The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
TESTIMONY OF
 WHITE IS ENDED HeaTsay Evidence Is Barred By Chairman Burrows .BECKEMEYER TEST|F|ES NEXT HoIstIaw Will Give Testimony After Beckemeyer and States Attorney
 Burke Will Be on Hand
 to Take Notes

Chicago, Sept. 27.-Direct and cross examination of State Representative Charles A. White, the principal witness in support of the charges that the elec- by corrupt methods, was completed to- day before the senatorial Investigating committee. In today's session Senator Julius c. Burrows of Michigan, chair man of the committed, gave a ruling barring what was termed as hearsay evi- dence from the proceedings.
 This ruling was hailed as a material advantage by the friends of Senator Lorimer and marked the completion oi exhaustive legal arguments by counsel opposed to and in favor of the junior senator from Illinois.
 The ruling was specifically upon the right of the witness, Representative White, to relate conversations which he asserted he had had with Representative Joseph c. Clark of vandalia, in which White said Clark admitted that he, too was bribed to vote for Senator Lorimer
 Later in the session the same ruling was invoked to bar the manuscript story of Whites allegation of experiences in the forty-sixth general assembly, which detailed his assertions of the bribery of himself and other legislators In the Lori mer election.
 May Re Recalled
 In closing his direct examination of White, Attorney Austrian asked leave to summon him again to the witness stand should occasion arise, and the privilege was granted by the committee. At the completion of his -examina- ton of White, Attorney Hanecy made a like request and was accorded the same privilege. The cross-examination dealt primarily with letters, messages and con versations of White and a number of letters to Minority Leader Browne from White, and also missives from the wit ness to Senator Loriner were read into the record.
 The latter part of the cross-examina- tion was devoted to an analysis of ths testimony scf Whtte in the two trials o Minority Leader Browne on the charge of bribery fiji an effort to establisl ground for impeaching the present testi mony of White by witnesses who testi fled in the other trials
 The questioning of the witness on wha he had said in these trials was objected to repeatedly by Attorney Austrian, and the necessity of the questions of impeach- ment purposes was argued repeatedly by Attorney Hanecy.
 The witness said he could not remem- Der just what questions were asked him or what answers he gave.
 White Denies Statements
 White denied statements attributed to witnesses in the Browne trial relative to his having expressed a determination to force Senator Isorimer and his friends to contribute much money to him on a threat of declaring falsely that he was bribed to vote for the senator.
 Senator James B. Frazier, democrat, of Tennessee, arrived here late in the day, prepared to take his seat with his col leagues of the Senate when the session convenes tomorrow.
 It is expected that Representative H J. C.. Beckemeyer, who has also declared that he was bribed in the senatorial cleo tion, will be the first witness tomorrow His examination Is not expected to oc- cupy as much time as Whites.
 Beckemeyer is to be followed on the stand by State Senator Holstlaw of Tuka' who is credited with having voted for Senator Lorimer and with having con fessed that he, was paid s2500 for his vote. Holstlaw has not testified in any trial and his testimony will be listened to by States Attorney Edmund Burke of Springfield, who depends on the Iuka man as the principal witness against State Senator Frederick, now under in- dictment for bribery.
 CrOss-E Ex animation
 Attorney Hancey, in his cross exam ination of Representative White, ques- tioned him closely concerning his ac- auaintance with Miss Catherine Woods of East St. Louis one of the witnesses In the second trial of Minority Leader Browne White admitted that he had taken the young woman to the thea tre and to dinner, but denied that he had told her he was writing a his tory of his experiences in the legisla- ture which would make the 'Lorimer bunch" pay him enough to keep him comfortable for life or he would make 1t hot for them.
 He also denied that he had ever made similar statements to William Stormef of the Briggs House, Chicago, and an- other friend, or that he had told them that he would get a large amount of money without working for 1t by threat ening to declare that he had been bribed. He also denied that before the election of Senator Lorimer he voiced to James B. Joy a Springfield saloon keeper. similar expressions of getting money from friends of Senator Lorimer by saying that he had been bribed.
 Other names used in the questions on which impeachment testimony is to be based were:
 Thomas Curran, also representative; William N. Rossell, labor union of ficial, and George Gloss. a Chicago mo- torman.
 Attorney Hanecy expects to call these persons as witnesses to attack the testimony of White and as he informed d Chairman Burrows, "to show the kind and character of the man" who made the charges against the validity of Sem ator Lorimer's election.