New Britain herald., 1920-09-10
UPHAM RELATES HOW
 LIMIT WAS REDUCED
National Committee Objected to Permitting StO,OOO Donations
INSISTS FORM tOt IS DEAD
Republican Campaign Money Raiser Thinks Dcmocrnts wiii Eventually
 Approve and Adopt Hts system
 Proud of His Work.


 Proud Of His Work. CbicaEo. Sept. i0.-Fred ". Upham today told tho senate committee in- vestigating campaign funds that he took full responsibility for the pro- posal to raise tho limit of republican campaign contributions to st0,00O from Si.000.
 ''I was voted down by a large ma 1ority at meeting in New York he lsaid.
 \ He said Form Ioi. the so-called Jslair plan, was brought about by his {mdvocacy of larger contribution SlimiS and was prepared after he had hold Harry M. Blair his assistant that he believed the Sl0,0o0 figure would ho adopted after the national con- rntion had ended.
 Form iot Voted Down.
 "I hoped the lid would he raised snd did recommend s1O.0OO as a limit said Mir. Upham. ''I present rd thlH proposition at meeting In New Yorl. attended by Win Hays, shs rles Hollis, Alvin T. Hert of Ken lucky: William Daughorty of Ohio md Col William Boyce Thompson bf Nav York.
 HWY NpA3u TlF ubNH b1 " blR tority and I stepped from tho room md told MT. Blair to telegraph his non-4n Chicago not to send out Form Oi."
 TWO days later." continued Mir. pham. "Col. Thompson went to hvsshington and saw Senator Harding hnd the candidate gave out stnte- 3anent to The Associated Press that he Shnd instructed tho republican nation nl committee not to accept contribu- Ions of more than st.000 each. prom psinE that if any change was made Sn tho plan. the public would be noti- led before It was put into effect"
 Mir. Tpham sald he did not write Form 10t nnd that If contained somc kprcsaious and ideas which he would pt have approved.
 "But Form lot was and Is dead" added. 'Turthermorc. tho substl- ffa Worm 10: was not presented Rt Inc luncheon In the Tower room of he Union League club in Chicago, rd | was there throughout that con renee
 VI never Hnw a quota list for cities r any other quota list except that pr states prepared In my office." aaid fr. Upham.
 ''Yop assume rcsponsibility for tho psalm sinRers''? asked Senator rom-- rene.
 Proud of His Work.
 "I do. and am proud of the work ny cx-Y, NJ. C. \. campaiRners are oinE." said MT. rpham. "t believe pat on the showing here of results could. aA a business man. get tho eb Of raising the democratic cam aign fund. and when they reorgnnize heir finances think they will adopt ur system."
 Mr. Upham presented figures on fe-convention receipts and cxpcndi- fres. hla previous testimony being united to the period after the na- bnal convention. Today'S testimony bowed expenditures Of more than 100000 for publicity. headqun rters nd other national committee ex- snsot between December |. 1918. and ily i2 of this year.
 'Thcre was no campaign on in that hriod." AuRRcstcd senator Kenyon.
 "Thore' Ia always a campaign on hore VIII Hays Is in charge" said r. upham. "An hour after he was ected republican national chairman
 tsiephoned mo by long distance Sd asked mo to try and raise some oncr.
 A Chautauqua Bureau.
 Mir. Upham testified that part or . prc-convention expense was for ~akcrs to preach republican doe Ines at Chautauquaa. He said the publican national committee had n ,hautauqua bureau under Dr. iiS and that tho salaries and eN- nses of the speakers were paid for [ of the national treasury.
 'Sonio prominent dcmocrnts havs pearcd on tho Chautauqun-- plat |rm.' suggested Senator Kenyon.
 'Yer. but not as hired men of th. 'tianul committed" reJoincd Senator bmercnc.
 The chairman then brought out at Mr. Tpham understood that ere wore democratic deys" at tho nautauquas where tho republican ircnu men were sent