Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-01
Says Big Sum Was Not |
Raised to Lobby for Tar
iff and Interests Did Not
Help Elect Lorimer.
TAKES ISSUE WITH
OTHER WITNESSES |
Extent Of His Denial OF
Statements Sworn to Be-
fore Committee Leads to,
Talk of Perjury.

Washington. d. c., June 3o.-Edwsr6,
Hines of Chicago was subjected today
to rigid cross examination by John
H. Marble, attorney for the senate IN
vestigating committee.
Mr.. Hines contradicted the sworn
testimony by President Herman H. K.
Hetler Of the Heller Lumber companSl
|of Chicago, that Hines had boasted
to him of having personally elected
Lorimer. He denied that the lumber
interests raised big sum to lobby for
tariff legislation in 1909, or that tho
lumber interests had anything to do
with the LOrimer election.
Mr.. Hines declared that he Wae
absolutely certain" he was not mis-
taken about his testimony that former
Senator Aldrich stated to him the
president was anxious to have Mr..
Lorimer elected. Asked about q
denial of this from the white house,
after his testimony as Springfield, Mr..
Hines merely said that such dental
had never been called to his at-
tention"
The white house statement IN uuG1.
ton, copies .of which were ro.iSaued
1 last night. concluded AZ follows:
| The statementeb Mr. Hines that
| the president was anxious for and was
urging the election Of Mr.. Lorimer u
| wholly unfounded"
With his pockets bulging with docu-
ments, Edward Hines. the millionaire
Chicago lumberman. who is charged
with having expressed knowledge Of =
Lorimer election fund, today resumed
the witness stand before the senate
committee Investigating the election
of Senator Lorimer.
Mr.. Hines counsel sought to show
by these papers that Mr.. Hines was
not in Chicago last February about tho
time Clarence s.. Funk. general man
ager OF the International Harvester
company, claims Mr.. Hines, called upon
him to refresh his memory in regard TO
| the formers Union League club con-
|yersation in which Mr.. Funk testified
Mr.. Hines asked him to contr1butoi
$4,000 to reimburse 100000 Lori,
mer election fund.
Bills for service rendered him ct 81
Washington hotel for the month pre-
ceeding March 4, were presented. The
first bill was for Ave days. amounting
=
to $355,50.
"Better read the items!' p suggested
eSnator Kern. The largest itAm was,
$3.50 cash. Another bill was for moro
than 5000.
wasn't 1t possible as far 40 those
bills are concerned for you 70 have
been absent from the city and for your
wife to have remained alone at the
hotel?' asked Senator Jones.
"Yes sir. went to Philadelphia once
but never to Chicago"
The witness produced a plat Of the,
Chicago river, over the treatment OF
which there Is said to have besn 81
lcontroversary between the Internar
itional Harvester company. on one
side, and Senator Lorimer. Mr.. Hinest
and others on the other side.
Cross-examinated by Attorney Mar.
| BILE for the committee, Mr.. Hines sai6
at the exact moment Senator Lorfmer
was elected he (Hines) was at the;
Union League club at Chicago. toles
phonipg the Associated Press there to
/ ascertain the result Of the ballotin8
at Springfield The witness could not
definitely fix the hour, saying 1t was;
between 1880 and p. m. He related.
how he was told that the voting was
on at Springfield, that Mr. Lorimer had
103 votes and finally, after he held
the wire moment, came the flash that
Senator Lorimer was elected.
Perjury Prosecution Hinted.
Intimation that prosecution Of GER,
tain witnesses for perjury would grow
out Of the senate investigation OF tho
election of Senator Lorimer was forth
| corning during the examination OF
of Edward Hines, the Chicago lumber
man. Mr. Hines fatty contradicted
many statements of previous witnesses
/, and the situation aroused Senator
Kenyon of Iowa.
| Now there ought to be prosecutions
| for perjury right here" he exclaimed.
| He did not indicate whom he would
have indicted, but his remark created
a profound impression.
/ Mr.. Hines was on the stand all day
yesterday. His examination was not
| concluded when the committee adj
4 journed until today.
He gave a detailed statement that
| President Taft, former Senator Aid.
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