The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
LOrimer Investigation Com mittee Passes Day of
 Sensations
AIR TAFT'S ALLEGED
 SUPPORT OF LORIMER
Claimed Speaker Shurtleff Blocked Scheme to Buy Hopkins Votes. Minister Boutell Brought
 Into Case By Hines

l H Hf enougn deniocratic votes in the Illinois legislature to re-eleet Albert j. Hopkins to the Senate was told on the witness stand today before the Senate Lorimer committee by James Keeley, general | manager of the Chicago Tribune. It was the sensation of q day of sensations in the hearing. It followed Mir. Keeleys testimony as to how he happened to buy the confession of Charles A. White. the legislator, whose story about graft at Springfield re- suited in the Lorimer investigation. It was subsequent to testimony by Ed ward Hines that Henry s. Boutell now | American minister to Switzerland, told l him President Taft would assist In the election of Lorimer to the Senate. MT. l Hines had been placed on the stand to- | day to tell about visits he paid last winter to F. IT. Gary R. $. Lovett. | successor to E. H. Hartman; J. $. Bache 1 X Co, and others In New York. None l of these visits, the witness claimed, had anything to do with the Lormer case. l MT keeley said all he knew about
 
 Clifford Raymond then representing the Tribune at Springfield, and from Ira c. Copley representative in Congress from Aurora, H.
 l He testified that Charles Wheeler. aitother Chicago newspaper man at | Springfield, came to Raymond during the legislative session in 1909 and told him a story which Speaker Shurtleff had personally requested be not printed What Raymond had told MT. Keeloy, the witness testified. Raymond said had been told by Wheeler
 MT. Keeley said
 The way Raymond told me the story was that on a certain night Speaker | Shurtleff, Dan Shananhan and some others whose names I do not recall, { met in a sertsiu room in the st. Nict- 1 olas hotel in Springfield, and that that meeting was caused by a report being received that certain man had come to Springfield to buy certain demo- cratic votes on a certain day for Hop kins.
 Knew Their Game
 That Representatives John c. Werdei and Anton Cermak were called in and that Speaker Shurtleff told them he knew W hat they were doing. An attempt was | teing made to buy democratic votes, and 1 he reaG them a list of 15 or 20 men who were to be bought and the prices that were to be paid. The list was headed by Nanny Abrahams. the 'Bellwether, l have been told Shurtleff said, now, we know what is going on and you can't put 1t through. If Nanny Abrahams votes 1 for JJf, l. tpS I SnSDPnd the roll call and will announce your names ard will read the list of men to be bought. | If you try that, that is what l will do. | That Roger Sullivan had been tele- p.honei to go to Springfield. His train was due to arrive from Chicago about midnight. He rounded up his followers and told them he would blow them out of 1 the political waters If they attempted | s'."h 2 thing"
 1 Mir Keeley said Raymond told him this story prior to the Lorimer election and that s2s,O00 or S30O00 was reputed to have been taken to Springfield.
 | He then read from memorandum that on September 2l, 1910 Representative Copiey and John NJ. Glenn came to his olfioe: that Copey and Hopkins came | from the same town and they hate each | her healthy and vigorously | The witness produced a. memorandum of | what Cooley had said. 1t was to the | effect that "Daniel Byrnes, formerly of 1 the Chicago Northwestern. was the man who tried to put through the deal" and | that the money had been taken to Spring. 1 field by resident of Wheaton. H. | According to the memorandum, Cooley said he had called upon Governor De- neen and Deneen had agreed to call in 20 | of his republican allies and if the dem ocrats voted for Hopkins to have these oJ switch from Hopkins
 Anything unusual take place In Spring. field the next day?" asked Attorney Marble.
 "For the first time the roll of the house was called before that of the senate"
 Questioned Hines Mr. Keeley sent list of questions on May 9, 1910, to Hines and F. S. Conway asking about the Lorimer contributions. MT. Conway said he knew nothing about 1 them.
 "Mr Hines" the witness said, "de- clined to answer"
 ] He came to my office that night with Mir. Wiehe. asked if this list of questions was joke, said he had a | reputation in Chicago and that these questions were insulting. He told me he would sue me for libel if I printed anything that reflected on him. I re- piled that I would print the truth and l tndt tne lTlDuHe DuiiuiiE was Woi' LII l $1. 800 000 If he sued he might be able to use it the building) in his lumber l business
 Mir. Keeley said he sent the same questions to Roger Sullivan, explaining | that I had been his friend but If he was in this matter God help him for I was going to treat him just as l did the rest and thought the roof was about to cave in.
 Mir Keeley insisted it was upon advice of counsel that he had not told the pre- vio,;s Lorimer committee about his lxnowl- edge of the story that Hines asked Funk to send a I,orimer contribution to Edward lTuden. Senator Kenyon suggested tha. a mariner of MT. Austin, Mir. Keeley's counsel, was counsel for Tiden and for the whisky interests. which were repute to rave contributed jackpot MT. Keeley said he did not doubt Mir. Aus tins integrity, Mir Keeley said the ex- istence of corruption jackpot was com mon gossip.
 Todays session of the committee began with Attorney Hancey, counsel for Sen ator Lorimer. questioning Hines
 Suddenly, at the instance of his counsel, Mir. Hines produced sheet of paper without letter head and without signature
 
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