Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-02-02
MAY HOLD UP The
APPROPRIA TON BILLS
BROWN SAYS THAT UNLESS LOR-
IMER VOTE Is TAKEN AND
OTHER BILLS TAKEN UP
THERE WILL BE BALk.

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Senator William Lorimer of Illinois
had full knowledge of the bribery by
which it is charged his election was
procured, was asserted by Senator
Norris Brown of Nebraska in the
course of speech made in the senate
today,
This was step In advance of any
that had been taken on the subject,
and if. adopted would result in Mr.. Lor-
liners expulsion. Mr.. Browns refer
ence to the LOrimer case was inciden-
tai to discussion of the resolution
providing for the election OF United
States senators by direct vote OF the
people.
May Hold Up Appropriation Bills.
Unless the senate votes at this ses-
sion on the Lorimer case, the resolu-
tion pertaining to the election OF sena-
tors by the people, the bill to create
permanent tariff board and general
service pension bill, Senator Norris
Brown OF. Nebraska and some Of his
colleagues who favor the measures
named, are determined that the ap-
preparation bills also shall fail.
Senator Brown, from the floor of the
senate today, said he had no quarrel
with the "rule" that appropriation
acts come first, but that he would OBJ
tect to its application in the light OF
the present emergency, unless 1t Is
agreed in advance that there shall be
votes on the four propositions named
before adjournment.
"This Is not said as threat nor in
the nature of an ultimatum," said Sen
ator Brown II am stating q simple
fact and it Is we'll, with only four
working weeks ahead Of us, that we
understand now what the fact Is in
this regard If congress adjourns with
out acting on these measures, con-
gress will adjourn without action on
some Of the appropriations bills"
Failure of any one of the regular
appropriation bills would necessitate
an extra session of congress.
Recalls Browne.Lorimer Conferences.
Declaring consideration of the Lori
mer case to be essential to proper
discussion Of the election, Mr.. Brown
undertook to show that the relations
between Mr.. Lorimer and State Sena-
tor Lee O'Neill Browne had been such
as to render it certain that Lorimer
had been positively advised as to
Brownies operations in Lorimer's be-
half.
To this end the Senator undertook to
show that the support OF Browne and
his thirty democratic followers had
been procured through Speaker Shurt-
left, the warm friend of Mr.. Lorimer,
and that after Lorimer and Browne
had been brought together they were
in constant conference, meeting as.
often as a dozen times in one evening.
"Whaty were these conferences
about?" asked Mr.. Brown, and reply
ing to his own inquiry, he said:
EVERY senator here knows that they
related to the ways and means neces-
sary to win votes f6f Lorimer. On no
rational theory can anybody conclude
that Lorimer was not advised by
Browne of anything that Browne did
for him. and whatever Browne did
and whatever difficulties Browne en-
countered in his canvass for support
among his followers, for Mr.. Lorimer
must have been made known to him
at these conferences, and independent
of any direct testimony on that ques-
ton it must be concluded in all good
reason and conscience that Browne
concealed nothing from Lorimer and
that Browne did not learn anything
that would further the election OF Lori
mer which Lorimer did not know about
at the time. This construction is sup
ported by every undisputed circum-
stance surrounding the faction"
Brownies Report to Lorlmer.
Quoting then Brownies admission
that he did make reports to Lorimer,
Mr.. Brown commented:
Browne was making his report to
his chief and it is utterly unbelievable
that he kept from Mr.. Lorimer the in
formation about the bribery OF Beke-
meyer, Link and Holtslaw. Lorimer is
bound by the testimony OF this wit
ness, the senate is bound by 1t. 1t has
a compelling force that cannot be re-
sisted in the light Of this record, and
when it is established in the proof that
Lorimer knew what Browne was doing,
it is established that the bribery OF at
least four members of that legislature
was committed with the knowledge
Do