The Cairo bulletin., 1911-07-01
HINES ON STAND
FOR FIVE HOURS
INSISTS ALDRIcH TOLD HIM
PRESIDENT WANTED LORI
MER ELECTED SENATOR.
CONFLICT IN TESTIMONY
Between Hines and His erctherln'
Law Wiehe--Says Latter Misun. z
dcrstood Conversation.

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Washington, June 3ot--For five
hours today Edward Hines, the veal
Thy Chlcago hrnlberman whose naran
has been connected with Lorimer w.
before the senate committee as 10
his part in the election. When the
committee adjourned until tomorrow
the witness was told mis- two days or.
deal was ended The committe will
probably take recess tomorrow for
.everal days
Both Senator Lorimer's friends and
opponents expressed satisfaction
with the result Of the cross ex1mina-
tion Attorney Marble who conducted
it for the committee announced he
would follow out all leads which had
been suggested 70 him Always with
view to getting at the truth ansi
not to persecute anyone. !"
To the list of those whose testi-
mony Mr.. Hines contradicted yester-
day he added the nail.e OF Herman
Hetcler, headof 4 big competing
lumber company bearing his name
who testified at Springfield.
The witness claimed a reporter of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean who he said
was generally friendly to him mis-
quoted him on two o. three points.
G. H. Wiehe, Mr.. Hines brother
in-law. and secretary of the Edward
Hines Lumber Co, was said to have
misunderstood conversation when a
discrepancy between the witness
testimony and Mr. Wiehe at the. rec
ent Helm investigation at Springfield
was dweIt upon,
Again and again up to the hour OF ad
.ournment the witness was asked If
ne might not have been mistaken
about Aldrich having told him that
President Tais would 40 anything
possible to assist Mr.. Lorimers cleo
ton
Were Senator Aldrich's words SO
plain you could not be Mistaken
ut was impossible for me to be
mistaken because put the substance
Of what he said in telegram have"
replied the witness.
He said he had never seen de,
NAL Of the testimony from the white
house after his testimony at Spring
field.
The conflict in testimony between
NJ. WAeghe at Springfield and the
witness came out in connection with
Mr.. Hines sending Mr.. Wdehe to a
hotel in Chicago to get w. n. Cook
to stop talking about the famous tele-
phone conversation Mr.. Hines held
from Mr.. Cooks room in which MIR.
'ook said Mr.. Hines spoke about TAX
ing money to Springfield to assist Mr..
Lorimer in his fight for the senator
ship.
Mr.. Hines already said he wanted
the talk stopped because IL would be
embaras ing to have the state at
torney get hold of his conversation.
Mr. Wiehe tstified he was told to SGT
Cook and his associate, Mr.. O'Brien
while Mr.. Hinea said Ne mereely
told him to see MrCook.
Hotel bills in Washington last
FEBRUARY were introduced to Mr.
Hines to show If possible he was not
IN Chicago in that monthwhich was
the time ne was alleged in the testi
mony of Clarence S. Funk, genera
manager of the harvester company
to have called on Funk to refresl
Funk's memory of the famous Unior
League Club conversation.
On cross examination Mr.. Hines
said he was at New York, Philadel
phia and Baltimore during the periot
he had a room in Washington ant
that the bill would show that Mr.
Hines had gone to Chicago
Mr.. Hines insisted however, that hs
was not in Chicago until March.
There was long cross examination
regarding the Union League Clut
conversation in 1909 at which Mr.
Funk charged that Mr.. Hines asket
him to contribute $4,000 to a $4,000.
Lorimer election fund at which Mr.
Hines said Mr.. Funk asked for ths
privalege of contributing to Mr., Lori
mer's election falnd.
The witness described minutely
how Funk took bold OF Hines elbo~
maintaining that position thret
tourths of the way to the door
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