The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-01
WHITE RETELLS LOR|NER STORY Tries to Vindicate Much
 Questioned Character
REPORTER TESTIFIES
Phillips Tells How He Investigated So-Called White Confessional
 Chicago Mass Meeting Protests

| who. after running the gamut from street car conductor to member of the Illinois Legislature, confessed to receiving money
 to vote for William Lorimer for the United States Senate, today began to re- tell his story before the Senate I.orimer | committee. He was the first witness at the previous Lorimer investigation. | His examination Is expected to consume three or four days
 | White who is not more than 90 years old. brought to the witness stand large bundle of papers by which he hoped to place himself before the country in 3 better light than that under which he has rested since the Lorimer investigation started. He produced many testimonials of good character and ability from schools he had attended in his youth and from former employers. He described his ser vice at Springfield in 1906 as the legis- lative agent of street car men and his election to the Illinois house of represen- tatives while he was working as con ductor.
 Explaining that he wished to show the | source from which White obtained his food for thought, Attorney J. II. Marble, for the committed, asked the witness what he was reading at the time he was elected to the legislature. White men toned these:
 'Lawsons High Finance Exposure" magazine articles, which White character ized as "a pretty good piece of work.
 "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. "splen- did piece of work
 Four volumes of Roman history-"about the Carthagians. the Syrians and that class of stuf.'
 | Ingersolls complete works. .4 | Bryans "Commoner." | Taylors Life Pictures" l Appeal to Reason," a socialist publica- | ton.
 Various labor magazines and the daily newspapers of St. Louis. l The witness said that before he was elected to the legislature he heard of l several men who had taken bribes and l then exposed the bribers. He said he | told his supporters during the campaign that if he was elected he would expose any corruption at Springfield, but he de- nied saying he would take the bribe in so doing. ,~-sssf | Produces Letters
 
 i from Lee ONeill Browne, the demo- cratic leader, in reference to the organ l ization of the house when the com niittee adjourned until tomorrow.
 How he spent two or three weeks Investigating the so-called Charles A White legislative corruption confes- sion. was related by Edward o. Phil llips a reporter for the Chicago Tribune Chairman Dillingham; rebuked Attor- ney Hancey when the latter tried to get Phillips to say that Representative | Charles E. Luke of the Illinois )egisla- ture died of tuberculosis. Phillips said he understood he was taken off finally by pneumonia.
 1 We'll pneumonia is most always the last stage of all men, declared Hancey, unless they go off like they do In the Chicago Tribune"
 Attorney Haley, for the committee, asked the remark be stricken from I the record. Mir Hancey said he referred l to testimony that man was pushed down an elevator shaft in the Trlbune building, then shot.
 Senator Dillingham; ruled that the re- mark was uncalled for. MT Hancey insisted II showed one Tribune man died not because of pneu- monia. Attorney Marble for the com mittee, objected to that last remark and to MT. Hanceys treatment l .'Curbstone comment and clothes line l conversation" is what the Lorimer committee is largely listening to. ac- cording to q resolution presented to the Senate today. 1t was resolution adopted at a mass meeting at Chicago, which protested against what is called the "continued prosecution of Senator l William Lorimer
 Light on the whereabouts of Robert l. Shields insurance broker of Duluth Minn, and Superior. Wis, wanted as a witness to determine whether he rep l resented Edward Hines in Wisconsin senatorial fights and whether he was Iactive in the Lorlmer case was sought from his associate, James Il. Harper. 1 "I will give you my word said i Harper that as soon as l go to Duluth. 1 will get MT. Shields in u sanitarium and when he Is in condition l will have him before you. There is no reson why he should not come. He is of d very nervous temperament. works about F hours a day and then must rest up. know he was very much worn out the last time l saw him."
 He was doing business in Chicago for Edward Hines the middle of July suggested Senator Kern
 T think he was there on other bus iness," said MT. Harper