The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-20
TAFI'S HAND
 IN ELECTION
ALDRIcH WILL TELE LoRiMER coMMITTEE~oF THE ADMIN
 ASPIRATION PART.
In the Election of Lormer and Just What Part Was Played in That Celebrated Fight for
 Senate Seat.


 Washington, July 19.-Whether the Taft administration wanted Lorimer elected to succeed Hopkins as Ilii- nois' senator and whether former Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island then the republican senate leader, was the means through which the wish was conveyed to Edward Hines, the lum- herman, probably will be developed tomorrow.
 MT. Aldrich arrived in Washington tonight and is ready 10 appear betore the Lorimer committee at once to explain his alleged activities in ccn- nection with the Illinois senatorial election. Hines has testified that he waited until midnight at the Wash ington home of Senator AldiIch while the latter, at the White House, talked over the Illinois senatorial deadlock with President Taft. At the con clusion of the conference. Hines said he was told by Mir. Aldrich that the president wanted MT, Lorimer elect ed.
 Mir. Hines has sought to prove that his own energies were directed to- result of that alleged conference at the White House and he declared he believed he held the commission of the administration.
 Following Mir. Hines testimony, a statement of the presidents attitude toward the Illinois election contrary to the impression created by Hines was issued from the White House. The testimony of Mir. Aldrich has been awaited with much interest.
 George M. Reynolds. president of the Continental Commercial Bank or Chicago, who was reported to have declined the treasury portfolio in the Taft administration, today told the senate I.orimer committee that he knew of Edward Hines delivering an alleged message from the administra- tion at Washington to Governor -se- neen to aid Lorimer's election. He recited now Hines, on the day of Lorimer's election, consulted with him as how to deliver the message to Deneen.
 C., F. Wiehe, secretary of the Ed ward Hines Lumber Company declar- ed that William Burgess, of Duluth, Minn., was an absolute liar" if he testified to what was read as Bur- gess' testimony. Burgess had said Wiehe told him on the Winnipeg Fier" March z. 1911, that he sub soribed $10,000 to a Lorimer election fund. Wiehe told the committee he believed there was a frame np' be- tween Burgess and w. H. Cook. The latter recently testified that Edward Hines telephoned from hls room in Chicago on the day Lorimer was elected that he (Hines) would be down to Springfield with all the money necessary for Lorimers elec- tion. Wiehe said he believed Cook would perjure himself to injure Hines.
 Wiehe denied that he ever heard of the Father Green incident" as Burgess related it. Wiene recalled the rumor that a detective Keeley. |of the state attorneys office in Chi |cago, complained to Father Green about the work assigned to him in |the Lorimer case and that Keeley got Representative Becker drunk and then that Beckemeyer was taken to the red light district and compro- missing photograph shown him when he would not testify as wanted.
 stmuel q. Cusson, tbf Virginia Minn., 4 stockholder in the Edward Hines Lumber Company; John D.. Price, a lumberman of Seattle, Wash llngton,. and B. A. 3ohnson, former lly of the American Lumberman, or Chicago, told of being on the Winni- peg Flyer, but denied having heard lthe remarks attributed to Wiehe.