New Britain herald., 1925-02-13
.SLUSH FUND IS
 NOT ACTUALITY
BOrah Reports That Charge Was
 Not Proved

Washington, Feb. lS,--Charges of huge republican slush fund in the presidential contest last fall failed of standardization, it was in- dicated here by the report of the | special committee headed by Sen ator Borah, which investigated eN- pcnditures in the campaign. The report, filed with the senate yester- day afternoon. is significantly silent on the subject,
 The chief feature of the report which is a result of the inyestiga- ton made largely because of allega- tions by Senator la Toilette and others against the republicans, is recommendation that congress en- act a corrupt practices act identical with that recently adopted by the senate as rider to the postal pay bill. This act was drawn by Sen ator Walsh of Massachusetts.
 Questions Shifting of Funds Without making a specific recom- mendation, the committee also eN- presses the belief congress should give serious consideration to the practice of collecting campaign l funds in one state for use in other states. It is held that expenditures in states by national political or ganizations should be "accommodat-
 ed to some extent to the size and
 population of the states
 The report sets forth that it's in
 vestigations show that the repubn-
 can national committee received
 contributions of s4.36O,47S,S2; that
 i. expended $4,370,409.O1 and re-
 turned to the states s5I3.599.20.
 The democratic national commit
 tee, it declares. received $S2l,oS1'Vo
 and spent $903, ,908.21.
 The La Toilette committee re-
 ceived $221,S37.21 and spent S22l'-
 977.5s.
 Would Base Fund On Population
 After Senator Borah makes the committee recommendation that the senate enact the Walsh proposal for regulating campaign contributions and expenditures, the report con- cludes:
 "In perfecting our corrupt prac- flee laws an effort should be made to take into consideration the question oF population in the respective states. Tn fixing limit of eXpendl- lures 1t cannot be deemed wise or just to fix the same amounts for a candidate for the senate, for illus tration, in state with a population of 100000 as in the state with a population of 7,000,000 or more. In other words, the expenditures should
 be accommodated to some extent to
 the size and population of the state or district.
 "A practice is now in vogue Of collecting large sums of money Tn certain states and sending it into other states for the purpose of being used in carrying on party campaigns and in controlling elections. This practice may well become the sub feet of abuse and lead to evil and corrupt practices and results. The ctSnmittee calls this feature of cam
 raign collections and expenditures
 particularly to the consideration Of
 congress and believes that in the
 matter of future legislation 1t should
 have serious consideration"
 Gives List of Contributions
 The committee, thoug not spoci-
 flcally referring to the alleged slush
 fund, indicates that 1t believes its figures are essentially accurate. The } committee says that with reference to the sums collected and expended by the different states, it has nc means of checking these and docs s not present them as being wholly accurate. But the committee be lieves them to be substantially so. TIe committee further says that with reference to all figures inc'i J. ed In this report, particularly "tt reference to collections and eXpendi' ! lures, they have been gathered bl | going through vast amount O testimony and reports and 1t ma! ! well be that some inaccuracies, par | ticularly as 10 details may be found i But in all substantial particulars tho !! committee believes the report give ! the facts.
 i Most of the space Of the report fl I taken up with the presentation O ] figures as to contributions and eH 1 penditures which have proviousl, : | heen made nuhIic