New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10

told my look 10 better than my word,'
was the enigmatic reply.
When the witness declared he did
not know the quotas Of the vaKioua
towns he visited, 2aSenator. Reed iRssI-
Gated that he had no more questions. ~
Senator Spencer brought out the age
Of the system for collecting Repub-
Hcan funds and Senator Pomerene took
up the examination. Mr.. Owens greeted
the new questioner as q fellow Ohioan
and told him that Mr.. Kelly's scheme
Of doubling the Ohio county quotas
had not been followed in Kentucky,
Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Don't you think they rather bun
coed the people of our state BY
doubling, their quotas?" smilingly .it-
CURED Senator Pomerene.
"Ohio ,buncoed the country by get
ting all the candidates for President, !"
interposed Senator Kenyon. ~ :
Michigan Quota S350,0ea - -
r. x. Thompson, Cincinnati news
paper man. who is Republican financial
director fog Illinois, and Carl D.
Fritsche, executive secretary of the
Michigan waye and means committee,
testified at the night session.. Mr..
Fritsche said the: Michigan quota was
$250,000 for the Republican National
Committee and 100000 for state pur-
poses. In dividing the quota among
the Congressional districts the figures
were boosted. he said, on the theory
that 1t was necessary to ask for more
than be expected to get. He asked for
1888, 400 to get $250,000 for the national
committee.
another case of expanded truth"
Senator Pomerene remarked.
Nv Eus& 1O1
900 in Wayne, County, including the
had been raised up to tast Saturday
night. In The entire state, Including
Wayne County, cash collected and un.
paid pledges total $17O,O83.6b.:, Bay
County, with aaqueta Of $4,000, was
asked to raise $4,000, Mr.. Fritsche
said. Eleven thousand dollars was cash
and the rest pledges. Other, counties
which have raised their quotas, are
Luce, Baraga, Ionia, Cass, Dickersor.,
Schoolcraft and Menominee. -.
Mr.. Fritsche said he had received
seventy-one contributions of $1,000
each and, at the other extreme, 1856 of
81 each. No contributions of more
than 81 900 have been accepted, he said.
Senator Kenyon asked why so much
money was needed in the Michigan
campaign, as there is no Senatorial
election.
Mr.. Fritsehe said the cost of cam
paigning. in Michigan would be very
ty meeting at Battle Creek. The opera
house rental for one night was $75, he
said; the band cost 500, decorations
$50 and the speakers travelling ex-
penses 800. He pointed out that it
would cost $4,000 to hold one meet
ing in each county in the state.
Mr.. Blair was cross-exanined by
Senator Reed, who read from a docu-
ment produced by Mr.. Blair and which
Mr.. Blair said was a substitute for
Form 101. Mr.. Reed asked the wit
ness if the local chairman appointed
in each of the Sd cities where there
were to be drives was to accept the
quota placed upon the city by the
national treasurer"
"But he never did that to my knowl-
edge" Mr.. Blair interjected. He !ex-
planned that the plan Gin his mind"
was for the state chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee to select
local chairmen in cities, who then
would be confirmed by Mr.. Upham "to
make it Official" and that Mr.. Upham
should pass on to the local chairman
city. quota suggested by the state
head.
His testimony at many points showed
that the ideas which he had in his
mind were rejected by his superiors
when placed on paper, which was the
fate of Form 101.
Mr.. Blair produced a copy of that
form and when it was compared with the
copy of the same form which Governor
Cox had sent to the committee by Ed
mund Moore, his personal representa-
ave. the Governors copy was found to
be incomplete. An entire paragraph,
which appeared in Mr.. Blair's copy, was
omitted from that sent by the Gov
ernor. The paragraph suggested that
Of $4,000 and $4,000 be
accepted, removing the $1,000 limit
fixed by Chsirman Hays. The copy
furnished by the Governor merely sug-'
gested that contributions of "from
5000 upward be received"
Mr.. Blair turned over to the COM
mittee the original and final quota