR
man of the Wood campaign commit
tee, was the first witness called to-
day. In business life, he said, he wan
assistant and confidential man for
Ambrose Mcneil of New York, who,
it has been testified was a heavy con-
trlbutor to the Wood campaign fund.
Brought Papers.
Mr.. Burt said he had brought. pa
pers from the Wood national COM
n'ittee, and produced a suit case and
two bundles, from which he took q
Sc: of formidable looking ledgcrs
The committee discussed the showing
of the various accounts with him..
Mr.. Burt said one of the volumes
contained all the requests for funds
filed with the national Wood COM
mittee by the state and district man
ayers and notation of the action
taken. Complying with an Indiana
state law, General Woods name was
signed to the orders filed by the com
mittee in that state. but the witness
explained that the initials "R. T." un-
der the generals name meant that
the actual signator was Robert Tyler.
formally selected as agent for the
general in Indiana.
Mr.. Burtt said $4,000 had been
spent in Indiana. but explained other
testimony on the state expenditures
by saying that unpaid bills would
bring the Indiana total to $5s, 900.
I'm order to carry out your work
in businesslike way Chairman
KenyaR obserQed your. committee
blank form headed requests for
funds"
| Chairman kenyon turned to q
received from William Loeb
March 49,. 1920, s25,0oo," he read,
The witness said he was not in
formed. Mr.. Loeb. has been mem
LlOneO IN previous LeSLinUuy as hay
ing transmitted S22s,oeo from a
Wood committee in New York,
would Extend Inquiry.
'i'-~-& Tire seua&o lsassselall1 11E.aeAaY by =
| senator Pomerene, DesmOcFAt.
| Ohio, to authorize the comnlit-
tee investigating pfe-contention
political financing to extend it's
senatorial campaign which wfll
end with the elections In Novem-
her.
There will be FIVE and possibly six
seconding speeches following the
nomination of General Wood by Gov
ernor Allen of Kansas, but none more
than five or six minutes in length ac-
cording to a. statement by General
Wood at his daily conference with
newspaper men today. ss.
/ Former Governor Runyan of. New
Jersey will deliver a, secondinS
speech said General Wood. ut is
probable that men from Ohio, Col
will also second Governor Aliens
speech. There will be five and possi-
| bly, six of them but their speeches
will be short
Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash
ington will arrive tomorrow. thus
bringing the total numoer OF an
nounced candidates here at that time
!up to five, Governor Lowden and
General Wood having been in town
several days and Senator johnson
and Senator Harding being due to-
day.
Request Goes Over.
Senator Pomerene's request was In
I the form of a resolution which went
over until tomorrow at the request Of
! Senator Lodge of MASSACHUSETTS. the
Republican leader.
The resolution would direct the
committee to investigate after the
adjournment OF the Democratic ma
tional convention and before the No
vember elections. 1920, the receipts
and expenditures OF the several poli-
teal committees and the receipts and
expenditures of the campaigns con-
Quoted by, and on behalf Of. or
against, the election of the several
candidates for president and vice
president and the United States sen-
ate 80 And make report Of their
proceedings to the senate not later
than the first Monday in December,
1920.
Senator Pomerene is a member OF
the present investigating committees.