The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-03-02
4e VOTED THAT
He be SEATED
STRONG FIGHT MADE AGAINST
HIM BY SENATOR BEVERiDGE
FAILS.
Illinois Man Wnom the Country Re-
CARDS as Guilty of Bribery, Re-
ceives the Expected Coat of Whit
wash From Friends.

Washington, March by a narrow
margin of six votes the senate this
afternoon sustained William Lori
mer's title to his seat for the state OF
illinois, defeating by a vote of 46 to
40 the resolution of Senator Beveridge
declaring him not legally elected a
member of the senate.
Senator Lorimer was not present
when the vote was taken. leaving the
senate chamber shortly before the
rollcall began. Evidently he did not
feel like facing the vote which was to
decide whether he should remain in
the senate or be summarily ousted
by his fellow lawmakers.
Ends Hard Fight.
Today's vote ends one of the hard
est fights ever made in congress for
the dismissal of a senator-one in
which political crookedness of a
startling nature was revealed. The
fight began months ago when charges
were made that Illinois Legislators ac-
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which were followed by sensational
trials for Democratic Leader Lee
O'Neil Browne, who was acquitted,
and others.
Nationwide interest has been dis
played in every phase of the Lorimer
hearing, which was not second in i'm
portance to even the hearing against
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger,
charged with various Irregularities in
his Office.
On Beveridge Resolution.
AS a majority of the privileges and
elections committee did not accom-
pany its report generating Senator
Lorimer with resolution upon which
the vote could be taken in the senate,
the action today was upon the Bever-
idge resolution.
This resolution read: Resolved,
That William Lorimer was not duly
and legally elected to a seat in the
United States senate by the legisla-
ture of the state of Illinois,
The Vote.
Legislative votes therefore were
cast ty those favoring the Illinois
senator's retention of his seat.
The vote was as follows Nays, pro-
Lorimer-republicans Bradley, Bran
degee, Briggs, Bulkley, Burnham,
Burroughs, Carter, Clarke. of Wyo-
ming; Crane, Cullom, Curtis, Depew,
Dick, Dillingham;, Dupont, Flint, Gal
linger, Gamble, Guggenheim, Hale,
Hepburn, Kean, McCumber. Nixon,
OLSON, Scott, Smoot, Stevenson. War
rem and Wetmore. Democrats, Bailey,
Bankhead, Fletcher, Ester, Johnston,
Paynter, Simmons, Smith of Mary
land; Thornton, Tillrlan and Watson.
Total nays, 46.
Ayes Observation-Disclosures
Beyeridge, Bor@l, Bourne, Bristow,
Browne, Burkett, Burton, Clapp,
CRAWFORD, Cummins, Dixon, Gronna,
Jones, Lafollette, Lodge. Nelson, Page,
Root, Smith (Mich.), Sutherland,
Warner and Young. Democrats: Ba.
con, Chamberlain, Clark (Ark), Cul-
herson, Davis, Gore, Martin, Money,
Newlands, Overman, Owen, Percy,
Rayner, Shively, Smith (S c., Stone,
Swanson and Taylor Total ayes, 40.
Absent-Aldrich Frazier and Ter
rell.
Lorimer Did Not Vote.
Senator Lorimer did not vote be.
cause of his interest in the case
Senator Taliaferro was in his seat,
but did not respond to his name.
The vote of Senator Cullom. Mr..
Lorrimer's colleague, was awaited.
with great interest. Both sides claim
ed him. He voted in favor of Lori
mer.
The galleries were filled to capaci-
ty early in the day. BY o'clock a
half-hour before the vote was taken,
every seat was filled and crowds
stood in the corridors and tAllery
doors.
The members of the lower house
filled all the available seats in .he
corners of the senate floor and many
were standing.
Lorimer Made Speech.
Lorimer made one more speech i'll
his own behalf. Referring evider ~
to certain assertions made few min
utes before by Senator Owen. of Okla
homa, in the course of a bitter anti