States Senate. Your committee conceives the purpose for which it was created to have been that it should ascertain not only whether those seeking entrance into the Senate gained their apparent nomination and election by fair and honest means, but also to ascertain all facts touching the methods of conducting elections which would be of advantage to the Congress in framing proper statutes to govern the conduct of elections.

Wherefore, your committee reports the facts as aforesaid to the Senate for such further action as the Senate may deem mete and proper.

Mr. GoFF, from the Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial Primary and General Elections, submitted the following

PARTIAL REPORT

[Pursuant to Senate Resolution 195]

SUPPLEMENTING REPORT No. 1197, PART 4, FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES SENATORIAL PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS

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On the calendar day of February 12, 1927, your committee submitted to the Senate the complete testimony in each case of certain witnesses, to wit: Robert E. Crowe, Samuel Insull, Daniel T. Schuyler, and Thomas W. Cunningham, who, while under oath before your committee, had refused to answer certain questions propounded to them and to give certain information as directed by said committee acting pursuant to Senate Resolution 195 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, first session.

For procedural reasons and in view of the few remaining legislative days of the present Congress, and apprehending that if the said witnesses upon second hearing would, or could be induced to, modify their previous refractory and contumacious conduct, the Senate would be spared the necessity of consuming valuable time needed for the consideration of important legislation in these matters, accordingly your committee directed the said Robert E. Crowe, Samuel Insull, Daniel T. Schuyler, and Thomas W. Cunningham to appear before it.

On Monday, the 21st day of February, 1927, at 10 o'clock a. m., the said witnesses presented themselves before your committee and were separately examined under oath. In each case a portion or portions of the record of the hearings of your committee containing the refusal or refusals of the witness to answer interrogatories propounded to him on his previous appearance or appearances were read to the witness, the same or substantially the same interrogatories were again propounded and every opportunity was given to each of the four said witnesses to answer fully and thus purge himself of the contempt in which he stood before your committee.

The complete transcript of the proceedings, including the testimony of the said witnesses follows and is hereby incorporated in this report and made a part hereof.

SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927

UNITED STATES SENATE,

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON

EXPENDITURES IN SENATORIAL ELECTIONS,

Washington, D. C.

The committee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10 o'clock a. m., in room 212, Senate Office Building, Senator James A. Reed presiding.

Present: Senators Reed of Missouri (chairman), McNary, Goff, La Follette, and King.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Is Judge Crowe here?

Mr. CROWE. Yes, sir.

TESTIMONY OF ROBERT E. CROWE-Resumed

(The witness was sworn by the chairman.)

The CHAIRMAN. You are the same Robert E. Crowe who testified before this committee about August 4, 1926, in the city of Chicago! Mr. CROWE. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. At that time you were asked certain questions, some of which you declined at the time to answer.

At least one of the purposes in recalling you before the committee is to give you another opportunity to answer these question which you then refused to answer. I intend, however, to read the questions that were asked you and your answers, as far as given, in order that you may get the particular questions that you did not answer, in their context.

You were asked these questions and gave these answers. I am reading from page 1850 and following pages of the printed record [reading]:

The CHAIRMAN. Judge, you were sworn before?

Mr. CROWE. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. How much money did you get from Samuel Insull in the campaign?

Mr. CROWE. For what purpose?

The CHAIRMAN. Any purpose.

Mr. CROWE. I received no money from Samuel Insull whatever on the senatorial proposition.

The CHAIRMAN. Was it to be used in the last primary?

Mr. CROWE. I received no money from Samuel Insull on the senatorial proposition.

The CHAIRMAN. No; but I am asking if you received money to be used in the last primary?

Mr. CROWE. For what purpose?

The CHAIRMAN. For any purpose; any money of any sort that was to be used in the last primary.

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