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ohene® are x Yo rode alo He x mea made fn ters * mar a oat ascounted for as required by “@ @ There ts something sinister about It— eailons fn ne S855 Woned. The $1,493,573 secretly dis- crn wareed by. the Republican National THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922. REPORT ON 6.0.P’S (Continued From First Page.) law. @omething that makes the leaders of athe party shy when they hear it men- Committee in the 1920 campaign ex- @veds by $175,299 the total expendi- tures, properly accounted for, of the Democratic National Committee in the same campaign. In January, 1907, the Congress en- ected a law requiring all political @ommittees to make complete returns ef receipts and expenditures In cam- paigns in which Representatives in Congress are elected. The law was @mended and stiffened in 1910, 1911 end 1912, and now requires the sub- mission of statements of receipts and expenditures in campaigns for nomi- gation as well as for election. ‘The gist of the law is, as it relates to the National Commitices, that :ho ‘Treasurer of each National Commit- @ee shall submit true reports of re- @eipte and expenditures at stated times during the campaign and a final statement within thirty days after the election. Every report or statement must be sworn to. The re-| ceipt must be acknowledged of amounts “contributed, promised, Toaned or advanced.” Fred H. Upham, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee swore to three statements in the 1920 cam- Daign, the first on Oct. 21, the second om Oct. 28 and the third on Noy. 19. Bach statement, according to the ac- eompanying affidavit stamped by a motary public in Cook County, Ill, was a “full, true and complete state- ment of receipts and disbursements” ef the Treasurer of the National) Committee and of Mr. Upham as the agent and trustee for Republican State committees. In each of Mr. Upham's statements FUND IN 1920 CAMPAIGN FULL OF STRANGE FATS ;The apparent deficit at the close of the campaign wns $189,427.95 There is nothing on file in the office lof the Clerk of the House bearing Mr. Upham’'s signature of a date ater than Nov. 19, 1920. On the face of his sworn @eclarations the campaien of 1920 had sun the Re- publican National Committee in the hole to the extent of less than $200,000. However, there is official evidence to show that Mr. Upham must have made another statement to somebody connected with the Government, This evidence is contained in a report made to the Senate in February, 1921, by Senator William S. Kenyon of Towa, Chairman of a committee ap- pointed In May, 1920, to investigate the collection and expenditure of funds by candidates for the nomina- tion for the office of President. From the report we take this extract: “Following is a statement of the disbursements of the national organt- zations of both Republican and Demo- cratic parties from the time of the national conventions up to the close Jof the campaign in connection with the Presidential election of Nov. 2, 1920, including the post-election financial statements Democratic Natl, Com.. .1,318,274,02" DISCREPANCY BETWEEN KEN- YON’S AND UPHAM'S FIGURES. Senator Kenyon obtained his fig- ures from the treasurers of the two national committees. But at the time Mr, Upham told Senator Ken- yon that the Republican National Committee had expended $5.319,729.32 there was on file in the office of the Clerk of the House on the ground floor of the Capitol, Mr. Upham's sworn statement that the Republican ‘ational Committee had spent only 022,580.23. The discrepancy be- tween the two reports is $1,297,149.23. But if the deficiency was really $1,688,000 at the close of the cam— paign—and we have Mr. Upham's word for jt, not under oath—his state- ment to Senator Kenyon was not more “full, true and complete’ than his statement to the Clerk of the House. For taking the apparent «e- Tt appears that every penny of mon- eys collected in States for the use of) state committees was paid to the sev-| era) State committees. His accounts, ‘as agent and trustee balanced. But in, @ statement issued in Chicago on Jan. 4 he said that at the close of th Committee owed State committees. UPHAM’S FIGURES FAIL TO CLEAR SITUATION. The statement of Oct. 21 purported to be a full, true and complete state- ment of receipts and expenditures from June 14 to Oct. 18. The re- eeipts were shown to be $2,466,019.54 and the expenditures $2,741,503.34 The statement of Oct. 28 covered the period from Oct. 18 to Oct. 24, and | showed receipts of $265,192.04 and Gisbursements of $301,358.98. The final report, which, according to the faw, should clean up the record of re- eetpts and expenditures and show the condition of the funds of the Nation- al Committee exhibited receipts from Oct. 24 to Nov. 19 of $1,101,940.56 and expenditures of $979,687.77. The disbursements recorded in Mr. Upham’s three sworn statements $86,000 to various; ficiency represented by the difference between his figures submitted at op- posite ends of the Capitol and adding to it the $189,427.95 deficiency shown in the sworn st. ment, we have total of only $1,486,577.18. This (he 1920 | $196,422.82 less than the deficit at the | qampaign the Republican National|ciose of the campaign, according to| Mr. Upham's statement made Chicago two weeks ago. This sum of $196,422.82 ix of posl- tive interest in connection with a per- sistent Washington rumor to the ef- fect that somebody holds an obliga- tion contracted in the 1920 campaign by the Republican National Commit- tee amounting, with interest, to about $204,000, and that this somebody his been using his claim in an attempt *o influence legislation in Congress. The report of the Democratic Na- tional Cimmittee for the 1920 cam- paign appears to have been full, true and complote. Wilbur W. Marsh, the Democratic Treasurer, included in his report an account of what the com- mittee owed at the close of the cam- paign. For printing, advertising, tele- graph and telephone tolls, rent, money advanced, money borrowed and mis- cellaneous items the committee went into debt $272,364. This debt has not in totalled $4,022,580.09. The aggregate @ receipts shown was $3,833,152.14. been materially reduced, while the Republicans have been collecting Republican Natl. Com... .$5,319,729.32 | nearly a million dollars, of which there is no record in the office of the Clerk of the House showing the |names and addresses of the contribu- tors NEW LAW ON CAMPAIGN CON- TRIBUTIONS NEEDED. ‘The object of the law requiring the filing of statements of campaign con- tributions and expenditures was to ob- tain an accounting which would be open to public view. With this end in mind, the legislation providés that the Cicrk of the House shall keep the te- ports in his office for fifteen months after the election and that they shy'i be open to public inspection. It was assumed that @ national com- mittee would have its work cleaned up within thirty days after tho elec- tion, In the 1920 campaign the Dem- ocratic National Committee did clean up and make @ final, complete report on Nov. 29. The record in the office of the Clerk of the House shows that the Repub- lican National Committee's report was a violation of the law because It did not include @ record of expenditures of about $1,500,000, The act as amended on Aug. 19, 1911, provides that the Treasurer of the National Committee shall report, under outh, “the total sum disbursed, distributed, contributed, loaned, advanced or prom- ised by such political committee or any officer, member or agent thereof." In his report to the Senate made in February, 1921, relating to the in- vestigation of campaign contributions and expenditures, Senator Kenyon wrote ‘Naturally the committee has dis- cussed remedies to limit the amount of campaign expenditures, for they feel that the expenditure of these vast sums is @ present and growing menace to the Nation. We recognize there are constitutional difficulties involved in the passage of laws to regulate ex- ponditures in Presidential campaigns, but are of the opinion that the Com- mittee on Privileges ano Elections of the Senate should, in the next Con- gress, take up the question of remedial legislation, and if a constitutional amendment should be necessary, that the proper steps be taken to submit the same, as provided by the Consti- tution. The subject is of such im- portance that the next Congress should give early attention thereto.” The ‘‘next Congress” referred to by Senator Kenyon in February, 1921, has been in almost continuous session for eleven months. The Committee on Privileges and Elections of the Se: won: + ovt the task of remedying “a pre and growing menace to the Nation" by seating Truman H. New- berry of Michigan, I. 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