Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-02
CHECKS FOR S40,OO0
 FOR L0WDEN WERE
 SENT INTO MISSOURI
Some of Money Still Being Held Pending His NOm-
 inatiOn
SAY PART USED IN
 GETTING OUT WORKERS
Committee Also Seeks Further Light on the Expenditures of General Wood and Senator Harding
 Missouri storm Center

 Washington, June i. Checks az grcgatiug $lo,0O0 sent into Missouri by the managers of Governor Low dens campaign, were presented today to the senate committee Investigating the pre- convention expenditures of presidential candidates. The checks were laid before the committee by Arthur Davis of Harrisburg. Illinois, by direction of l.. l.. Emmerson, na- tional manager of Governor Lowdcn's campaign.
 While most of today was devoted to questioning witnesses as to eXpen- ditures of sums covered by the checks, primary contests in other states were boucher upon. The com mlttec sought further information on the campaign of Ma or General Leon ard Wood, in Michigan and Indiana, and the contest between General Wood and Senator Harding in Ohio.
 In it's inquiry into the Lowden cam palgn in Missouri, the committee questioned Nat Goldstein, clerk of the eighth judicial district of St. Louis, and his deputy, Robert F. Moore, del egatc to the republican national con Vention from Missouri, who itsetifr vention from Missouri, who testified that they each had received check for $2, 800 from the Lowden campaign fund. Both said the money was held to their account in banks and would be returnd unless Governor Lowden were nominated, in which event it would be used in the campaign.
 J. B. Babler. national committee man from Missouri, whom GoIdstein and Moore delegated as the one who transmitted the contracts to them from MT Emmerson, also was aues- tioned by the committee. F.. l.. Morse head of the Lowden organization out side of St. Louis, another Missouriaii examined by the committee, testi- flied he had received checks from MT Emmerson approximaping $32 900 and expended 1t in getting out the work fcrs"
 Babler got l7,000 of these funds he said to reimburse him for similar expenditures
 Both Moore and Goldstein testified to having received the checks from Babler in the latters office with no specific instructions as to how the money should be used. Both said they had declared no money was nec- essary in their congressional districts ana that none was spent to get out Lowden sentiment in the ward meets lngs and district conventions. Moore said Babler had told him Jaw go ahead and take it" when he had hesItated about accepting a check from Emerson.
 Babler was pressed on this point by Chairman Kenyon when he ap- peared later.
 "Was it a pretty hard job to get Moore and Goldstein to take this money?' the senator asked.
 Well, l was very anxious about the St. Louis situation" Babler replied. "I wanted to tie them up and urged Emerson to assist in any way neces- sary to get their active support
 Workers for Money.
 Morse and Babler gave lists of state workers to whom they had dis- tributed the money received from Elm erson. The amounts ranged as rule from $100 to $500, but in some in- stances went over 1000. Babler, ex- blaming larger items, said they went to men who had hard fights ahead of them in their districts. No account- ing of expenditures was asked by either Morst or Babler, they testi- fled.
 Boiling all this down." Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri said to Babler, 9dosen't it come to this: that the method of campaign you adopted was to get in touch with active work- CTS for some money and tell them to get busy?"
 Babler agreed.
 The witness was asked if others re- ceiving money were delegates. Morse said three men on list were including William K. Cole, who is delegate at large. The witness said he had given him $500 for headquarters pur- poses.
 Senator Kenyon promptly called at tention to the fact that previous tes- timony before the committee showed Cole had received $1 ,250 to sound out the sentiment for Harding. Morse and Babler said they had understood Cole was for Lowden with Senator Harding "perhaps as second choice."
 Here is delegate at large. with $1,250 Harding money and $500 Low den money" said Senator KKenyorl. "Who is third choice?" the committee ordered Cole subpoenaed. Publisher Testifies.
 Additional information as to the Wood campaign in Michigan was pre- scented by Fred M. Alger of Detroit. who said he had personally contrib uted $50,000 of the s54,000 Wood fund raised and expended in the state and already in the committees record He also had expended personally, he ad- ded, $2,000 or $23,000 for Wood in the state primary election. Of his total expenditures of more than $70, 900 he said:
 T was proud to do it. would do it again."
 Alger said he had first intended to seek subscriptions, but when the first unjust" talk of a asuppositious" fi-s nancial ring behindEWood's candidacy came up, had decided to put the, motl-I ey up himself. He said he expecteds no returns from his expenditures which were for publicity. 1 Frederick A. Joss of lndianapQliS bo ba 1lv aakaf} kr1.