The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-24
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-(GOnCAnu3h lFpm Dake 4uS New Jersey, Illorois and Ohio be called for questionins ah to whethe5 there have been sAeRcealed" eantri Autions from big business men. Samuel Inter myer said he regarded it as igrificant that there wa missing from the rer' publican list of cotitrihatrr l<Such names as those of Ebert TI,-5;dry. of the United States Sfe;i-- Sffe;c4i Corporation, J. P. Morgan, the RSckefellers and the heads of staH.dassEss1 a.dasEs1 Oil companies. all ot WhoIR,sh he asserted, are well known as T2Sublicans.
 Before the committee finished it's days labors it received from Fred N. Shepherd, executive manager of the American Bankers association, further denial of the charges that there was suggested at recent meeting of that association that the member banks con tribute amounts equivalent to certain percentages of their capital to a fund to fight Senator La Toilette in west ern states.
 It was established, however, that the La Toilette candidacy had been assalled at the convention and that the assocla- tion had departed from its usual' pol icy against taking part in partisan pol itics by adopting a resolution asserting that particularly large and dangerous element of economic fallacy has been in- iected into the present national polit- ical campaign"
 Business Committees Busy i Evidence regarding the extent of the republican campaign collection organ ization was presented by Charles D. Hilles of New York, a vice chairman of the republican national committee. He testified that from fifty to sixty committees within businesses and pro fessions had been organized in New York City alone. Their membership is from 800 to 600 and all were organized, he added, under the direction of Guy D. Emerson, chairman of the con triubtors' committee. Other places in the country are not so well organized, he said.
 Thus far about $S5O,OOO of the S1,O0O,O0O which the republican ma tional committee has asked be raised in New York state is in hand, MT. Hilles told the committees. He said he had personally collected Large sums, in cluding $15,OO0 from Mortimer l. Schiff, and $1OO00 from William Nel son Cromwell, New York lawyer Cromwell gave an additional $2,5O0 the record shows.
 The former chairman of the repub. lican national committee was subjected to q gruelling cross examination by special counsel for Senator La Toilette whose charge that a large republican "slush" fund is being raised to swing doubtful states is the particular sub | feet now under inquiry.
 Both Frank r. Walsh and Mir. Un termyer sought to develop that the buli of the republican funds came from mer in those industries protected by tho republican tariff, but Mir. Hilles in sisted that persons in all lines of en deavor were given opportunity to con tribute and that the fund had come iron some 3OO00 persons.
 "The money comes from the country generally" he said. "Much more sC than it did in the old days"
 In this connection Mir. Untermyel submitted an analysis of the report O the republican national committee or contributions to last October 10 showing that .$1. .1O9. 793 of the total collections of $1,714,373 had come from 470 con tributors. Before Mir. Hilles was ex cused he was led into long discussion of the advantages held by the pOlitica party having the largest campaign funC and the necessity for collecting large amounts in national elections. He ex pressed the opinion that John w., Davis would get no additional votes by reason of the funds expended by his campaign organizations, but did say that ho thought the expenditures by the republi can committee probably would result il increasing President Coolidge's cleo tOraI votes.
 II think the President could be elect ed by the expenditure of about $1 ,OOO, 000," Hilles said during the discussion
 "Then how do you justify the raising of such large sums?' Untermyer asked
 ''I don't know that I should have tt justify it," Hilles replied, after a Ion, pause.
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