Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-30
HINES REPEATS
HIS TAFT STORY
bsspite White House Denials
He Insists President Urged
Lorimsr's Election.
FUNK TESTIMONY FALSE
Has Hotel Bills to Prove
His Presence in Washing
ton at Time in QUESTION.

Special by United Press Wire.
Washington, June 30:-Edward
Hines, alleged senator-maker, was
subjected to a grilling cross examina-
ton today by the senate committee
Investigating the election of Senator
Lorimer.. Hines stuck to his story
regarding the visit of Aldrich to Taft
and Taft's alleged approval of Lori
mer as the logical man for senator,
on the eve of Lorimer's election, de-
spite its having been fatty contra
dicted in a statement officially issued
from the White House.
In support of the claims that he
was in Washington last February and
not in Chicago, as testified to previ-
ously by Funk, Hines showed bills
from local hotel which indicated in
general that Hines was here from
February Z to March last.
Hines said that he had urged Lori
urgent request Of Senator Aldrich and
that Aldrich told him it was the wish
of President Taft. Hines said he
had asked Governor Dineen to assist
In the election.
He declared that both senators Aid
rich and Penrose approached him in
May, 1909, on the subject Of the Il
linois senatorial situation and that
Senator Aldrich represented to him
that President Taft was especially in
terested In having the Illinois vacancy
filed. Senator Aldrich, Mr.. Hines
said, also stated that both he and the
president felt that Mr.. Lorimer, then
representative in congress, could be
elected.
Hines asserted that Senator Aldrich
had wanted him to go to the White
House to see the president. Hines said
he thought 1t best for Mr.. Aldrich and
Mr. Taft to talk the matter over by
themselves and did not go. Senator
Aldrich came to him, he said, i'm
mediately following the conference
and reported the president as favoring
Lorimer. Hines said he ut once got
In communication with Senator Lori
mer at Springfield over the telephone
and went west the next day to carry
out what he believed to be q mission
from the administration. Senator Aid
rich told him that if any one doubted
the administrations attitude to have
them call up either Adrich or Presi-
dent Taft himself.
Referring to the much discussed
telephone conversation In W. H.
Cooks room at the Grand Pacific
hotel in Chicago. Mr.. Hines denied
positively that he said, Hello, Gov
ernor Dineen," or spoke about the use
Of money in the election. He denied
knowing anything about the use Of
money to elect Senator Lorimer.
The persistent charges by Hines that
Aldrich and Penrose and President
Taft were desirous of the election of
Lorimer, though not entirely new,
were made with so much reiteration
that the committee is put In a most
interesting situation. 1t has already
determined to call in Aldrich and Pen
rose and will do so shortly. The next
question Is whether President Taft
will see fit of his own motion to make
statement for the record. When
Hines first made the charge the presi-
dent issued q denial 1t would cause
no surprise If he now made a denial
for the record in the Lorimer case. 1t
goes without saying that If at any time
the president did want Lorimer elected
he had no notion that any but proper
methods would be used.
Washington, June 80.-The following
statement was issued from the White
House:
The fact with reference to the presi-
dents relation to Senator Lorimer's
election is this:
THAT during the tariff fight gentle
men came to him and expressed their
interest in passing the tariff bill and
said that it had been suggested from
Illinois that it would be wise for the
president to express an opinion in ia
vor of the election Of Mr.. Lorimer. He
did not know Mr.. Lorimer well, al
though he knew that he was an inf1u-
entail member of congress, but he did
know Senator Hopkins. He knew very
little about Illinois politics, but ex-
pressed a desire that there should be
Republican senators from Illinois, but
when asked to put that in the form
of a telegram urging the election of
Mr.. Lorimer he declined to do so.
'The statement by Mr.. Hines that
the president was anxious for and was
urging the election of Mr.. Lorimer is
wholly unfounded."