The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-07-01
MAINTAINS
HIS STORY
EDWARD HINES RElTERATES HIS
STORY OF TAFT IN LoRIMER
CASE.
Says He Could Not Be Mistaken
About Senator AIdrich's Words
With Reference to Illinois
Election.

Washington. June 30.--For five
hours today Edward Hines, the veal
fthy Chicago lumberman, with large
interests in the South, whose naH
has been connected with an alleged
liLorimer election fund, underwent
cross examination before the senate
Lorimer committee as to his part in
1.-THE election. When the committee
adjourned until tomorrow the witness
was told that his ordeal was ended. !.
The committee probably will take a
recess tomorrow for several days.
Both Senator Lorimer's friends and
opponents expressed satisfaction with
the result of the cross examination.
Attorney John III. Marble. who con-
Quoted it for the committee, announced
during the day that he would follow
out all leads which had been sug-
gested to him." always with a view
|of getting at the truth and not to
persecute any one"
TO the list Of those whose testi-
|mony Mr.. Hines contradicted yester-
day, he today added the name of Her
man II. Hettler, head of q big COM
peting lumber company bearing his
name, who testified at Springfield i,
|C. H. Wiehe, Mr.. HINES brother in
law and secretary of the Edward
Hines Lumber Company, was stated
to have misunderstood a conversation
when discrepancy between the wit
ness testimony and Mr.. Wiehe at
the recent Helm investigation at
Springfield was dwelt upon.
Time and again up to the hour Of
adjournment the witness was asked
If he might not have been mistaken
about Senator Aldrich having told
him that President Taft would do
anything possible to assist Mr.. Lori
mcr's election.
Were Senator Aldrich's words so
plain that you could not be mis-
taken" insisted Mr.. Marble.
1T was impossible for me to have
been mistaken, because put the sub
stance of what he said in telegram
which | have replied the witness
He said he had never seen a denial
of his testimony from the White
House after his testimony at SPRING
field.
The conflicting testimony between
Mr.. Wiehe at Springfield and the
witness came out in connection with
Mr.. Hines sending Mr.. Wiehe to a
hotel in Chicago to get, w. H. Cook
10 stop taking Il about the famous teic-
phone conversation Mr.. Hines held
from Mr. Cooks room in which Mr..
Cook said Mr.. Hines spoke about TAX
ing money TO Springfield to assist
Mr.. Lorimer in his fight for the SEN
atorship. Mr.. Hines already said he
wanted the talk stopped, because 1t
would be embarrassing to have the
states attorney get hofN of the con-
versation. Mr.. Wiehe testified that
he was to see both Cook and his as
sociate, Mr.. O'Brien, while Mr.. Hines
said today he was merely to see Mr..
Cook.
Hotel bills for rooms in Washington
during last February were introduced
by Hines to show, if possible, that
he was not in Chicago in that month,
which was about the time he is al
legged in the testimony of Clarence
s. Funk, general manager of the In
ternational Harvester Company, TO
have called on Funk to refresh Funk S
memory of the Union League Club
conservation between the two men.
| On cToss-examination, MIR. Hines
said he was at New York, Philadei-
lphia and Baltimore during the period
he had room in Washington. Mr..
Hines insisted, however. that he was
not in Chicago until March. There
was long cross examination re-
garding the Union League Club con-
servation in 1909, at which Mr.. Funk
charged that Mr.. Hines asked him
to contribute $4,000 to ia 100000
Lorimer election fund and at which
Mr.. Hines said Mr.. Funk asked fol
the privilege of contributing to Mr.,
ILorimer's election fund.
| The witness described minutel,