The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-24
Beveridge Urges Colleagues Not to Decide the Case
 Through Sympathy
SENATE IS IMPATIENT
 AT LENGTH OF SPEECH
Beveridge Attacks Lorimer's Speech Delivered Yesterday and Says LOrimer Tried to Arouse
 Pity of Senate

l Washington, February 23-No vote was
 taken in the Lorimer case in the United States Senate today, nor could any date
 be fixed. Senator Beyeridge of Indiana
 spoke for four hours, but did not con
 clude. He announced that he would re- sume tomorrow. This was his second in-
 terruption of his speech which already
 has consumed nine hours.
 Just before the Senate went into exeeu- | tive session Senator Burrows attempted
 for the second time today to have a time | for a vote fixed, suggesting that 1t be be- l fore adjournment tomorrow. Senator
 Stone objected because he wanted time
 In which to be heard in the case. | With Congress within eight days of en-
 forced adjournment and with its calendar
 crowded with important measures. includ-
 Ing numerous appropriation bills, the Sen-
 ate adjourned in anything but an agree. able state of mind.
 | Ordinarily there would have been no
 objection to Mir Beveridges course in an- | nouncng he would resume his speech to- | morrow, but under the circumstances
 there were many manifestations of i'm l patience
 | Some senators who support Senator LOT | inner went so far as to charge flibuster to | prevent a vote in the Lorimer case, but Mir. Beveridge and his friends resented | this charge.
 T don't care a hang when vote after I get through" he said to Senator Gal | finger on the floor of the Senate just be- | fore adjournment. He insisted that he | must have opportunity to conclude his
 speech, which he promised he would do X tomorrow. Attacks LOrimer's Speech In his remarks today the Indiana sen
 ator made somewhat extended reference | to Senator Lorimer's speech of yesterday.
 warning senators against being carried away by sympathy. He continued his an alysis of the testimony in the case with a view of convincing the Senate that the | senator from Illinois had procured his l election through bribery. He also charged l that the committee on privileges Rsfl efec- 1 tions had acted with andue haste and 1 without proper deliberaton upon the ev- | dence in reaching its verdict. The alle- l gation made in connection with sharp colloquy with Senator Depew of | New York. He taxed the New York sen | ator with having failed to read the testi- mony and In addition intmated that the report which originally was agreed to by the committee on privileges and elections
 was not the same document that ultimate ly was presented to the senate In the Lorimer case
 Senator Beveridge, upon taking the floor today immediately addressed himself to the speech delivered yesterday by Senator
 Lorimer. Mir. Beveridge called the Sen ates attention from the eloquence of MT Lorimer to the record of sworn | testimony before us-testimony given un-
 der oath and searched as by fire, with fierce cross-examnation"
 Indeed" he continued. "If I mis-state any testimony or fail to give 1t fairly and fully, I will take 1t as personal favor if any senator better than l will correct me, for say to the Senate that I had far rather be shown to be In error than to be permitted to make any mis- statements of the facts. I go further and say that I would rather find the testi- mony establishes the validity of this election than the testimony vitiates tho
 election. The validity of the election s the issue and the only issue. and. 1t a the gravest issue than can arise under free institutions, because our govern | ment depends absolutely upon the purity | of the elections"
 MT Beyeridge said he had listened " peculiar personal sympathy to SeT Jr | Lorimer's story of his rise from .bie | estate to this high place. ThY were senators, he said. who from an 2 n earl. fer youth had borne even hT fer bur- dens; but they had asked / .othing ef the world on that account Speech Was Sentimental "But while I was affected a man | by that appeal" said the speaker, I l was curious a judge that Lorimer | did not recite these things before the Senate committee, If he or his attorneys | thought them material or relevant. His | account of this popularity is interesting | and explains much of his political strength. but 1t is not relevant to the
 question of bribery, which we are now 1 considering.
 "His newsboy experience and the de- voted friendship between himself and | 'Hinkey Dink' resulting therefrom, Is | engaging but 1t Is not material as to the corruption of Holtslaw, White, Beck. meyer Link and others. 'Hinkey Dink.' l according to MT. Lorimer, delivered | Griffins vote but Griffin swore he had not been asked by anyone to vote for | Mir Lormer. and Henry Terrell swore Griffin suggested that he vote for Lori | mer and said there was 5000 In It any, | way. "While my sympathy and approval as A man was aroused by picturesque. | praiseworthy incidents in the smiling members life (Mr. Beveridge thus m | dcated Lorimer), my Judgment as member of this court was not anected, | for judgment was not appealeu to. me | issue we must determine Is, that of the validity of the election. challenged here on the ground of bribery. On that grave charge no light was thrown.
 Nothing to Do With Bribery
 The sitting member says that every republican from his district voted for Hopkins; that he urged the election of Shurtleff that he tried to get gover- nor Deneen to run, that all this took place before he himself was candt- date All this is important political history no doubt, but what has 1t to
 do with the alleged bribery we arc now considering?
 Mr. Beveridge went on to remind the Senate that the record of the investi-
 gation showed why 1t was desired to elect Governor Deneen senator. Browne tells us.' said he, that they would have been willing to elect Deneen In
 order to get rid of him Why did they
 want to eliminate Governor Deneen ae | to Hopkins and Shurtleff, while it Is | of no possible consequence it may be
 said that a wise political manager would throw votes to Hopkins when they could not elect him because that would be modifying the real Hopkins | votes for any future plans. The sup
 
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