Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-26
Chairman Demands Pun
ishment of Three for
Contempt.
ARGUMENTS ARE ON
Attorney for TiIden Claims
Subpoenas Were Not
Properly Signed.

Springfield. Ill, April 26.-In the
senate this morning chairman Helm
moved that the bribery committees
report be adopted. Attorneys for
Tilden, Cummings, and Benedict
we're present. Attorney Healy of the
bribery committee. opened the argu-
ments. He referred to witnesses
failing to respond to the committees
subpoenas.
WITHIN RIGHTS.
He quoted statutes showing the
authority of he senate in the mat
ter and the decisions upholding these
statutes. He referred to the provi-
sions OF the federal constitution and
the bill OF rights of Illinois giving
witnesses immunity from unreason-
able search and seizure and declared
the committee had no intention to vi
olate these guarantees.
ATTORNEY ANSWERS.
Judge Sears, OF Chicago, repre-
senting Tilden. Benedict, and Cum
cIared the committee report was par
tial and misleading and could, there
fore, not be passed upon intelligent
ly by the senate.
NEVER REFUSED TO TALK.
Sears declared Tilden never re-
fused to take the stand and is now
ready 10 testify before the commit
tee He contended Tilden felt be
had a constitutional right to refuse
to turn over to the committee his
pefsdra4 cfrecKffgs -sccou5s kIFk7fd pa
pers. Still. he said. Tide was will
ing that one member of the commit
lee examine these matters.
FUNK's TALE GOSSIP
Sears branded Funk's testimony
as a lot of gossip. What Tilden said
on the witness stand" said Sears.
was gospel truth. What Funk said
was merely gossip" The senate
took a recess until this afternoon.
NOT PROPERLY SIGNED.
All subpoenas issued by bribery
committee have been signed by
Chairman Helm. The state rules, it
is now discovered, direct that the
subpoenas be signed by the presi-
dent of the senate. Judge Sears will
probably bring out this point when
he resumes his argument.
TWO STAR WITNESSES.
Springfield, Ill, April 26.-W. H.
Cook. an official of the Virginia and
Rainey Lake Lumber company of Du-
luth, MINI. and c. F. Wiehe, brother
in-law of the Edward Hines. were the
star witnesses before the senate brib-
cry investigating committee yesterday.
Wiehe admitted in his testimony that
Hines sent him on a midnight mission
10 the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago
TO have Cook and William OBrien, an
other Minnesota lumberman, evade
Cook county process servers at the
time the Lorimer scandal first became
public in May, 1910.
FOLLOWED COOK.
Wiehe's testimony followed that of
Cook Cook had declared that he was
in a room al the Grand Pacific hotel in
Chicago May % 1909 with William
O'Brien and Edward Hines. when Hines
telephoned to some one called Cover
nor at Springfield. Cook said that
Hines telephoned TO the governor 4
that he (Hinesl was ready To take the T.
next train to Springfield with all the
money necessary to effect Lorimers /
election. The election occurred later /
on that day.
NJ r. Coan. investigating for the I
committee testified that William .
O'Brien in Duluth within the past week i.
had told him practically the same story .
as Cook. only differing in that O'Brien 4
got the impression that former Cover
nor Richard Yates was on the Spring 1
field end of the telephone when Hines
was talking Wiehe on cross examina-
tion testified that Hines was with
O'Brien and Cook at the Grand Pacific
hotel on the date named.
GOVERNORS DENY.
Following the testimony both Cover
nor Deneen and former Governor Yates
denied that either had ever had any
such conversation with Hines as that
related by Cook.
Wiehe said that although he was not
present in the room when Hines got
The Springfield call. he believed Hines
talked with William Lorimer from the !
hotel II
Wiehe testified that on May 90, 1909,
Hines returned TO Chicago from Wash
inston at s:3o o'clock in the morning
and went direct to the Continental and j
Commercial National bank. Wiehe
said thG; he arranged for Hines 10 !
meet Cook and O'Brien at the Grand :