The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-08
HOT CLASH OCCURS BETWEEN MOORE,
 AND QUEST|ONER
Cox's Representative Starts to Leave Stand When QueS- tioner Intimates That Let
 ter Was Forgery
By Associated Press

By Associated Press Chicago September 7.-Edmond H.
 Moore, as personal representative of
 Governor Cox, today presented to the Senate committee Investigating cam
 paign expenditures, part of the docu
 ments and information upon which the
 democratic presidential candidate based
 his charges of a republican plan to !. raise a campaign fund of s15,000,000.
 The testimony was not finished, but it's presentation caused a stormy session of the committed.
 Senatorial traditions as to courtesy
 were strained to the breaking point on several occasions, as republican and
 democratic members wrangled over the value of the evidence and at one
 stage. just before adjournment. MT. Moore started to leave the stand, eH- claiming that Senator Spencer, repub- hcan, Missouri. had intimated forgery by questioning the authenticity of a 1 circular letter which he had offered as furnishing lead to further informa- tion.
 No man, even though he be a United 1 states senator, can make such a charge as that against me- said MT. Moore. DISGRACEFUL, SAYS REED Senator Spencer's disclaimer of such charge brought his democratic col league, Senator Reed, to his feet with protest against bully ragging." He said the entire incident was disgrace : fur' and announced that he proposed 1 to see that the witness was treated IA Ike a gentleman.
 II The exchange was the climax to sew .1 Chairman Kenyons plaint that he 1eould not keep peace fin Missouri . set we'd to settle the atmosphere. l don't want peace; am preparing fof war" pronounced Senator Reed considerable of Mir: Moore's late ss timony consisted of informa tion cleaned from telegrams received from 1e elocratic state chairmen in western Sta tes. He told Senator Kenyon he had sent for some of this information and | that other parts of it had been volun- ge ,ed.
 Don't you expect to give us other Is besides teleArams from democra-
 4ig state chairmen?" asked Senator
 Sesyon.
 glr. Moore said the messages were Y nded merely to suggest avenues of iiry and he said the paid employees he republican national committee" ht to be able to furnish the com n zee with the facts.
 The object is to get those men on u stand here and if they lie. prose ! | them," declared MT. Moore. You must expect to keep the at- ff ney general busy" suggested Sena- |hi { Kenyon.
 SHOULD PUNISH GUILTY
 "Of course, if perjury is committed before this committee. the guilty should be punished."
 Senator Kenyon continued that in
 newspaper interviews MT. Moore had criticized the work of the committee and added:
 Governor Cox wired Senator Reed
 that he would produce the evidence and
 leads to support his charges. But through you he sends none of this evidence and you start line of evidence which it
 would take us year to run down.
 Senator" replied MT. Moore. Govern
 or Cox had the official bulletins of the
 republican committee showing that cer-
 tain quotas existed and that widespread plans were being carried out to collect
 them Yet,.-the republican witnesses get
 on the stand here and tell us these bull
 letns were only bull" Then he had a
 copy of it that he had every reason to
 believe was true quota list. The day
 before the list was published the re- publcans said there were only four copies of 1t in existence. Now they tes- tify that the list never existed. It is the same way with form 10l and we
 believe we have got to get this evidence if the committee really wants it.
 OTHERS GIVE TESTIMONY
 Besides Mir. Moore, there was testimony ! today also by Walter s. Dekey of Kan ! sas City and Charles McNder of Mason City, Iowa, chairmen of the republican
 ways and means committees for their
 states, and by A. B. Paxton of Wheeling,
 who holds similar position for Ohio
 county. West Virginia. From ~Messrs.
 Dickey and McNider the committea
 learned of the plans to raise money in
 those states. Missouri's share of the na
 tional republican fund being given at s9o,
 GOO and Iowas as s75,O00. Mr. McNider
 said that on his own initiative he set
 the Iowa goal at s20o,0oO believing that
 the figure asked by the national commit
 tee was too low to cover state. congress
 sional district and national ticket needs
 in his state. He said s520OO had been
 raised. Mir. Moore told the committee he
 thought this testimony tended to SUD-
 pert the democratic charge that the S.
 OO0,000 budget of the republican national committe was only small part of the total that the party proposed to raise Mir. Paxton's testimony was to the effect that he had raised s4 2S5 from for ty-one contributors and that James M Saunders had raised $3910 more in the county When he said that was all he
 had to offer. Senator Kenyon indicated N he had been subpoenaed at the request of democratic members of the committee and thought requiring journey of 55( miles for such testimony was rank in. I justice.