The Washington times., 1911-01-13
Making Every Effort to
Secure Votes for the
Senator.
DOUBLE DEALING
is NOW ALLEGED
Said to Have Made Advances to
Western and Southern Fair
Boomers.

Facing defeat in the Senate by a large
margin friends of Senator Lorimer have
transferred their operations to the
House in desperate effort to head Off a
vote to declare Mr.. Lorimer's seat va
cant. and doing so, according to several
members of the House, they have been
discovered in double dealing and trick
cry.
Agents of Senator LorImer who have
heretofore confined their operations to
the Senate. went over to the House a
day or two ago and approached men,
bers of the Louisiana delegation with a
proposition looking to the delivery of
the Illinois delegation in favor of send
Ing the Panama canal exposition to New
Orleans in return for which the Lou
isiana delegation was called upon to
deliver the votes of Mississippi valley
Senators against motion to declare
Senator Lorimer's seat vacant.
Playing Give and Take.
The Lorimer agents were still urging
this proposition on the Louisiana delega-
ton when a Southern Democrat discov-
cred that an identical proposition had
been made to the California delegation.
In other words, the Illinois vote had
also been promised in support of the
Panama canal exposition for San Fran
cisco, in return for which the San Fran
cisco boomers were asked to deliver
the votes of Pacific coast aud Rocky
Mountain Senators against motion to
unseat Senator Lorimer.
comparison of notes between the
boomers of both New Orleans and San
Francisco quickly disclosed the fact
that they were being made the victims
OF double dealing.
The result has been that Senator Lori
ner's case has been injured irreparabIy,
so far as members OF the House have
any influence with their Senators.
Regarded As Weakness.
The willingness of Senator Lorimer's
agents TO 60 to this extreme Is gem
orally regarded in the House as a sure
sign that the Senator realizes that there
is an overwhelming sentiment against
him in the Senate, and that his seat
can be saved only by desperate meas
ures.
That Senator LOrimer can muster only
a third of the votes in the Senate is
the assertion made by those who have
been giving careful attention to the sit
uadon. 1t was asserted recently in
Senator Lorimer's newspaper In Chica-
go that he would get fifty votes. But
inquiries by those on the anti-Lorimer
side of the situation disclose a different
state OF things.
One canvass shows that Senator Lori
mer will get only thirty-three votes in
the Senate. This would be a sufficient
number to save him from expulsion, as
Il twO-thirds vote Is required to expeL
At the same time, 1t would insure the
passage by those opposed to him of a
resolution holding that he was not law
fully elected.
Division of Votes.
OF the thIrty-three votes which the
in question gives to Senator
Lorimer, twenty-eight are Republicans
and five Democrats.
The Senate is looking forward with
keen interest to the speeches which will
be made next week. Senator Burrows
Is expected to speak then and put in
the resolution which the majority will
support. Senator Borah's speech ad-
verse to Lorimer Is expected to be a
effort. The Idaho Senator has
spent a great amount Of time on the
testimony and on a study of the law in
volved. Senator Baileys ro-Lorimer
speech. the time of which is s1ot yet an
is also awaited with great in |
terest.