The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
.LOR|MER'S FRIENDS
 ALARMED
OPPOSITION TO ILLINOIS SEN AToR IS BECOMING VERY
 FORMIDABLE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l The
 position to William Lorimer in the United States Senate is becoming formidable and the friends of the Illinois senator. who has come to be known by his political admirers as the blend boss" are alarmed. Sen at0r Burton of Ohio, who has been making q careful study of the rec ord of the Lorimer case during the holidays. said today that he would probably take issue with the com mittCe on privileges and elections ls to the conclusions reached in its report on the Lorimer case. II Is asserted on very good authority that Senator Charles Dick of Ohio. will probably line up with Mir. Burton ia opposition to Lorimer.
 l. Is the belief ill Washington to- night that Senator Burton will lead he opposition to Lorimer. He may have the support of other Republi- can senators who are ordinarily classed as insurgents. Senator Bev- cridgc has been in a mental atti- uude that suggested to some of his friends that he might make a fight against the adoption of the report yiudica,ing Lorimer. As mem- her of the committee on privileges and el ctiOns he declined to sign the majority report. but reserved The announcement of his attitude toward the case until after he could have an opportunity to study the records. One by one the insurgents have been making known their op- position to Lorimer and it now seems inevitable that there will he q number of speeches in oppO- sition to the committees report.
 The announced attitude of Senator Barton makes it certain that the in>urgent senators will not have a monopoly of the opposition to LOT imer, and il begins to look as if the responsibility of leading the fight against the committees report would tCyolve upon Senator Burton, an administration senator, instead of upon Senator BeVeridge, insurgent and anti-administration The knowl- edge of this fact is not very comfort ing to the friends of Senator Lori mlr. Senator Burton has a way of thoroughly preparing himself for any fight he undertakes in congress, and his capacity to make trouble for the Illinois man is generally conceded. : natcr Burton discussed the Lori mer case today with other senators I'll the Republican side who will make a fight against the adoption of the committees report exOnerat- ing LoriIner.
 PreSid,n Taft has shown consid- craDle interest in the case. He has been going oyer the record and reading the testimony and some If his closest friends say that he is net pleased with the disclosures. The president realizes that the question If Senatcr Lorimer's eligibility is one for the senate to determine and that it is exclusively within the senate's control. But as the leader of his party he is said to feel that he has certain degree of responsibility in the matter and ne is watching the developments in the case with the keenest interest.
 1t is reported in Washington that >enatCr Root of New York has been giving close attention to the case during the holiday recess and hat he might oppose the adoption 0f the report of the majority of the committee, but the latest information on this point is that the senator from New York has yet given no sign of opposition, and it is the opinion of some of his friends who claim tG know how he feels about the matter that he will not appear against Lorimer.
 The senate leaders on the Re publican side are very much worried about the Lorimer case. They have realized from the beginning that it was a very unpleasant matter to deal with. They had hoped that the case might rest with the sub- mission to the senate of the re- port of the committee on privileges and elections, and it was with a view of thus putting a quietus on the matter that extraordinary efforts were put forward to secure unani- | nous report by the committed