The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-15

gan work on the exposed wreck al Havana on November 20.
 The hoard in it's report emphasized the fact that it found that what Is called the port starboaTd strake-a continuous llne of planking running from stem to stern was ''dished upward as much as "A inches
 from a straight line;" that another strake, technically called "C-2," was displaced
 "upward and inward for 100 square feet, and that part of the inner bottom plat
 ing was displaced upward" and left ap-
 proximately six feet above it's original po-
 stion.
 The destruction wrought by the two
 port explosions of distinctly different
 characters was found to be much more
 extensive than had been anticipated
 The report in technical terms described
 how plates were crumpled, how some por- tions of what had once been a great bat
 tleship were turned inside out and how parts of the bottom works generally were
 displaced
 ''The debris of one pounders, six
 pounders, six inch and 10 inch am
 intuition vas found widely scattered
 through the wreck" said the report
 "The location of much of the material
 bore little relation to it's original stow age position Powder tanks were torn asunder or crushed and flattened. The
 condition of vertical keel and flat Keel
 at frame IS was ascribed by the court
 of inquiry of 1898 to the direct effect of an explosion exterior 10 the shlp in that vicinity
 The cause of the wreck was the ex- terior explosion which ignited the mag azine in the vicinity of this frame lS.
 "The protective deck and hull of the ship" said the report, formed cham
 Der in which the gases were generated and partly exploded before rupture.
 The boat portion of the Maine was found pointed nose downward to port and lying on its starboard side. The upper part of that portion of the ship in the vicinity of the forward maga-
 zines was entirely swept away. only about one-half of the bottom was left
 in position.
 The Maine explosion occurred almost IA years ago. In that disaster two officers and 264 of her crew perished The report was ordered printed and referred to the naval affairs commit | tee of the two houses.
 Lorimer Defense Set Back | Senator Lorimer's defense received 8 | temporary setback today. Elbridge l Hancey, his counsel, had announced | that he expected to prove that the cor | ruption charges against the senator | were inspired by the International liar. vester company, because it was believed l legal fight in Chicago to increase th' | company's taxes.
 | The committee Investigating Lori mer's election ordered stricken iron
 the records all testimony concerning
 the tax fight given by Maxwell Edger | a Chicago lawyer, who created a sen sation last Saturday by testifying tha
 he received from Clarence Darrow, thu l lawyer, an offer of $10,000 if he would drop the tax fight against the har vester company.
 I Chairman Dillingham; ruled that Ed gar's testimony could not be- receiVe' unless counsel for Mortimer could con meet 1t with proof that the harveste
 officials believed Lorimer was interest | ed in the fight against them. MT Han ecy promised to develop testimon. along that line tomorrow.
 | Clarence Funk, general manager o | the International Harvester company | reiterated much of the testimony h previously has given.
 l The eight hour day for laborers an 1 mechanics on government work such | ship building, gun and ammunition max | ing and river and harbor work, would b | extended to contract work done by pri vate firms by the terms of bill intro | duced by Representative Hughes of Ne' Jersey and passed by the House today. | Representative Burgess said he though the bill would not "hold water" and ad
 vised the house to have a brick make write an eight hour law about 10 lines 1 length"
 For the first time in years you demo crats are playing politics successfully. he said Day before yesterday you go the old soldier vote; yesterday you go