Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-26
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BROUGHT IN TO
LOR|MER CASE
KENTUCKY SENATOR INTlMATES
THAT ILLINOIS SENATOR is TO
BE SACRIFICED AS HANDICAP
TO ADMINISTRATION

Washington, jan 25.-For the first
time since the debate in the case OF
| Lorimer began, mention was made
today Of the reported interest OF the
president in the unseating of Lorimer
because Of alleged bribery. Senator
Paynter of Kentucky, who is a mem
ber of the subcommittee which re.
ported in favor of generating the
ITllinois senator, defended the COM
mittee report. He said he did not
suppose the country demanded vic
tim nor that "sacriflcial offering be
! made. of the accused senator to satisfy
| a popular demand; nor did suppose
! it was necessary to do so to give char
acter and standing to the admins
tration"
Praises Shurtleff and Browne.
He Immediately proceeded to elm
mate the president from the discus
sion by resenting the imputation
against him that he was using his
personal influence against Lorimer.
He refused to believe these reports
regarding the president, considering
him too we'll informed as to the con-
stitutional rights of the senate to be
the judge of it's own members or to
interfere in any manner.
Paynter defended Lorimer's char
acter and spoke in terms Of praise
both of Speaker Shurtleff of the Illi-
nois legislature and Lee O'Neill
Browne.
Cumrins Draws Dead Line.
The permanent dead line" of de.
marcation between regulars and in
surgents was drawn in the senate as
result of speeches delivered by Sen
ators Smoot of Utah and Cummins OF
Iowa. The fact OF this division was
pointed out by the latter
Closing speech In opposition to the
Cummins joint resolution for the
amending of congressional rules re-
garding amendments to schedule tariff
bills, the Utah senator took square
ground against schedule revision.
81 accept the challenge said Mr..
Cummins, "and am prepared to say
that believe the division here out
lined will constitute the issue Of the
tuture."
smoot Defies insurgents.
He said Mr.. Smoot had been the first
boldly and definitely to declare that
there should be no change in any item
until prepared for complete revision.
He had, he said, no fight with the posi-
tion neither of Sen. Aldrich nor Sem
ator Lodge and he narrowed the real
opposition to the schedule plan to his
colleague Senator Young, and Senators
Smoot and Flint
Referring to the fear expressed by
those senators that the interests OF
the farmers would be imperiled by
legislation, Mr.. Cummins
said the time never could come when
agriculture would not be the dominant
in a majority of states, rem
dering it certain that agricultural pro-
ducts never would be Disseminated
against in the matter of legislation in
the senate.
Flint and Cumnns Clash.
Mr.. Flint Of California called atten-
tion to the fact that in the last re-
vision of the tariff Mr.. Cummins had
voted to put asphalt on the free list
which would have had the effect os
destroying the asphalt interests in his
state
Mr.. Cummins said he had not felt |
under obligations to place such
tariff on asphalt as would permit the
Of asphalt across the contl-
nent in order to protect California |
industry. Looking directly at Mr..
Flint the Iowa senator expressed the |
hope that in the future senators would
not vote for what they considered /
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