Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
WILSON DECLINED
RAIL POST, HE SAYS
Offered Job After Nomination.
Democratic Candidate
Tells Senate Probers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
William b. Wilson, Secretary Of La
Dor under Woodrow Wilson and now
Democratic nominee for Senator in
Pennsylvania, was questioned today
by the Senate campaign funds com
mittee.
The witness said his personal eX
penses in the primary campaign
amounted to sSsS1. He added that
he was associated in the campaign
with William +. Porter, one Of the
defeated candidates for governor, and
that their campaign committee spent
about $4,000.
-Four thousand of that has been
paid" said Wilson. land $4,000 has
been obligated to be paid. later"
Picking up an itemized statement
filed by Wilson. Chairman Reed unused
over it smilingly. and said:
Il see some startling accounts here
for meals at the William Penn Hotel
in Pittsburgh. Here is one of 80 cents,
another of 90 cents. another of 10
cents, another of 20 cents and still
another of 20 cents. You get as low
as so for restaurant meal
tHGIuucu All
After laugh all around the former
Labor Secretary said the $4,000 out
lay of the Wilson-Porter committee
included all money spent In the cities
and counties.
Did you have watchers at the polls
at $40 day or s5 a day." asked Sen
ator King, Democrat, Utah.
Not that ! know Of" Wilson said.
We got only about $4,000. and not
very many watchers could be en-
ployed at that rate
who guaranteed the remainder of
the s1O,ooo?"
Vance Mccormick
He referred to the Harrisburg pub
Usher and former chairman of the
Democratic national committee.
Offered Board Post.
Replying to Senator La Toilette,
Republican,, Wisconsin, Wilson dis
closed that since his nomination he
had been offered and had declined a
place on the Railroad Mediation
Board. set up under the new Watson
Parker railroad labor act and recently
appointed by President Coolidge. He
said the appointment was rendered
confidentially and that he would not
have mentioned it had he not been
under oath.
well, it was the best offer that 1
have heard of recently from that
source" said Reed.
After Wilson had left the stand,
and with Wayne B. Wheeler still
waiting to continue his story of Anti
Saloon League activities, the COM
mittee turned once more to the ques-
ton of expenditures on behalf of
William s. Ware, the successful Re
publican senatorial candidate. A.
Nevin DIETRICH, chief of the highway
bureau in the Pennsylvania treasury
department and assistant manager Of
the are-Beidleman ticket, said he
visited Harrisburg in May, and got
Charles Musser of the State treasury
to keep a wallet for him in the safe
over night. In the wallet was a
81 900 bill, which DIETRICH testified he
was taking to Mr.. Lentz, chairman
of the Ware committee in Miff1in
County.
Took Only $1,000.
Where did you get the $1,000 bill?"
Reed asked.
From Judge Watson, treasurer of
the Ware campaign"
Did you carry any other money
over the State for Watson?"
NO SIR
After leaving Harrisburg, DIETRICH
visited county chairmen in a number
Of counties westward of the capital.
"You took $4,000 down to Harris.
burg didn't your" Reed asked.
II did not, sir"
you are sure you did not take
more than you have told us about?"
II am"
"Why wasn't check sent?"
THAT l can't say"
Anything unusual about the trans
action that a check could not be
used?''
Not that I know of. Lentz gave a
recent. which mailed to Judge Wat
son."
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