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68TH CONGRESS SENATE REPor
2d Session No. 1100
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES
FEBRUARY 3 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 12), 1925.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BORAH, from the Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures,
submitted the following
REPORT
[Pursuant to S. Res. 248]
On June 3, calendar day of June 5, 1924, the Senate of the United
States passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That a special committee of five Senators be elected forthwith to
investigate and report to the Senate on December 5, 1924, the campaign ex-
penditures made by or on behalf of, or in support of, or in opposition to, any and
all candidates for President and Vice President and presidential electors and
Senators of the United States Senate; the names of the persons, firms, or corpora-
tions contributing to the said candidate or candidates or their party committee
or committees, or any other agency, the amounts contributed, pledged, loaned
or otherwise made available for use, the method of expenditure of said sums, and
all the facts in relation thereto not only as to the subscriptions of money and the
expenditures thereof, but as to the use of any other means of influence, including
the promise of patronage, and all other facts in relation thereto that would not
only be of public interest but would aid the Congress in any necessary remedial
legislation.
That said committee is hereby empowered to sit and act during the adjourn-
ment of Congress at such time and place as it may deem necessary; to require
by subpoena, or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses, the production of books,
papers, and documents; to employ stenographers at a cost of not exceeding 25
cents per hundred words. The chairman of the committee, or any member
thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses. Subpoenas for witnesses shall be
issued under the signature of the chairman or any member of the committee.
Every person who, having been summoned as a witness by authority of said
committee, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer
any question pertinent to the investigation heretofore authorized, shall be held
to the penalties provided by section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
The expense thereof shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate on
vouchers ordered by said committee, signed by the chairman thereof and ap-
proved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the
Senate.
That thereafter the following committee was appointed under the
above resolution, to wit, William E. Borah, Wesley L. Jones, T. H.
Caraway, Thomas F. Bayard, and Henrik Shipstead; that said com-
mittee held a number of hearings and had before it a great number of](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.beal/ecex0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)