New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
10 Million Total
Campaign Cost
TO Two Parties
gepublicans Spent s8,lO0.-
739 and Democrats So.
237.770. Says the Senate
Report on Investigation
Corrective Laws Urged
Menace to Nation Seen i'm the
Use of Vast Sums; Change
in Constitution Advised
From TIE TT bune's Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON. March 1.-Expendi-
sures Of the two g~eat political parties
through their national organizations,
including expenditures Of state com
ro;ttees in the recent campaign were
-ore than SO 250o00. according to
T. statement made to the Senate to-day
hv Senator Kenyon in report from
.he Committee on Privileges and Elec-
t1ons. The report IS that OF the sub
committee Of the Privileges and Elec-
,;ons Committee. which investigated
eerrai ign contributions last snring and
..rourh tire summer ard fall The
subcommittee report was made to
The NAN committee, indorsed by that
committee and then presented 10 the
Senate by Senator Kenyon, who was
chairman Of The subcommittee 10 con-
auct the campaign fund inquiry
The comr' ittce finds the expenditures
r. such va surrs recent and grow
ing menace TO L ? nation" 1t recon-
mends that legisl alton be devised to
meet il and. i r r0cessary. that a consti-
tutionsl amendment be proposed
The exact total OF TIE expenditures,
the committee report shows, was $10,-
32S.509 90. OF this amount, the Repub-
iican party expended $500. 1921 and
the Democratic party s2237, 1904.
Mention is made Of the deficits, but
the figures therefor are not dealt with
IN the report. The committee, after
mentioning the expenditures says:
"The fun~s collected, of course. were
not used exclusively in the Presidential
campainl They were used likewise in
the electi.n Of Senators and Congress-
men and state officials
"The resolutions under which the
committee has acted do not provide for
recomm andations to the Senate on the
part of the committee. Naturally. the
nsrirtee has discussed remedies to
limit the amount OF camsaign expendi-
turcs FOR they feel that the expendi-
ture u these vast sums is present
and growing menace TO the nation. We
recognize there are constitutional diff
culties involved in the passage of laws
70 regulate eXnenGir, res in Presideu
til camps Ers let are Of the opinion
that the Committee OF Privileges and
Elections Of the Senate should in the
mex Congress take W the question OF
remedial legislation
Inc comm lee cues the lNCt INaL lIe
evidence comprises twenty-five volumes.
The report treats net onlv - rhe ev-
pencitures of the Two parties, but also
Of the expenditure Of cai4o4da.e, II
tie 9re-conventicn contests. Inquiries
were ma7e With reference % ninetee1
candidates. As TO what they expended,
the rep.rt SAYS:
IN certain irs.9- rcs the financial
iaterlocking arrangements Of the vari-
ous organizations II tha interest Of z
card da-e were of such nature skat
It is difficult 70 arrive at specified
sun as representing the total funds
used The following compilation. how
ever. based both upon The testimony
taken and at examination Of the anan-
oial statements of receipts and expen-
disures. as furnished the comm i-tee, is.
in our Judgment, a fair sratenlent Of
the approximate am unts of the cam
pa;rn funds used in the interest Of
eaca candidate as found hy the co.n-
me the list is alphabetically az
ranged"
The list is gwen as follows:
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