Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-12

re gistration and public service bills,
ard proceed with their consideration
for enactment and prolong the session
probably another two weeks or a
month. Whatever course Ia chosen
will depend upon an agreement be-
tween the steering committees appoint
ed by the conservative and platform
divisions of the Democratic majority
Senators Adams and McCne for the
former and Senators Scott and Tobin
Tor the latter The big four got to
sether yesterday afternoon and tried
TO arrange program agreeable to
their sides. They have plenary pow
ers. Failing to reach satisfactory
conclusion they got together again this
forenoon All else in tie senate has
been put aside to await this confer.
ence which was not ended early this
afternoon.
NEW YORK, Sept. S.-Charged with
incorporation of funds of the cloak
makers union, which recently con.
cluded an agreement with employers
after strike in which thousands OF
hands had been forced into the street
Louis Rosen, secretary of the union is
under arrest here today charged with
the larceny of 500 from the union
treasury. The loss OF wages in earn
ings and the profits to workers and
manufacturers has been reckoned at
more than one hundred million dollars.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-Standing last
night in the presence of 1,200 men,
nearly all of them citizens OF Illinois
and a majority of them prominent in
politics and business life, Theodore
Roosevelt brought his hearers to wild
enthusiasm by his scathing denuncia
tion of political conditions in Illinois
Earlier in the day Roosevelt had bar
red William Lorimer. Junior Illinois
United States senator from the ban
quet by declaring he would not sit
at the same table with him. Lorimer's
election to the senate in the spring Of
1909 was followed this spring by the
indictment of the Illinois legislators
on charge that they had been bribed
to vote for the blond boss" The
great banquet hall at the Congress ho
tel never witnessed such a scene, nor
echoed to such tumult as followed
the close of Colonel Roosevelt's ad
dress. Members of the Hamilton club
under whose auspices the banquet was
given, together with their guests stood
on the chairs and tables waving hand
kerchiefs in the widest manner while
they cheered the speaker at the top of
their voices. After his introduction
Colonel Roosevelt declared he was
about to talk on delicate matters,
which nevertheless, should be treated
only with directness. Following this
he took up the condition in Illinois
politics, described by witnesses in the
present trial of Lee O'Neill Browne,
for bribery in connection with the cleo
ton of William Lorimer to tue United
States senate.
Read the confessions of those four
members of the Illinois legislature,
who have appeared in the case" de
cared Colonel Roosevelt. Read the
evidence obtained by the states at.
torneys of two counties and know that
Illinois politics cannot be cured by
ignoring what is going on. It is dis.
graceful"
| CHICAGO. Sept. 9.-The factional
split in the Republican party in Hi
nois is today wider than ever as a
result of the Roosevelt Lorimer In.
cident. Nothing in recent political
history so stirred the political pot as
the slap administered to I.orimer and
his followers by Colonel Roosevelt In
refusing to attend the Hamilton club
banquet last night until invitation to
Lorimer had been recalled and its eff
feet will be far reaching. That 1t may
rend the historic Hamilton club asun.
der is predicted today in many quar-.
ters Lorimer is not only member of
the club but n large proportion of It's
membership Is composed OF Lorimer
friends and followers. Wholesale res.
ignations and the probable formation
OF a new club is forecasted today.
Editorially the morning papers com
mend Colonel Roosevelt except the
Inter-Ocean which is friendly 20 LO"i
mer.
Concluding his speech las: night
Roosevelt said; my friends, ask
you men of Illinois that your purify
your politics; that you hold account.
able the scoundrel. great or small who
has been guilty of corruption; that
you insist on cleanliness in public life
and l ask 1t in your name and for
your sakes. i ask 1t for the sake oil
American people and l ask 1t for the
sake of all nations of the world that
their hope may not be dim and that
they may continue to cherish with
zeal the possibility of having gov
ernment or, by and for the people, thai
shall remain also the government ol
Justice and OF government OF honesty
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Sept. "a
plea OF insanity will Dro badly be relied