The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-02
WHITE RESUMES HIS CORRUPTION STORY Distribution of Jackpot" Is
 Described GOT RAILROAD PASS Asserts Lee O'Neil Browne First Asked Him to Vote for Lorimer
 and Tells of Secret Con-
 ference in a Room
GOT RAILROAD PASS

| Washington, August 1.-Charles A. White the confessed bribe taker of the I illinois legislature, was on the witness stand before the Senate Lorimer commit
 tee all day. telling his tale of corruption. | V len the committee adjourned until tor
 morrow his story had not been completed. l Whites testimony followed in outline that given at the first I,orimer investiga-
 rion by the Senate. Attorney Marble for the committee allowed the witness, how ever, to tell many details not mentioned | in that hearing, but published in White s so-ca1led confession in the Chicago Tribune
 The distribution, of the jackpot" or general corruption fund for legislators was described. White again told of the meeting at a St. Louis hotel on July To, 1909. The witness explained that Rep resentative Michael Luke complained to him in the hotel lobby that the ssoo being gwen to each member as his share of the l jackpot" was not enough. It was a' i this time. White said, Luke spoke oi White and others receiving $1OOo each for voting for Lorimer.
 | T made my deal direct with Lorimer, White quoted Luke as. saying. White told how Wilson called Repre- sentative Henry A. Shephard from the
 room, in which all the representatives had
 been walking into the bathroom and then
 after Shephard came out how he himself
 was called into the bathroom by Repre-
 sentative Robert E. Wilson. As Wilson
 handed White s9O0, White testified today,
 Wilson said;
 There is all of it. am glad to be re- | ieved of it.
 l Correspondence between Lee O'Neill
 Browne, the democratic leader in the llli-
 nois legislature who is accused of giving
 White the Lorimer bribe money, was in 1 troduced in evidence.
 In one of the letters written just be-
 fore the legislature met, Browne put
 White wise, as to where he could get
 railroad and Pullman passes. l While committeeman listened with sur
 prise White rattled off the list of rail- road, Pullman and telegraph passes he held as member Of the leg1sla- ture
 Did they all send passes:" inquired | Senator Jones.
 No, the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Chic d.dp' issue p5 ases.' Did the passes come by request or
 otherwise?" asked Chairman Dillingham;.
 By Request and Without By request. and without; by mall, and | by messengers"
 He explained that he received an HI
 nois Central pass with the request that | in turn he vote flor senate bill 3l3 which
 he said was personal injury bill" Who first asked you to vote for Lori
 mer?"' asked Attorney Marble at the | afternoon session.
 | Lee O'Neil Browne responded White quickly. This was on May 24, 1909, or two days before Lorimers election, the wit
 ness said Browne took White from the latters room, he said, in which Otis and Sidney Marlborough were sleeping that | night.
 1 Browne asked me- said White, If ]
 could vote for a republican. I replied | that I could vote for anything. He asked
 me if could vote for Lorimer and l told
 him I could. He wanted to know If he
 could depend upon me. told him yes. l I asked him if Naylor would vote for
 Lorimer and he said no; Morris, and
 he said yes; Fay, and he said no; Will son. yes: Arbrahams. yes: McGuire yes | He told me that it was strictly under
 my hat and there would be no chicken feed,' either. Some one knocked on | the door. He put me in the bathroom. | I could not hear what was said but l thought I heard Burkmeyers voice. When came out Browne cautioned me | to keep quiet; that he was suspicious
 of a place above called Joliet MT. Marble asked White why he l voted for Lorimer.
 Well. I did it to obtain what I thought would be information that conld use afterwards" replied White. l Use how?'
 For the interest of the public | "In what way?
 1 By exposure,
 The next day, White said. Browne l told him he was to get 5000 In cash
 for voting for Lorimer. 1 White told how he voted for Lori mer. was introduced to Lorimer In the speaker's room, and how Representa- 1 tive Wilson denounced Representative
 Murphy beeause Murphy had gone | back on us,' and did not vote for Lori mer
 1 "A few days before the adjourn | ment,' continued White, "T asked Browne for some money, telling him 1 I needed it. He gave me $100 of the St. Nicholas hotel. I afterwards gavs l it back to him because it had pencil
 marks all over it. I told him I did not
 want to be seen at that time with such large bill. He got it changed and l asked me to take a walk with him. thought fellow who saw Browne get the bill changed was following us Browne said he guessed he had a right to pay me money if he wanted to-" Most of Whites testimony was the same as given at the first inquiry. |
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