The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-06
BISHOP Cannon
CHARGED With
FUND JUGGLING.
Anti Smith Contributions
Not All Listed, Donor
Tells ProberS.
LINKS G. O. P. LEADERS
SIemp, Good Played Part in
Getting Money in South,
Is Claim.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 6. = A
charge that Bishop James Cannon
Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, mIsrepresented the
campaign contributions he received
for the Smith movement in
1928, was made before the senate
lobby committee today by one of
the donors, E. G. Jameson, New
York, Republican insurance execu-
tive.
Revealing that he gave Cannon
$65, 300 in cash and checks made
out to cash, Jameson admitted
Cannons report that he received
only $17,3OO did not jibe with his
records.
Cannon had asked jameson to
make out the checks to cash"
rather than to him, Jameson tes-
tilted, after telling how he had
contributed $1I5,3 to Cannon and
other anti-Smith workers and only
$32,500 to the Hoover campaign.
Asks Reports Jibe
The committee produced tele-
gram in which Cannon requested
Jamerson to make his report coin
eide with the one Cannon had made
previously.
In this wire, Cannon asked that
Jamerson say he gave $4,000 to the
anti Smith committee instead of to
Cannon.
What became of the $4,000 has
not yet been developed.
Jameson interpreted Cannons re-
quest as meaning that Cannon was
turning over the $4,000 to the Vir-
GINA anti-Smith committee. At
least, this was the Interpretation
written by Jameson to Chairman
Steiwer of the 1928 presidential
campaign investigating committee.
But that does not correspond
with your record?" Chairman Cara
way insisted when Jameson's record
disclosed Cannon never had put his
name to any of the "cash check
contributions before the election.
well, it doesn't seem to, now does
it?" returned Jameson.
mo it doesn't" agreed Caraway.
Records of the anti-Smith COM
mittee of Virginia have not yet been
obtained to show whether Cannon
turned the disputed $4,000 to the
committee.
Jameson's testimony also revealed
that the Republican campaign Of
ficials, the late James w. Good and
c. Bascom Slemp, we're behind his
substantial financing of the anti
Smith movement in the south.
Good advised him to make the
contributions while Slemp in
troduced him to Cannon, he said.
Questioned by Chairman Caraway
of the lobby committee, Jameson
admitted giving some of the checks
to Cannon after the campaign. Re-
ferring to Cannon, the witness said
she was in debt, and financially
embarrassed"
Spent Own Money
jameson then corrected himself,
saying he did not mean financially
embarrassed" but that Cannon
seemed to have spent some of his
money in the campaign"
Anyway, I gave those checks as
a gift" Jameson added.
The New Yorker, who insisted be-
fore the committee that he was a
nonpartisan, was called at the be-
hest of Representative Tinkham
(Rep, Mass.), who first charged
that Cannon reported only $4,000
of the $65, 800 given by Jameson.
Jameson insisted his only interest
in making the contributions was his
ardent faith in prohibition, but
Caraway declared that Democrats in
the south had used this as a smoke
screen"
Caraway tried to show by other
correspondence that other consid-
erations than prohibition entered
into the matter.
What are you going to do now
that all your Republican clubs in
New York have turned wet?" the
chairman asked.
IF the Republicans don't nomi-
nate a reasonably dry candidate
there is going to be trouble" jane
son replied.