The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

eve propose to show by the cor
 respondence which has been inter-
 ccpted and turned over to us by
 those who did not agree with this
 way of running our government, |
 that the effort is being made di-
 rectly to carry the northwestern,
 western and southwestern states,
 and to carry them with the money
 collected by the beneficiaries of the
 present business combinations, and
 we will show later on by the very
 money of the farmers in hitse
 states that is in the banks in the
 city of New York today"
 Declaring that the full extent to which money for the aid of the repub1- lican, ticket is being raised could De ascertained only by rigid cross-examina. ton ot those he believes are interested in the movement, Walsh asked the committee to issue subpoenas for num- Der of persons living in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Kansas City.
 Walsh did not confine himself solely 10 the presentation of documents and giving his interpretation of them. lie quoted Senator La Toilette as assalilng William V. Hodges, treasurer Of the republican national committee, in con- nection with the sugar tariff.
 Senator La Toilette says,' he told the committee "that the treasurer of the republican national committee IS the paid representative, or was at the time became treasurer, of the sugar interests in Washington, and appeared before the tariff commission and also did other work with members of the tariff commission and others interested to keep up the price of sugar.
 Senator Ia Toilette says that the
 mere fact that he is treasure of 3 political party with this sugar mat
 ter stfH under advisement by the [ President of the United States, is 2
 scandal of national proportions in It.
 self, and he would like to have the
 opportunity to have his counsel cross"
 examine Mir. Hodges and lead up to
 where he is getting his contributions"
 La Follette's counsel also assailed the republican national committee for expending $437 ,00O for publicity at q time, he said, when never before had the newspapers so freely reported the addresses of political candidates, those of La Toilette and Davis, and of Coolidge and the others. He charged the use of corrupt minor press" and of corrupt minor speakers" in con- nection with the publicity campaign.
 Senator Caraway, democratic, Ar kansas, suggested that a part of this expenditure was flor the ultimate pur- pose of 'debunking' La Toilette"
 'Yes," returned Mir. Walsh, land I want to say for Mir. La Toilette it is part of his mission now, he is but a humble instrument in it, but it happens they made the attack on him, and it is a part of his mission, paraphrasing that another man said, to 'de-louse' the } political parties of this country, regard less of what they are"
 Most of the letters presented by Walsh held up the possibility of La Fol lette getting enough votes to throw the election into congress and the final selection there of Charles W. Bryan, the democratic vice presidential nomi- nee. In one letter La Toilette and Wheeler were ikened to Lenine and Trotsky. sa rgs,.J
 A Business Proposition
 One of the Simmons letters said that ''as a business proposition, your assO- ciates should contribute literally, al- most regardless of party affiliations, to prevent the success of this, (the La Fol lette) movement.
 Apparently the only sure way to kill off this movement is the proper expenditure now of campaign funds, for speakers and other legitimate expenses in these western states where such cam paigns, if promptly conducted, can pro- duce republican victory. It is report ed that thus far many times the amount of money has been spent on the La Fol lette campaign as on either the republi- can or demOcratic' campaign"
 l Walsh also charged that the Penn, Sylvania railroad was circulating pro paganda on its menu cards in favor of Coolidge and Dawes, and he asked that President Atterbury be summoned tC tell where the funds for this came from
 Walsh's request for the examination of Commissioner O'Conner was on tht basis of his statement th8t Senator La 4 Toilette was receiving substantial sup port from soviet Russia through Mexi co. His request for the summoning oi the manager of the Hamilton hotel Washington, he explained, was to ascer tain who paid the bills of 78 labor lead CTS who went to Washington Labor Day to hear President Coolidge speak.
 La Toilette counsel also asked tha he summon Charles Hilles, but he diC not indicate the purpose of calling Mir Hilles. Also he wants to have ex amined J. ". Berry, Theodore Gary and, Joseph R. Shannon of Kansas City increasing the allegation that the bank CTS are raising funds. He told the com mittee that shannon, a democrat, hat stated in speech that two funds wer, being raised in Kansas City, one by tn, bankers and one by the business men that Perry had collected the banker fund and that Kennedy collected tn, other fund.