The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-13
Subcommittee Unanimous Iy Reports That Charges
 Are Not Proven
TESTIMONY FROM THE
 CHICAGO TRIAL USED
It Is Reported That Every Member of the Full Committee Will Vote to Sustain the Sub Commit
 tee Report

Washington, December 12.-Theo committee of the Senate, whieo . s been Investigating the char of bribery in connection with the iec- ton of Senatotr Lorimer of Illinois, testimony does not prove any of the charges made.
 The committee reviewed the evidence in It's entirety at an executive session and decided there had been shown no foundation for the oharges that bribery had entered into the case with MT. Lorimer's election.
 The motion finally was offered to report to the full committed of the Sen ate that the charges had not been proven. On this motion there was no dissenting vote in the sub b-committee. Following this action tho sub commit tees report will be prepared by the full committee at once and the report will be sent to- the Senate within a sh ort time.
 The subcommittee consists of Sem ators Burrows of Michigan. Bulkeley of Connecticut, Gamble of South Dakota,
  of Tennessee, Paynter of Kentucky, and Johnston of Alabama, democrats.
 These men conducted the hearing and practically all the testimony of the case was taken in Chicago.
 The full committee may meet late this week to receive the sub commit tees report but no session of the full committee has yet been called. The procN <ngs of the sub-commit- tee today were executive, all members declining to discuss their action A resolution was adopted by the commit tee by which all members agreed not to divulge any of the proceedings or to discuss the vote until after the mat l ter has been submitted to the full com mittee. The full committee consists entirely of lawyers and it is expected that they will judge the evidence from a technical point of view much the same as a court would do. The re- port was current about the Senate that an informal canvass of the committee had been tagen and not one member of the entiA. committee would vote to sustain the charges. This, however, was not confirmed.
 There Is no doubt that the action of the subcommittee reported today Is correct
 Although members of the commit tee refused to discuss 1t publicly, news of the action was communicated to their colleagues in the Senate who are not members of the committee.
 Story of the Charges
 Chicago, December 12.-The charge that Senator I.Orimar had !, ea1 tg In the United States Senate was first made when a confession of Charles A. White. member of the Illinois legisla- ture from o Fallon, former street car conductor and labor lobbyist at Spring. field, was published in a Chicago news paper April 90, 1910 The names of State Representatives Lee ONeil Browne H. l. c. Beckemeyer. Michael Link and Robert IL. Wilson were mentioned as having been Involved in the purchase of the senatorial toga.
 White declared he had been paid 5000 for his Lorimer vote by Browne, the mil nority leader. at Springfield. White him self was democrat and Senator Lorimer had been elected by combination of lslature had been deadlocked for months in vain effort to elect a senator
 To States Attorney Wayman of Cooke county, Beckemeyer and Link confessed that they had received money after vot- ing for Lorimer. States Attorney Burke of Sangamon county forced from State Senator D. W. Holstelaw a declaration that he had been paid $25o0 for his Lori mer vote by State Senator John Broder- ick, Chicago saloonkeeper and a demo- cratic friend of Lorimer
 Indictments were returned against the men involved in both Cooke and Sanga- mon counties.
 Lee O'Neil Browne was tried twice in the criminal court of Cooke county. The first time the jury disagreed on June 2S, after having been out for longer period than any other jury in the history of the country The second trial of Browne end ed September 8, when second jury re- turned a verdict of not guilty. Browne has been reelected to the Illinois legis- lature from La Sa1le county
 As result of the charges and subse- quent indictments, Senator Shelby M. Cullom introduced resolution in the United States Senate asking an early and complete investigation of the election of Senator Lorimer On September IS the senatorial Investigating committee con vened in Chicago. The formal charges of bribery were presented by the Legisla- tive Voters league.