The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-02
.LOR|NER CASE
IS POSTPONED.
Senate Committee Takes a Re-
cess Until July 13; Will Not
Go to Chicago.
TESTIMONY OF HINES
FINDS TWO SUPPORTERS
Stenographer and Lumber
Dealer C0rrObOrate Some
Disputed Statements.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July AFTER hear
ing few witnesses, suggested by Ed
ward Hines, who played disputed part
In the election of Senator Lorimer, the
senate committee investigating that
election today took recess until
Thursday, July 13. Instead of meeting
in Chicago, as previously planned. the
committee will continue its sessions
here indefinitely. Members expressed a
desire to remain here during the ses~
sion Of congress, If possible.
Chairman Dillingham; turned over to
the attorneys for publication in the
record copies of the kilograms sent to
Hines by Lorimer while in the house
or senate. They had been furnished by
the sergeant alarms of the respective
bodies and were not made public.
The witnesses were produced in an
effort TO substantIate Mr.. Hines g YER
sions of his telephone conversations
ator Gorimer IS election and of his con-
versation with Clarence S. Funk, gen
eral manager of the international fIar-
vester company. at the Union League
club shortly after that election
Senator Lorimer and his counsel,
Elbridge Hanecy, departed this after
noon for Chicago.
Corroborate Hines.
Miss Frances Carroll, telephone oper.
ator in the Office of the Edward Hines
Lumber company, Chicago. and Fred
Carney Of the Carney Lumber company,
Marinette. Wis, were leading witnesses
today before the Lorimer investigating
committee.
Both corroborated portions Of testl-
mony given by Edward Hines of Chi.
cago. The committee, having in view
recess next week, excused subject to
call. the three detectives who Clarence
s. Funk, general manager of the In
ternatlonal company, said were shadow.
ing him.
Miss Carroll declared she overheard
the long distance talk Mr. Hines held
with Springfield on the day Lorimer
was elected and repeated the conver~
sation substantially as Hines had done,
On cross examination, however, she
was unable TO recall the date or sub
stance of any other long distance con.
versation Mr.. Hines had held in the
ten years she had been In his employ
ment.
Carney's testimony agreed with
Hines description of how Funk ap-
preached him at the Union League club.
ii was in this conversation that Funk
declared Hines asked him to contrl-
butte to Lorimer election fund, where
as Hines testified that Funk asked for
the privilege of contributing to such a
fund Mr. Carney said he heard moth
ing of the conversation.
Miss Carroll declared that she had
overheard the conversation between
Governor Deneeh and Mr. Hines and
detailed it practically us Mr.. Hines had
described it. She denied that Mr.. Hines
said he would come to Springfield with
all the money needed to elect Lorimer,
as others have testified.
Miss Carroll was questioned at length
regarding Mr.. Hines conversation with
Mr. Deneen,
''Can you say why you remember
Farrar.
"Well. as it was the first time had
ever heard Governor Deneen on the
wire. I hstened'
The witness could not recall any of
the eight long distance ur eighty odd
local calls through her exchange on
that day. She could not remember
what kind of day May 26 was. She
testified that the first time her atten
tlon was directed to the conversation
was when "Mr. Cook testified before
the Helm committee twenty-three
months afterward,
Miss Carroll explained that she was
not personally acquainted with the
Lorlmers, but was communicant at
the church in which Mrs. Lorimer sang.
Mr., Carney testified that he did not
know it was Funk who talked to him
at the Union League club on May 27, |
1909, but that Hines, after the con
ersation, told him it was Funk.
Two band concerts today at Saltair