Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-01

the tuna nau Deen uSeQ Tor the state
and national campaigns.
1t developed that $4,000 of the
tional committee.
Smith could not give the names of
contributors to the $50 900 state fund
other than the candidates for office.
lie said there was treasurer but
he is not active. He said that the
money had been spent lin the usual
way; for speakers and the like"
More than $4,000 has been spent
for publicity, literature and adver-
Using, Smith said.
Keeps No Books
Questioned by Untermyer, the wit
ness said the state committee kept
no books.
$50 there's no way of telling how
much money has been received or
expended IN detail?" Untermyer said.
yes" Smith said, "a bank account
was kept
Samuel Untermyer, New York, law
yer, and a supporter of John w.
Davis. objected and he and kirkland
had several sharp tilts with result
that Chairman BOrah said the com
mittee might have to conduct the in
olIiry independently of counsel Sen
ator Borah took over the eXamlna-
ton.
Sheppard said his organization had
been active in politics for some time,
supporting candidates for congress
and state offices. He cited that it
had been behind a Republican candl-
date for senator in Nebraska and
Democratic candidate for governor.
More light on expenditures on be-
half of the La Toilette Wheeler ma
tionaI ticket as we'll as on behalf OF
the Coolidge Dawes slate, was sought
bv the Chicago section.
"D) YOU know of any 'slush fund
70 he used in Illinois?" asked Kirk
land.
81 do not"
"Were there any large contribu-
tons such as $25,00O?"
mo"
Val J. Peter, a publisher OF Ger
man language newspapers in Omaha
and other Nebras ska cities, said he
had entered into IAN arrangement
with the Republican national COM
mittee to distribute his papers
among the German speaking popu-
lation in Iowa, Minnesota and South
Dakota, where there are no Repub-
lican German language papers.
Peter said he was to send out 2OO,-
600 copies and had received $4,000
from the Republican committee and
that $500 more is due.
"Who furnished the material for
these publications?' asked Senator
Borah.
"Most Of it I furnished; the Re-
publican national committee fur
nished some
Paper Switched Over
Untermyer brought out that a pa
per called The Midwest which is
printed at Peters Omaha shop, was
a La Toilette supporter until Peter
visited Roy West, secretary of the
Republican national committee early
in August. Then it became sup
porter of Coolidge.
Mr. I.ochray, publisher Of The
Mid-W est was indebted to you"'
asked Untermyer
Yes"
He owed you $500 and was
about to quit publication"
HE owed me 81, 500 but he did not
say he was about to quit publish
ing"
Peter told Of seeing Lochray in
Chicago in an effort, he said, to col.
lect his money.
1T was after that conference that
the Midwest began to support Cool.
idge"
Did you get your money!" asked
Untermyer.
mo"
Have you got 1t YETI"
mo"
"You are still printing his paper?"
Eyes"
did you say anything to him
about the paper Hopping to Cool
idge?''
Il did not. l could not control the
policy of his paper"
Peter said Lochray had paid him
some money for printing the paper
since that time.
L. e. Sheppard, president Of the
Order of Railway Conductors, and
Warren S. Stone, president of TIE
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi.
neers. and John NJ. Nelson, national
director of the La Toilette campaign,
were among those from whom the
subcommittee sought information
about sums spent in the Independent
presidential campaign.
William NJ. Butler, chairman of
the Republican national committee,
Frank l.. smith, Republican state
chairman for Illinois, and George
Barr Baker, director Of the Repub.
Hcan committeeS publicity bureau
were on hand for questioning re-
Sarding the financing of the Cool
Idge-Dawes campaign. Also the sub
committee sought details as to
moneys returned to or sent into
states by the Republican national
committee to aid in state and sena-
torial and congressional campaigns.
William V. Hodges, treasurer Of
the Republican national committee,
and the first witness at the open
ing Of the hearings in Chicago yes
terday, had promised to supply
these figures. He testified that col
lections by the national committee
up to October % had been $780,
600, Of which $3.50, 900 had been re.
turned to the contributing states.
A protracted wrangle between
counsel over "insinuations and in
nuendoes' involving the relation
ships between Hodges and the Hol-
ly Sugar company, for which he
was counsel before the tariff com
mission in the sugar hearings prior
to his connections with the Repub-
l1can national committee, blazed into
sharp repartee in the final minutes
of the hearing yesterday, leading
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho
the chairm~l, to suggest a referee
might be needed for today's session.
Samuel Untermyer, supporter of
John w. Davis, but associated with
Frank P. Walsh, counsel for La Fol.
Iette, questioned Hodges vigorously
as to his present interest in the
sugar industry, abiding in his inter