The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-01
Illinois Member of Assembly is Loud In Making
 Public Charges
SENATOR LOR|MER SAID ID
 BE MIXED UP IN AFFAIR
Official Investigation Will Probably He Made By Illinois Legislature and By the Senate of the
 United States

Chicago. April 3o-(Special. .l--ss and jury investigation of the sweeping dnarges of graft and corruption made sainst the Forty-sixth general assembly by Charles A. White a democratic member from St Clair county. eliminating in the confession that he received 5000 as & oribe for voting for United States Sen ator William E. Lorimer, will be under taken Monday morning A special grand jury will convene at that time and inn mediately White will be taken before 1t. He will repeat under oath the sen sational story he detailed to States At torney John E. Wayman today of the ev- istence of a pool of grafters banded .ev gether to sell legislation. inns,
 High offices and protection &gains S' hostile enactment on one hand and tt~ levy blackmail through the introduction of regulators" on the other are enlarged.
 According to his sworn confession White voted for Lorimer after having received 5000 in three payments for his part in sending Lorimer to the United States Senate, and received s900 more as his share of the miscellaneous corruption fund.
 Names and dates were given in every detail, dragging into the scandal poll ticians of high degree in both great par ties. Some were named as having guilty knowledge of the situation others as ac- tive participants in the wholesale graft Ing. All will be summoned for examina- ton before the grand jury. Three other inquiries are scheduled to follow.
 Simultaneous with the sitting Of the Cook county special grand jury Monday, K ss'zs3gamon county Maf nj iury will
 at Springfield. States Attorney W&6rd Burke of Springfield has signi- aed his intention of forcing the investiga- ton there.
 In addition to the criminal inquiries official investigations likely will be insti- tuted by the United States Senate and the lower house of the Illinois legislature. Both are judges of the conduct of their members The former Is in session. Pre- cedent practically assures action as the regularity and legality of the election of a membey has been challenged. Although the Illinois general assembly has ad- journ ed Governor Deneen may convene it in special session. While the specific incidents recited by White may have become known to Governor Deneen com paratively recently. the burden of his ac- cusations is an old story to the execu- tive
 That 5000 per vote was the market price for supporting Lorimer was repeated from the house tops during the deadlock that preceded his election and the generally understood, but improved, existence of a circle of legislation peddlers kept Gov Al. kill off regulators through exercise of his veto power Only few months ago list of undesirable legislators was formulated, and in discussing them the Deneen lieutenants were wont to say of this one or that one: Why, his price is so much.'.
 On the day Lorimer was named George w. English. a democratic member from Vienna, in a speech on the floor of the House charged that. his colleagues had sold out their party He directed his bit- ing, stinging denunciation at some of the men named by White as fellow recipients of bribes, and was challenged by Lee O Bell Browne, the democratic leader from Ottawa. who is named by White as the man who paid him. Browne declared that to stand by Stringer, the minority can didate for sentimental reasons. and there- by lose opportunity to aid in determining whether Lorimer or Hopkins should go to the Senate was like attempting to cash dream"
 Dreams cannot be cashed on the floor of the House. thundered English. What can be cashed? Us it votes? You will be asked to explain your vote to your con- stituents. Will you tell them the truth? If you do your people will retire you to oblivion. as they should"
 Browne. who had come to Chicago to speak tonight at banquet. professed sur prise and averred that he could produce written proof that White was seeking to blackmal him; Senator Lorimer de- clsred it part of conspiracy to wreck two financial institutions he is starting; Representative Robert Wilson, who White said accepted ss0o from the corruption jack pot" affirmed White had been paid by Lorimer's enemies to make the affi- davit. while the smaller fry in the scan dal contented themselves with denounc- ing if as a lie