Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-27
IOWA SENATOR IN NOTABLE
sPEEcH EXPOSES WORKING
OF LOBBY.
INFLUENCES At WORK
TO SAVE ILLINOIS SENATOR
Declares Committee Report 10 Biased
and lnoom p,sts and Conclusions Not
Founded on faets-RefusaI TO Un.
ssat Lorimsr Would bs Invitation 70
Crime.


position to Senator Lorimer. In the
progress he made before adjournment
he demonstrated that he had carefully
analyxed the testimony and arguments.
bringing to the work an experience Of
twenty-t i've years in the practice Of the
law.
He was severe in his criticism Of the
sinadequacy and irresponsibility" Of
the report Of the subcommittee which
Investigated the charges.
Appealing to the senator's to sit as
judges and expressing the opinion that
''eyery senator who votes upon this re-
port will record the truth as he sees
it, he denounced the lobby working In
behalf Of Mr.. Lorimer.
caIIs For Unbiased Judgment.
Willing to exclude from considera-
ton the opinion Of the people and the
comments Of the press. Mr.. Cummins
insisted there also should be excluded
"all the influences which have been
aroused in this unfortunate controver-
BY, for there are other voices than
those Of the general public and OF The
newspapers which are quite as insist
ent. and sometimes infinitely more
pO"C1&u4 k1I4u W h4AS44 oS SAAAASS ~A ~ eASSss~
about the capital"
That While did not fabricate his
confession, Mr.. Cummins insisted. was
proved by the testimony. He followed
the evidence closely to show the i'm
portant facts substantiating Whites
statements, over which he had no con-
troll and which were procured from
those friendly to Mr.. Lorimer.
Aoainst Praise Of Browne.
Inclined to Join those who bitterly
denounce White, Mr.. Cummlns in.
sisted that the members Of the investi-
gatins committee should not go to the
extent Of eulogizing Browne, reading
from the correspondence in the case to
show the close relations which had
existed between the two men.
whether William Lorimer had gull
ty knowledge of the efforts that were
being made in his behalf. and which,
finally resulted in his election. do not
say" declared Senator Cummins. who
criticised the committee for failure to
conduct the inquiry so as to collect
all available testimony on that subject.
asserting that the failure Of the COM
mittee in that respect should not be
used by the committee to emphasize
its report that "there was no tes1-
money offered during the investigation
which would tend in the remotcst de-
gree to implicate Senator Lorimer."
He held that the investigators
should have gone further with their
work regardless of the fact that coun-
sci for the Chicago Tribune had said
there would be no effort to connect
Lorimer with the bribery charged.
Scope Of Report Limited.
Senator Cummins insisted that the
report submitted was not the report
called for by the resolution directing
the Investigation in that 1t failed to
answer the inquiry whether corrupt
methods or practices were used.
Mir. Cummins had only fairly start
ed today when he was interrupted by
senator Cullom, who moved an exec
utiye session in order to dispose OF the
presidents message on Canadian re-
ciprocity. He will continue tomorrow.
In his criticism Of the arguments ad-
yanced in Lorimer's behalf Mr. Cum
minis said:
.It has astonished me somewhat to
hear the eminently proper demands
that this issue should be decided solely
upon the evidence, and In the next
breath to hear from the members OF
thu committee the suggestion that the
VeEO1CS OIL Tile July AA OAAASooN ~A>~ s,.>
re.election of men to office who have
been accused Of crime should be ac-
cepted by us as proof that Mr.. Lorimer
was not corruptly elected to the senate
Of the United States.
"And this, Notwithstanding the ad-
mission of the senior senator from
South Dakota, Mr.. Gamble. that there
was a gang Of boodlers in the Illinois
legislature Of which some Of the men
who were 30 reelected must necessar.
lily have been part.
Taking Peoples Judgment.
Speaking for myself" the senator
went on. II intend to be governed by
the evidence we have before us and the
law as It has been established, but
when I remember that the testimony
taken by the committee was published
ana from the beginning has been in the
possession OF great multitudes Of people
Just as completely as 1t has been In our
possession, if I were driven to q choice
between the result OF criminal trial
In Chicago or the reelection to office
Of men some Of whom are confessedly
corrupted and the Judgment of men and
women thruout the country who have
reached their conclusions with nothing
but the good Of their country at heart.
I would not hesitate to accept the lat
ter ~ my guide.
THE decision Of this particular case
Il OF great moment to the senste ana
the people, but the question whether
Mr.. Lorimer shall be permitted to re.
tain his seat IN the senate Of the Unit
Cd States shrinlks into inslgnincance
when compared with the consequences
O4 tho rule relating to bribery flrst
saanouneed IN tho debate BY Senator