Evening star., 1928-05-22
Senate Committee Also May
Visit West Virginia Be-
fore Convention.
EXPENSES IN HOOSIER
COUNTY UNDER SCRUTINY
Additional Expenditures by Willis
Forces Testified to by
Carmi Thompson.
By the Assoclated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Unable to obtain all the information
1t seeks from witnesses called TO WASH
ington. the Senate presidential cam
paign funds investigating committee has
decided to go into Ohio and Indiana
and perhaps West Virginia
Senator Steiwer, Republican. Oregon,
chairman OF the committee, who re-
turned today with Senator Bratton,
Democrat. New Mexico, from Raleigh
N. c., said the trips would be made
before the convening of the Republican
national convention at Kansas City on
June II.
In Ohio the committee will seek to as
certain the expenditures by district
and county committees, while the pri-
mary purpose of the trip to Indiana
will be to find out how much money
was spent in Allen County. where a
separate organization was set up on be-
half OF Senator James T.. Watson, who
carried his State over Herbert Hoover
In the primary on May g.
Testimony OF Brown.
Thad H. Brown. Ohio manager for
Hoover, testified last week that there
were a dozen local organizations In
Ohio that had raised and spent money
for the Commerce Secretary. His own
committee expended $37.75o, he said,
estimating that the district or county
committees spent from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Turning to the Ohio situation today
the committee learned from Carmi
Thompson, who managed the Willis
for-President campaign that in addi-
ton to the Sal ,2i6.88 which his COM
mittee spent, there were outlayS by
several county organizations. He said
$500 had been raised and expended
i'll Cuyahoga County (Cleyeland) to
carry on the fight for convention dele
gates against Secretary Hoover.
Chairman Steiwer said he had been
informed by the election supervisors In
Hamilton County (Cinoinnati) that
Charles M. Dean, directing the Willis
campaign there. had reported receipts
OF 81 ,450 and expenditures of $I,443.e5.
Steiwer also said that one Hoover
Ior-President organization In Hamilton
County nad reported expenditures of
s9,625.76 and another OF S73I0.
Thompson testified that the commit.
tee could get line on all expenditures.
In addition TO the ones he reported, BY
communicating with the secretary OF
state at Columbus and with the elec-
tions supervisors In Franklin County
tColumbus).
Dawes Brother Contributor.
Thompson said he probably had
spent $4,000 In furthering the willis
campaign, OF which $4,000 was listed
on his contribution statement. II was
brought out that b. q. Dawes OF
Columbus. a brother OF the Vice Presi-
dent, was the heaviest contributor to
the Willis campaign fund. of which n
total OF $26,li0 was received after the
Senator's death on March 80. Thomp-
son said b. q. Dawes always had con-
tributed TO Republican campaign funds
In Ohio and that he personally had
solicited hts contribution.
Asked as to the Identify of j. w.
Hopkins and T. w. Robinson, both OF
Chicago. down on the report for con-
tributions Of $4,000 each, Thompson
said Robinson was a banker and In
vestment broker. He said he was not
acquainted with Hopkins. The two
$1,000 donations, the committee was
told, we're received through w. M. Mills
OF Marietta, who himself gave $1,000.
Thompson said that after Senator
Willis death there was nothing but
CONFUSION IN the Willis ranks ana ne
never had been ''in more delicate sit
uatlon either In politics or business" /"
Explaining that the Hamilton County
committee had sent in It's report as "a
Dawes committee" Thompson said "the
Vice President never gave his permis-
son for that"
Unauthorized by Dawes.
THE Vice President never authorized
the use Of his name and / know this
because spoke 10 him about tin any
way in connection with this contest for
delegates" Dawes all the time said that
ne was not candidate and that he
was friendly 10 Gov. Lowden, the wit
ness continued.
Thompson said that In Mahnning
County (Youngstown) the committee
there opposed 10 Hoover Endorsed
Charles n. Hughes In the same way
that the Hamilton County committee
Endorsed Vice President Dawes. That
was without Hughes knowledge, he
said
After Thompson had been excused
Senator Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky,
told his committee colleagues that news
dispatches OF the hearing YESTERDAY in
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