Arizona republican., 1920-06-03
CHARGE LIQUOR
 BARS LET DOWN
 IN PA. PRIMARY
Attorney General Palmer Is Accused of Misuse of Fed eral Power in Fiery De- bate with Philadelphian at Senate Probe of Pre- Conventic-4 Expenses
[Repda!iaan A. p. Leas

WASHINGTON. june 2-CP5
 Associated Press)-A fiery. cross te bss, verbal battle between Attorney General Philadelphia, bristling with direct charges of the misuse of federal power to let down the liquor bars during the Pennsylvania presidential primaries on the one hand and of attempted "char- acter assassination on the other. marked senate investigation today of pre- convention campaign expenditures.
 The attorney general appeared un- expectedly in the committee room dur ing the luncheon recess after MT. Bon niWell had launched a broadside of charges, including a sweeping asser- ton that the whole Palmer campaign in Pennsylvania had been a "ghastly and debasing degradation of law" MT. Bonniwell was recalled to the stand to finish his testimony and Mir. Palmer, the first candidate for a presidential nomination to appear at the inquiry, took a seat across the table from the witness who. it was brought out, was q political enemy of long standing.
 Palmer Belittles Accuser
 News of the impending verbal clash before the committee spread rapidly and the hearing room soon was crowd ed. When M-. Bonniweu concluded MT. Palmer replied, opening his state ment with the charge that MT. Bonni- well had employed character assassination" methods against him in Pennsylvania for years, and conelud- ing it with the assertion that in Penn sylvania. Judge Bonniwe1Ps word is not evidence of fact"
 Echoes of the combat had hardly died away before a new element was injected into the committees delibera- tions with the fiat refusal of Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, to at tend further sessions. In announcing that he had notified the chairman of the full committee and the sub com mittee of his decision, the senator said he believed approximate figures on all pre- convention expenditures had been obtained and that further inquiry would result only in the airing of charges, counter charges, intimations and in- situations" He added that no federal law had been broken as there was no federal presidential primary law to break
 Before MT. Palmer appeared in the committee room. the committee had inquired into the activities of Plumb plan league, made further efforst to run down a presidential campaign for w. G. McAdoo and had heard two of ficials of oil companies who had been mentioned in previous testimony as possible large contributors to political campaigns.
 Deny Part In Any Campaign
 Edward Heating, manager of the Plumb plan league, declared the league had taken no part in any pre- convention political activity had not contributed any money and did not plan to participate in the convention struggles He added. however, that it did seek to defeat members of con gress who voted for the Transportation act
 Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Illinois, ac- tive in Liberty loan drives and later for the Democratic national commit tee, declared positively that no cam paign for obtaining the Democratic presidential nomination for McAdoo, direct or indirect, existed, much to her regret"
 H. F. Sinclair. New York, of the oil company bearing his name. declared he had made no campaign contribu- tions or been otherwise active polit- ically and Norman Briggs, connected with the Doheny oil interests. testified that he had contributed s1,o00 to Gen eral Woods candidacy but otherwise knew nothing of any campaign.