The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
HAS ONLY BEGUN, , SAYS POMERENE, OF SLUSH FUND PROBE
Rival Party Men Spend Hours Trying to Score Points of Disadvantage to
 Their Cause
By CLINTON W. GILBERT


 of . s1a.00O,OOO republican corrup-
 ton fund was brought here today
 by Judge Edmond II. Moore, the
 democratic nOminee's personal
 friend and former campaign man
 ager. the Senate committee inves-
 Heating election funds adjourned
 without hearing the Ohioan.
 The proof, whatever it is, will
 have to wait until next Tuesday.
 when the committee will resume
 its session to hear Mir. Moore and
 others. MT. Moore attended the
 hearing today, ana was requested
 to return on Tuesday with his ev-
 idence.
 Mr. Moore, acting as Governor Cox's representative, declared today that he is ready to prove that the republican chieftains announced last January their intention of raising campaign fund of $16,000,000. He declared they have changed Lincoln's aphorism from "a government by the people" to govern ment buy the people"
 The recess was taken to allow com nittee members to fulfill Engagements on Saturday and Labor Day. The dem ocratic managers here today held conference upon the evidence brought
 
 plans regarding it's use National Chairman White and National Treas urer Marsh were with Judge Moore all morning.
 Senator Pomerene who returned to Chicago with Judge Moore, attended the session of the committee today.
 HAS ONLY BEGUN
 When asked regarding the time re- quired to investigate the Cox charges MT. Pomerene said: This thing has only begun"
 Senator Reed, in examining Senator Poindexter today, made similar sug- gestion, as to the importance of the ev- idence brought here by Judge Moore He said: We shall have the evidence as to who has got the money.
 The plans of Judge Moore and Sem ator Pomerene with regard to the in- troduction of this evidence have not been disclosed. Senator Pomerene said that it has been the intention of Governor Cox to use his remaining evi- dence in a speech before presenting 1t to the committee, and that plan may still be carried out
 The committee during it's session to- day, which ended shortly after noon, estisated subordinate matters. Sem ator Poindexter, chairman of the re- publican senatorial committee, was ex- amined in regard to the plans of this committee to raise and expend $200,0o0 upon the election of republican 'sena- tors.
 Mr. Poindexter said that he appoint ed a subcommitteee, of which Senator Frelinghuysen was chairman, to col Iect the fund and that this subcommit- tee was being aided by an auxiliary committee of which Elliot H. Wads- worth is head. He said that $2o0.0O0 was reasonable amount for the sem atorial campaign.
 REED QUIZZES POINDExTER
 Senator Reed devoted considerable time in trying to prove that senator Poindexter's committee would expend more than $10,000 in some states for the purpose of electing republican sem ators. The corrupt practices act for bids the expenditure of more than $10.- 900 in the interest of any one candidate for the Senate. MT. Reed brought out from Senator Poindexter that the gem eral expenses of the committee would not exceed $34,000. This would leave of the s200.o00 fund $166,000 for ex- penditure in the states Senator Poin- dexter testified that there were six teen or eighteen doubtful states Tn which this money would be spent.
 This would make an average of at least $9,0O0 per state if 1t were dis tributed evenly, but Senator Poindex- ter said that more would be spent in some states than in others. senator Reed said: "The pivotal state might get $4o,D00 or $5o,oo0."
 { .No they won't get that much" said Senator Poindexter.
 FOR MINOR ADVANTAGE
 The Keryon inv vestigating committee is row running into the minor details of campaign expenditures. The Senators of both parties have been fighting for hours at time to fasten some minor damaging fact upon the opponents
 AlI< the essential facts. except those which Governor Cox is said to possess have now been brought out in evidence. Nothing sensational has been disclosed. The republican campaign fund is evil cently going to be about what everyone expected it would be. The democratic. campaign fund is going to be much smaller which is nothing unusual The lists of subscribers of both parties to date disclose nothing which can be made an issue in the campaign. The democratic managers profess to find sinister influ- emces only in MT. Barnes list of sub ncribers For the sake of Governor Cox's charges they must find sinister influences somewhere and they do it in this way.
 MT Wilbur Marsh. treasurer of the democratic national committee, shakes
  that Mir Barnes subscribers were ii vided into two groups. one group ag6e- ing to contribute to his book, and the other pledging their moral and financial support to propaganda conducted by MT Barnes.
 Both pledges are printed under the same heading which refers to MT. Barnes book and to an ordinary eye it looks as if both mean the same thing that the subscribers would come throughly handsomely in support Of MT. Barnes publication. But Mir. Marsh wiu not have it 20. He is sure that the general pledge tp sup port propaganda under the direction of MT Barnes refers to some vast unnamed effort by the Albany politician to influ- ence the public mind In this list ct subscribers to the propaganda are some corporations Now, according to Mir Marsh it is sinister thing for corpor- ation to give money for propagapda oy MT Barnes, but not for it to give money to the publication of hook hv him.
 BARNES THRIFTY WORK
 As matter of fact, the Barnes pub lication looks to unprejudced eyes like to make bit of money for himself out of the national campaign. Mfr Barnes has been figure of some prominence in the republican party, notably in the na- tional convention of 1912 but he is one no longer A great many men of wealth have probably been quite willing to see MT. Barnes profit by the political oppor tunities of this year, by means or very