Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-27
Attorneys and Witnesses
Have a Merry Setto IN
Senate Hearing Of Illinois
Statesman's Election.
KEELEY STRIKES
BACK AT QUERIES
General Manager Of the CHI
cago Tribune is Still on the
Grill-Hanecy is Untiring
Inquisitor.

w..h,noton. D. c., July 26.-t
10 probable that heads O. the oI9
stock yards companies At Cn'caso
will be called as witnesses 20 eE
plain the use Of "lard" tmoneyl ~
the Lorimer election. W'tness
Kelley said representatives OF t"e
Armour, Swift, Morris, and otner
concerns might eniighten the com
mittee.
washington, D. c., July 26.-Clash
after clash between witness and attor-
ney occurred again today at the sen
ate Lorimer committee hearing our
ing the cross examination OF James
Keeley. general manager and editor
OF the Chicago Tribune, by senator
Lorimer's counsel. The proceedings
largely centered around the puphca. !:
tion Of the so-called confession OF
State Representative Charles A. Wnlte
OF the Illinois legislature.
Just before the committee recessed
Mr., Hanecy asked If the Tribune en-.
gagged Alfred Austrian for It's counsel
in the White-Lorimer matter, because
Of any close relations OF Austrian
firm to the states attorneys once ~
Chicago, from which many lncidents
III tie. matter had emanated. MT.
q 4Keeley responded that Mr. Austrian = :
swas employed BY the Tribune as lts
counsel long before the White conIes'
sion or the Lorimer election came up.
How Gov. Altgeld pardoned former
Cashier Louis A.. Hillyer OF the Cnl-
cago Tribune, convicted OF empezzie-
ment, and the claim that knowledge
Of undervaluation of the TriDunes
property for assessment purposes
might have been factor in the young
mans fall, figured at the outset OF the
hearing before the senate Lorlmer
committee today.
Attorney Hanecy, for Lorimer, con-
tinued the cross-extmination OF James
Keeley, general manager OF the IriD-
une. He submitted in evidence the Hill
yer pardon, In which the governor
said the cashiers moral courage might
have been weakened by seeing that
the Tribune failed to pay about $25,..
900 q year enough rent for school
lands It occupied and also that 1t un-
deryalued its property so that 1t paid
S32. 900 year too little in taxes. Smil-
Ing one minute and irritated the next,
Mr. Kelley countered on many OF the
pointed questions forced at him. The
Tribune's printing of an item about
the opening of "Lorimer's bank at
the end Of the White confession story
was taken up. Mr.. Hanecy purpoTted
to repeat what Mr.. Keeley had testi-
fled as to the way the Lorimer bank
item happened to fit in the vacant
space under the White confession
about the, election bribery.
when you quote me, please read
from the records Mr.. Kelley sharply
reminded. "You put words in my
mouth that did not say"
Mr.. Hanecy said he was not pre-
tending to quote the witness words,
but was calling attention to the Incl
dent. Mr.. Keeley insisted that the
tuxtaposition of the Lorimer bank
item and the White story was acci-
dental. that the former was picked
from other newspaper copy In the
makeup room In order to fit the
hole In the page" and not because Of
the subject matter.
Mr.. Hanecy asked about the send
ing out OF detectives and reporters "to
strengthen' the White story.
1--WE didn't send them out to
strengthen the story and 1 have not
said so. It was to Investigate IT.
''Well, you put it any way that you
want. Strengthen 'corroborate' and
Investigate are synonyms in this
case. Analyze, parse and diagnose
them, II you want to-"
Tells Of White.
Mr.. Keeley denied that any detec-
tives employed by the Tribune kept
White, the legislator who confessed,
in custody, but said $3.50 was paid for
Whites keep and board"
Mr.. Keeley said White was "broke"
and had been 'broke" at other times
Mr.. Hanecy produced COPY Of the
Tribune Of May 8. 1910. This date
was few days subsequent to the pub
lication OF the White story. In it an
other item about Lorimer's bank was
printed in proximity to the 'legisla-
tive scandal"
The witness denied that it was
placed there maliciously, but said
probably the same makeup men
placed 1t there who placed the first
item after the White story.
Many questions were asked the wit
ness about "men being killed and
MANNED" in the Tribune office Mr..
Keeley said men had been hurt, but
denied y -. lawless place.