Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-05-28
SENATOR LOR|MER
DEFENDS HIMSELF
Chicago Tribune Lied and
Knew It Lied He
Says
PLOT 70 KILL NEW BANK
Concocted With Deliberate
Purpose to Destroy
Venture.

dSnlngtOn, May 2S.-StrenuOuS de-
MIA Of the charge that he had obtained
his seat in the United States senate
through bribery and corruption was
made before that body today by Will
lam Lorimer Of Illinois. His state
ment had been eagerly awaited by his
colleagues, and the senate was crowd
ed. Concluding, MI Lorimer offered
a resolution calling for a senatorial
investigation Of the charges against
him.
Senator Lorimer with increasing
paper lied and it knew it lied" in
charging that money was used to pur-
chase his election Not one dollar
was paid a single member of the gen
eral assembly for his vote for mel"
he declared.
Mr. LOrimer detailed the facts of
the publication in the Chicago Trib-
une on April l, of the story over the
signature of Charles A. White a men,
Der of the Illinois legislature in which
it was alleged thai Mr.. Lorimer had
secured a seat in the senate through
bribery and corruption.
The story" he said, was timed and
published with the deliberate purpose
to destroye a new banking associa-
ton in Chicago which | have been or
ganizing with some of my friends"
Mr.. Lorimer defended Lee O'Neil
Browne, the Democratic leader of the
Illinois House of Representatives
through whom it was alleged the
bribes passed as entirely above such
proceedings. He declared that Medill
Mccormick of the Tribune, had de-
clared that the bank never should open
and also asserted that White did not
write the story published, but, 1T was
the work of a trained newspaper hand,
out of lies, when it is thought neces-
s.s'y to blacken the character of one
whom the newspapers cannot con-
troll" He asserted that Represen-
tatives Link and Beckmeyer had not
made confessions as had been charg-
ed, but on the contrary said: The
charges stand as they stood April 30,
uncorroborated lies of the Tribune,
supposed only by the bought sig
nature of their weak tool, White.
Mr.. Lorimer traced his breach with
Wy hn
with personally advising as the prepa
ration of the White story, largely to
the difference of opinion between the
two as to the wisdom of depending up
on the action by the national govern
ment on the twenty million dollars
pledged by the state toward deeI
waterway to the Gulf, project which
the governor favored and he opposed
He said: "The governor Joined in thi:
campaign of slander because he saw
an opportunity to throw dust in thu
eyes of the people. He used the con
spiracy to defeat those who stood fol
federal cooperation in eXpendinE
twenty million dollars, and to secure
control of the next legislature. VIII,
{ he persists in his efforts to get contro
I of twenty million dollars, when HI
well knows that it in itself is not sui
ficient to construct a waterway, is
mystery | cannot fathom." Conclud
ing, Mr.. Lorimer said the Tribune haC
logged him all these years because i
had not been able to lash him int
subsection.
Resolution Referred.
Washington, May Ex-senator Lori
mer's resolution for investigation o
his election was referred under tn
rules to the committee on contingen
expenses.