Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16

report OF treaSurerS OF pOllLlcal COM
mittees subject to public inspection.
Other witnesses before the grand
jury included former United States
Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of
New Jersey, who gave Cannon the two
$4,000 checks mentioned among the
overt acts of the indictment: DR.. Ar
thur j. Barton of Wilmington, N. c.,
said to be associated with the Anti
Saloon League; Col. Wade H. Cooper,
president of the Commercial National
Bank and former head of the CONT
mental Trust Co.: Charles W. Warden,
former vice president of the CONT
mental Trust Co.; Perry c. Seay. vice
president. American Bank & Trust Co.
of Richmond; j. A. Booker, cashier,
Citizens Bank g. Trust Co. of Black
stone. Va: S. L. Barrow president OF
the First National Bank of Blackstone;
Frank w. Sheffield, cashier of the
Bank of Crewe, Va, and others.
E. j. Armbruster, auditor of the Bu-
reau of Investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice, worked up the imam
cial details of Cannon's transactions in
several banks and gave the result OF
his inquiry to the grand jury. He
was aided by L. P. Oliver of the bureau.
Expects Vindication.
Mr.. Mcneil, Bishop Cannon's attor-
ney, issued the following statement:
Nov that the grand jury has acted
and the matter Is to be considered by
a petit jury, it would seem manlfeStly
improper for me to do more than say
that, according to my investigations OF
both the law and the facts, full and
open hearing, when all the facts can
be brought out, will vindicate the con-
duct of Bishop Cannon and his aSso-
clate.
Bishop Cannon for more than 80
years has been the leader in a series
of battles for civic and moral reforms
in the United States, and during that
time he has been aSSailed by special
interests, sometimes clean and Scme-
times corrupt, but I have too much
faith in the integrity of American jur-
ors and courts to believe that they will
fail to find the truth in their deliber-
ationS
My chief regret as to the delibera-
tons of the grand jury is that it did
not have before 1t f1rst-hand document
airy substantive evidence as to the So
called Jameson and FrelinghuySen con-
tributions and their disposition, which
could have been given them in full by
Bishop Cannon and the witnesses, whose
names he gave to the district attorney
and to the grand jury. only one of
which witnesses was permitted to appear
before the grand jury.
Never in this decade has one man,
out of public Office had such influence
upon public opinion as Bishop Cannon
believe this influence has been ire
mendously beneficial to the development
of great moral principles. will not be
lieve, nor do I believe, the public will
credit the charge that such leader of
public thought and moral advancement
has been guilty of violating any statute
of the United States or of any State"
Jameson Contributions.
Bishop Cannon contended before the
Senate Campaign Funds Committee that
he was not required to make any report
of the other 5000 on the ground that
it was spent for a State campaign.
The jurors listed the following con-
tributions by Jameson to Bishop Can
non:
September 49,, 1928, $4,000.
September %, 1923, $4,000.
october 9, 1923, $4,000.
october 16, 1928, $4,000.
october 16, 1923, $4,000
october 10. 1928, $4,000.
December 6, 1923, $4,000.
January, IA, 1929, $4,000.
CANNON MOT SURPRISED"