Evening star., 1924-10-16
SHAVER HITS c. 0. P.
ELECTION EXPENSES.
RidicuIes $4,000 Limit on
Campaign Gifts-Points to
192O-22 Finances.

Chairman Glenn l.. Shaver of the
Democratic national committee issued
this statement last night:
The pious pronouncement Of the
Republican national committee that a
limit Of $4,000 has been placed on
amounts that may be contributed to
the CoolidgeDawes campaign fund
recalls that four years ago Chairman
Will Hays made a similar announce
ment, except that in that campaign
he fixed the limit at $1,000. Mr..
Hays limitation came hard upon the
heels of the sensational disclosures of
huge sums expended in the pre-con-
vention campaign of Gen. Leonard
Wood
Despite the $1,000 limitation, Re-
publican headquarters raised and ex-
pended more than $6,000,000 in the
Harding Coolidge campaign. and more
than 100000 additional through
State committees. One of the meth
ods Of getting around Mr.. Hays pub
licly proclaimed 81 900 limit was dis
closed during the Senate committees s
investigation of the naval oil leases.
when Mr.. Hays admitted that $4,000
of the debt piled up by Mr.. Hays COM
mittee in the 1920 campaign was un-
derwritten by Harry +. Sinclair. the
man to whom Secretary Fall leased
Teapot Dome, out of which lease, to-
gether with that OF Elk Hills reserve
lease, in California, Mr.. Fall, accord
ing to testimony, has received more
than 100000. Yet this did not ap-
pear in the list of contributions to
the campaign which the Republican
committee reported to Congress. as re-
Quired by law.
Limit Vas Not Binding.
THE $1,000 Limitation wasn't bind
ing in 1922, when. among others, X
Il. Mellon of Pittsburgh. brother OF
the Secretary of the Treasury gave
$2500O to the national committee
and $1,000 to the Republican con-
gressional committee. Mr.. Mellon is
one of the chief owners of the Alum
mum Trust, which the Federal Trade
Commission reports has profited
hugely by the tariff on aluminium
written into the Fordney bill. Or
was it binding on Henry F. Lppitt,
the Rhode Island cotton mill baron.
after the Republicans had written
enormously high rates on cotton
manufactures into the Fordney tariff.
That Chairman Buffers finan
cierS know how to get around any
limitation, whether it be $1,000 or
5000, has been proven in President
Coolidge's own State. Massachusetts,,
this year, whore there is a State
statute limiting contributions to
$1,000. But tariff protected mill
owners in that State. in appealing
to other tariff beneficiaries to sub
scribe to funds for the campaign of
Mr.. Coolidge, told prospective con-
trihutors that there is no limit to
the amount an individual may give
to this committee. Large contribu-
tions will be so divided as to give
full observance to the requirements
of the statutes
Questions Amount To BE Spent.
with a limit Of $1,000 in 1920 and
more than eight million dollars raised
and expended through national and
State headquarters, what expendi-
lures may be made in 1924, with the
limit raised to $4,000.
THAT all the money raised and ex-
pended may never be known is as
serted on as high an authority as the
Senate Committee headed by Senator
Kenyon of Iowa, which Investigated
1890 expenditures OF the expendi-
lures it was able to discover that
Senate House These figures do not
by any means represent the entire
amount of money expended in the
They did not include the
$4,000 which Harry F. Sinclair I'M
DER wrote and about which nothing
would ever have been known had
not the lease of the naval oil re-
serves brought about the investiga-
ton that disclosed, among other
things. how Mr.. Sinclair had been
one Of Mr.. Hays financial angels"
Points to Oil Case.
Chairman Shaver. in another state
ment, said: Secretary of the Nayy
Wilbur has been subpoenaed to tes-
tify for the defense in the suits to
determine the legality Of the Doheny
Oil leases in southern California
Former Secretary of the Navy
Daniels has been subpoenaed to tes-
tify for the Government.
The need of Doheny for the help of
the present Secretary of the Navy.
who was muzzled by President Cool
idge on his last trip West for talking
too much like the famous parrot. is
revealed in the statement Of the Pan
Petroleum and Transport
Company (Dohenys company, that
Secretary Wilbur is subpoenaed as a
witness for the defense and is re-
quired to submit to the court certain
files of the Navy Department, on
which, it is understood. the Pan
American Petroleum Company relies
to demonstrate the great importance
Of the national defense Of the accu-
mutation of fuel oil on the Pacific
Coast and the construction of ade-
quate storage and lightering facili-
ties at Hawaii
Secretary Daniels has just left
where he stopped for a
few days en- route to Los Angeles,
where he is under orders to appear