The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
FEDERAL POSITIONS
 WERE AT STAKE
Coolidge NOn-PartiZan Club Pays Cost Of
 Actors Party
REPUBLICAN FUND
 REACHES 3,5O0,0O0
Chicago Sub Committee Hears Further Report From Hodges,
 National Treasurer
(By Associated PreSs.)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.- Acting Chairman Caraway in- troduced into records of the senate committee Investigating campaign funds late to- day an affidavit of James L. Smith of Fairfield county, South Carolina, claiming he failed to get a job as rural mail carrier in Winnisboro, s. C., because he refused to pay any money for it to Elliott Boulware, negro county chair man of the Republican party in Fairfield county.
 Smith declared in the affi- davit that although he stood first on the list of eligibles and had received information that he had actually received the appointment, it was given to another man when he turned down Boulware's request for money.
 A vast and tangled network of pol itical byways was explored today by the Washington section of the Senate committee.
 Focusing its efforts mainly on the methods of the republican campaign or- ganization, the committee followed through an all-day session a long trail of charges of denials, swinging from the famous republican campaign fund letter distributed in Massachusetts to the parcelling out of federal patronage in South Carolina, and touching on re- puted efforts to line up the support of the negro, the laborer and the theater.
 Probe Third Party
 The committee also sought to delve momentarily into the inside story of the La Toilette campaign and was told that one campaign collector had received about $120,OO0 among trade unions, mostly in small amounts not covered by previous collection reports placed before the committee by La Fol. lette managers.
 Late today E. J. Bliss, president of the Regal Shoe company, was uues. tioned regarding newspaper advertising appearing in the name of the company discussing political issues along with selling talk for shoes. The witness told the committee he could not say how much was spent in the campaign which was di- rected toward preventing the election being thrown into congress but that one advertisement, which was printed in 60 cities where the company had stores, had cost $15,000. He promised to furnish the information to the com mittee later.
 Hopes For More
 l.. k. Liggett, drug manufacturer and chairman of the Calvin Coolidge finance committee of Massachusetts, told the committee he had raised S45O.- 900 and hoped to get more than $50O,- GOO. He was questioned sharply by members of the committee and counsel the letter which the com mittee sent out asking for funds and saying "very large contributions would be so divided as to conform to the law
 The witness explained that the Mas. sachusetts law restricted contributions by an individual for the support of a state candidate to $1,000 and said that the letter meant that any contribution over Sl, JUL would De divided between the national committee and the state committee.
 Pays Expenses
 At the morning session the commit tee turned it's inquiry on the circum- stances surrounding the breakfast party given a tthe White House to dede- gation of actors from New York. Rhinelander Waldo, head of the Cool idge Non-Partisan club, said his or ganization had paid the expenses of the actors trip to Washington and that he made the arrangements through C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Coolidge.
 Then Gilson Gardner, a Washing. ton newspaper man, and supporter of La Toilette, told the committee he had
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