Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-05-05
SAYS Hines B0ASTED
NEW LORIMER FUND WITNESS
TELLS OF LUMBERMAN'S
PHONE TALK.
GOVERNORS ARE DRAWN IN
Names Of Deneen and Yates Are Men,
toned in Testimony-Tilden and
Two Bankers Ordered Arrested by
Committee for Contempt.

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Committee for Contempt.
Springfield, m.-How Edward Hines
In a conversation in the Grand Pacifi,
hotel at Chicago on May l, 1908
boosted that he had elected SENATOR
Stephenson and Lorimer, was told be
fore the Helm investigating commit
tee by w. H. Cook OF Duluth, a stock
holder In the Hines Lumber company
He said Henry furnish. a lumber
man now in Oregon. was present a
this conversation. The witness sale
Hines approached him and Turrisf
and said he was having a - of 6
time in Washington" He said;
There is Stephenson; we elected him
and now he Is working for free lum
ber." He said furnish inquired abou'
the senatorial deadlock, and Hines an
swered:
1T is all fixed. Lorimer will b.
elected. We had picked Boutell fol
senator, but when the lumber schedule
came up he voted for free lumber.
took the matter up with Aldrich, and
we agreed we must have another man
We agreed to take 1t up with Lori
mer, and It Is all fixed"
Whom did Hines mean by Ste
phenson?"
Il don't know" said Mr.. Cook, but
I thought he referred to Senator Ste
phenson Of Wisconsin"
The witness said he met Hines
again by arrangement OF C. F. Wiehe.
brother-fn-law of Hines, or Isaac Ba-
ker, a buyer for the Hines Lumber
company. He net Hines In the lobby
of the Grand Pacific hotel and went
to his room to hold a long-distance
message came from Springfield for
Hines. Hines took the receiver, he
said. and said: rs this you, governor?
Well, I Just left Taft and Aldrich in
Washington. and they tell me under
no circumstances shall Hopkins be re-
turned to the senate. Now, l will be
down on the next train. Don't leave
anything undone. ! will have all the
money necessary"
Witness said he saw Wiehe about a
year later in Chicago, in May or June.
and had a conversation with him and
William O'Brien, another lumberman.
in the Grand Pacific hotel at mid
night.
"Wiehe seemed anxious that we get
Of town" said Cook. "He said II
we did mo- we might be called before
. grand Jury which might investigate
the Lorimer case. He said Hines had
told him Lorimer had called him up
and told him we were in town and
for Gods sake to get us out.
"O'Brien said they were making It
hot for Hines. Wiehe said: Yes, they
will get him, too. He talks too much.
Every time q reporter approaches him
he talks enough to fill two columns"
Later talking about some business
matters," said the witness, Hines and
I went down. As soon as we got out
Hines spoke to me Of a story about .
conversation, and said they
rot It AL mixed up. He said they had
talking to former Governor Yates,
whereas he said he was talking with
Deneen. He said he didn't
want to betray tho confidence Of Taft
and Aldrich. for II he did he wouldn't
dare 90 back to Washington. MY i'm
preston was that Hines was talking
with Dcneen when he used the tele-
phone In my room in the Grand Pa
ciflc. but MI. O'Brien. who was pres
ent. insisted Hines was talking with
Yates"
Springfield, nl.-After battling for
six hours as to the reasonableness Of
the suspicion that Edward Tilden had
acted az the banker for the 800, 900
fund which elected Senator Lorimer,
the Illinois senate voted 40 to z to
arrest the millionaire for contempt
In refusing to produce before the
Helm committee his bank accounts
and papers bearing on the Lorimer
scandal.
George M Benedict, cashier of tho
Drovers' National bank. and William
G. Cummins. president OF the Dro-
vers' Trust and Savings bank-two Of
Tflden's bank which refused to pro-
ducs his accounts-were cited and
will also be arrested.
It was agreed among the counsel
that tho defendants shall be permitted
to institute habeas corpus proceedings
to determine the legal controversy
the courts.