The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-06
BROWNE MUST
TELL HIS STORY
Man Who Is Under Indictment
Must Testify Before Senate >.
Committee

Chicago. Oct. 6.-Minority Leader
Lee O'Neil Browne. who is under in
dictment in connection with the elec-
tion Of Senator William Lorimer is
to submit to the ordeal Of being ask
ed questions before the Lorimer in
vestigating committee. This decision
was made today by the United States
senators. who are inquiring into the
motives of legislators. who voted for
the junior senator. The same ruling
was made in regard to State Senator
John Broderick and Representative
Robert E. Wilson, both Of whom are
under indictment.
Neither Browne nor Broderick, who
were on the stand for a few moments
today, were questioned beyond a
formal request for their names, on
the plea of Attorney Thomas Dawson.
counsel for each, that he wished to
confer with his associate counsel be-
fore advising his clients what course
to pursue. The committee reluctant
ly granted counsel until tomorrow
morning to decide his course and the
witnesses will then be under the ne
cessity of answering the interroga-
tories or pleading constitutional
privilege and declining to answer on
the ground that their words might be
self incriminative.
The committee has given no init
nation whether it would seek to force
an answer under those circumstances
or respect the silence Of the witness
and permit the questions to remain
unanswered.
Representative Daniel A. Donahue,
a Democrat from Bloomington. testi-
fed today that he did not vote for
Senator Lorimer.
Donahue said he had no recollec-
tion of having said to Representative
Groves that he believed money had
been used in the election of Senator
LOrimer, although he said he had
heard rumors of the use of money.
II was asked to vote for Mr.. Lori
mer." said Donahue. but refused.
No offer of money or any other thing
was made to me and no intimation
was ever given to me that could
profit by SO voting"
Katherine A. Woods of East st. Louis
to rebut testimony Of Representative
Charles A. White. Miss Woods de-
clared that in the fall Of 1909 White
took her to dinner and told her that
he was writing history Of his life
and the occurrences in the legisla-
ture and expected to make a fortune
out of it and that Lorimer and his
bunch" would have to pay him
enough to keep him for life or he
would make it hot for Lorimer and
his friends.
The witness said that White told
her he was going to run for congress
and that he had spent $4,000 on his
history and that he did not fear re-
suits for he had influential friends.
Her testimony was in direct contra
diction to what White said on the
stand.
William H. Sturmer, assistant man
ager of the Briggs hotel which is
Brownies headquarters in Chicago,
told of threats which he said White
had made to falsely say that he had
been bribed to vote for Senator Lori
mer and so compel Senator Lorimer
and his friends to enrich him.
Sturmer testified that White was
drunk at the time and that Zentner
had ben drinking all the evening be-
fore the alleged threat Of. White was
made.
Fred Zenter related the same cir
cumstance and conversation and al
SO gave practically word for word the
testimony he had previously given in
detailing the conversation. Senator
Frazier cross-examined Zenter.
"You had been drinking all the
evening had you?" he asked.
"Yes, SIR" was the reply.
"Were you gentlemanly drunk al
the timer
The answer was inaudible.
white was even more drunk than
you"
Eyes, SIR" replied the witness.
! "Then you can say that White was
very drunk and that you were reason
ably drunk
Eyes, sir" said Zenter.
Zenter said that ne, White and
Browne took two lake trips together
and had returned from one the morn
ing before the conversation which
was August 10, 1909.
| Neither Sturmer nor Zenter in.
formed Browne Of Whites words un-
til after Whites confession was pub.
lished.