Evening star., 1940-09-14
Senate Investigators
Must Rule ON Politics.
In Presidents S Trip
First Lists Of Campaign
Income Show Democrats
Under, 6. O. P. Over 1886
AH the Associated Dress

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The special Senate committee ap-
pointed to police this years elec-
tions was faced today with the pros
pect of deciding, formally, the Ques-
ton raised by Republican leaders
as to whether President RooSevelt's s
speaking trip over last Labor Day
was political"
Representative Joseph w. Martin,
ir., of Massachusetts, chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
asked the Senate group to find out
who paid the expenses for the
Presidential train and to deter
mine whether these costs should
come within the S3,0O0,000 limit on
Presidential campaign expenditures
imposed by the Hatch Act.
Chairman Gillette, Democrat. of
Iowa said he would place a letter
from Mr.. Martin before the five
member committee at a closed Ses-
sion
He announced also he would sub
nit reports by committee investi-
gators on complaints of padding
voting registration lists in Hud-
son County, N. j., and Wilmington,
Del.
Senator Gillette invited Represen-
tative Martin to appear before the
committee, but the Republican
chairman declared he would be un-
hi of tor
would present his views.
Conditions startling"
He and other Republican spokes-
men have asserted that the presi-
dental trip. from Hyde Park, N. Y,
into the Tennessee Valley area, was
part of a political campaign" for
reelection. Democratic leaders
have maintained that the Presi-
dents speeches dedicating Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
and the Chickamauga Dam on the
Tennessee River were "non-politi-
cal
Considerable interest attached also
to the Senate Committees inquiry
into alleged padding of registra-
tion lists in Hudson County, Demo-
cratic stronghold of Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City, and the Re
publican stronghold at Wilmington.
Senator Gillette said the investi-
gators reports showed startling
conditions"
IF these are true picture. they
certainly would force the commit
tee to take some specific direct
action for their immediate correc-
ton" the Senator said.
Party Expenditures Drop.
Initial reports of campaign eX-
penditures for the three months
ending August 81. showed both par
ties running we'll behind 1886. This
year, the Democratic National Com
mittee reported disbursements of
339,14 and the Republicans $685.
144.
During the same period, the Re
publicans reported income of ST.
459.632 and the Democrats, 1888 .o46
Individual contributions to the Re-
publicans ranged from 10 cents to
$1,000, but the party's Finance CON-
mittee for New York City tossed in
100000. Although substantially less
than in 1886, the Democrats realized
Sl97,4I8 from sale of space in their
convention book
Democrat Donors Listed
The Democratic Committee re-
ported that receipts from sales of
advertising in The Book of the
Democratic National Convention Of
1940" included
Holland Furnace Co, Holland,
Mich. s2,50O; Walsh Construction
Co, Davenport, Iowa. $500 North
American Rayon Corp, New York
City, $500; Great Lakes Dredge &
Dock Co., Chicago, $500; Standard
Register Co.. Dayton. Ohio. S2500;
Pabst Brewing Co. Milwaukee, s12.-
50O American Books Sales Co. Mi
agara Falls, N. Y, s2,5OO; William
Wrigley, Jr. Co.. Chicago, s3,125;
Mrs. Clara Driscoll. Corpus Christi,
Tex, $1,000; Owens Illinois Glass
Co. Toledo. Ohio. s2,50O; Charles
Englehard, New York City, $3.50:
Thomas A. Edison. Inc. Orange, N
j., s2500; Tanforan Race Track,
DAILY City, Calf, $500
Also American Tobacco Co, New
York City, s3,125: William Esty &
Co. Inc, New York, s3,125; United
Airlines Transport Corp, Chicago,
S2.500; Herlihy Mid-Continent Co.,
Chicago, $1,000; International Busi-
ness Machine Corp. New York City,
s3.125; United States Masters As
sociation, Chicago. $4,000: J. W.
Marchbank, Walnut Greek, Calf,
$4,000; Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workers of America,
Chicago. $500; Marmon- Herrington
Co, Indianapolis, S2,500: Celanese
Corp. of America, New York City,
$500; National Aviation Day ASso-
citation, Washington. $500; Electric
Auto-Lite Co., Toledo, 81 500; Bath
Iron Works, Bath. Me. s2,500.
Convention Box Receipts.
Receipts from convention boxes
at the Democratic National Conven-
ton at Chicago included:
Mrs. Norman E. Mack. Buffalo,
N. Y. 81 900; Joseph L. Gill, Wood
ruff, Wis, $500; Herbert H. Lehman.
New York City, $500; Paul V. Nc
Mutt, for President, indianapolis,
$1,000; E. A. Cudahy, jr., Chicago,
$1,000; Albert M. Greenfield, New
York City, $500; L. w. Robert, jr..
Atlanta, 81 500.
Contributions of $4,000 or more
reported by the Republican National
Committee included:
H. H. Timken. Canton, Ohio
$4,000; United Republican Finance
Committee for Metropolitan New
York, 100000: Mrs. H. H. Timken,
Canton, Ohio. s3,334.34; Powell
Crosley. jr., Cincinnati, Ohio. $4,000;
Mrs. Lilly A. Fleischmann, Cincin-
natl, $2,75O; Republican Finance
Committee of Pennsylvania, Pitts
burgh, $4,000; Paul Mellon, Pitts
burgh, $4,000 Richard E. Mellon,
Pittsburgh. $4,000; Silas H Strawn,
Chicago, $4,000; Sewell L. Avery,
Chicaco S3 0O0. MrS Georoe n