AMERICAN POLITICS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS

REPUBLICAN PARTY FUNDS MORE DISCLOSURES. SENATOR BORAH’S ATTACK. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPY BIGHT. Received 9.45 a.in. to-day. WASHINGTON, March 10. With apparently no end. to flic sensational developments in the oil investigations, it was to-day disclosed that Mr Mellon admitted that iMr Hays sent him a package in 1923, containing 50,000 dollars in Liberty bnods, part of Sinclair’s 2.60,000 dollar donation to the Republican National Committee and asked for cash for them. Mr Mellon returned them, declaring .them to be a “dummy” to cover up the source of funds and to make up for the shortage he thereafter contributed 50,000 dollars of his own money to the campaign committee. It was indicated that the Senate Committee will call on Mr Mellon and Mr Butler, present chairman of the Republican National Committee, a close friend of President Coolidge’s, to testify. Senator Borah launched an attack on the Republican Party to-night. He said: “Give the people the issue. You do not have to sell your soul for campaign funds. The awful conditions which have been revealed to the voters of the party are as indefensible as they are intolerable.”