The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-25
Editor Of aecord-Herald Spends ths
Day on Witness Stand and Helps
To Unseat Senator
Lorimer.
ONE FROM ROOSEVELT
All Of His Correspondence and TeIo-.
grams Relative to the Question
VIII Be Given to
Committee.
[Gate City Leased Wire Service !

lTate City Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Three
United States senators, Root (rep., Nj
Yo, LaFollette( rep, Wis.,, and Gull
lom (rep., Illl, and Col. Theodorei
Roosevelt will have the pleasure next
week of having letters addressed toi
them and their replies thereto con-,
cerning the 100000 Lorimer "sluslr.
fund.- revealed to public gaze
1t was all arranged this afternoons
at the session of the senate Lorimer
Investigating committee. H. H. Kohl
saat, publisher and editor Of the Chi
cago RecordHerald, was on the stand
nearly all day. 1t was he who set
afioat the story of Edward Hines, al
legged request to Clarence 8. Funk.
for $4,000 donation from the har-!
vester trust, of which Funk is gener-
al manager. to reimburse those whom
he said had hurriedly raised the "sIush
| fund.-
Il sent the information to Senator
Root at the request of Walter Fisher,
now secretary of the interior depart
ment, and Aired Baker, said Kohl
saat, but didn't give Funk's name.
Mr.. Root wrote letter, two or
three months after his anti-Lorimer
speech in the senate last February,
asking if my informant could not be
induced to testify in Washington
answered that 1t was impossible. Late
in February Senator LaFollette sent
several kilograms urging me to give
. my on a. c1,, ,ef,
fund story. was obliged to decline
Did you write to any other sem
ators?' he was asked.
"Yes, sent letter telling the
story, without Mr. Funk's name, to
Senator Cullom.'
Judge Hanecy, Lorimer's counsel.
Immediately asked Kohlsaat to file
with the committee the originals or
: copits of all letters and kilograms he
received. He agreed to do SO.
Have you had any correspondence
with Colonel Roosevelt on this SUBJ
iect?" asked Hanecy
Il received a letter from the coll
onel," said Kohlsaat, "in which he
stated that his refusal to attend the
Hamilton club dinner, in Chicago.
| August II, 1910, when he heard that
Lorimer would be there, was due
largely to the information l had given
him.
Judge Hanecy demanded that this
letter be produced
| "If there is no private matter in it
| WILL" answered Kohlsaat Hanecy
| threatened to invoke the power of the
committee if Kohlsaat did not Haneoy
finally agreed to have the letter SUBJ
mitted to any member of the commit
tee who could decide which parts
n should be made public. Kohlsaat gave
a half way consent to this,
Hanecy questioned Kohlsaat vieor-
ously about certain libel suits said to
have been instituted against Kohlsaat
and his paper by Lorimer.
Don't you know" said Hanecy,
that those suits We're dismissed be-
cause Speaker Cannon and ex-Con-
gressman Tawney gave Lorimer to
| understand that unless he withdrew
the libel suits the Record-HeralL
| would not support Roosevelt in his
presidential campatgn?''
That is too absurd to answer OBJ
served Kohlsaat.
AT one stage Kohlsaat said that the
"irridesecent dream of fourteen
foot waterway channel from Chicago
to the gulf, strongly favored by Lori
mer, was dead. Hanecy added that
Governor Deneen's plan to substitute
power development for the deep wat
erway in Illinois was also dead.