The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-04-27
new WITNESS IN
+. L0R|MER INQUIRY
Lumber Company Director Tells
of Hines Boasts.
TlLDEN CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Arrest of Chicago Packer and Two
Bankers 10 Asked by Helm
Committee at Spring
~ Il field, III.

Springfield, ILL.,, April 26.-W. II.
Cook, lumberman at Duluth, stock
holder in one of the Hines lumber
companies, testified before the Helm
investigating committee that he had
conversation with Edward Hines on
May /, 1909, in the Grand Pacific hotel
at Chicago.
He said Henry Turrish, lumber
man now in Oregon. was present at
this conversation. The witness said
and said he was having a - OF
time in Washington" He said:
There is Stephenson; we elected him,
and now he is working for free lum-
ber" He said furnish inquired about
the senatorial deadlock, and Hines an
swered:
1T is all fixed. Lorimer will be
elected. We had picked Boutell for
senator, but when the lumber schedule
came up he voted for free lumber. |
took the matter up with Aldrich, and
we agreed we must have another man.
We agreed to take it up with Lorimer,
and it Is all fixed"
Money Talk Over the Phone.
Whom did Hines mean by Ste
phenson?" asked Attorney John j.
Healy.
Il don't know" said Mr.. Cook, but
thought he referred to Senator Ste
phenson of Wisconsin"
The witness said he met Hines
again by arrangement of c. F. Wiehe,
ker, buyer for the Hines Lumber
company. He met Hines in the lobby
of the Grand Pacific hotel and went
to his room to hold a long-distance
telephone conversation. While there a
message came from Springfield for
Hines. Hines took the receiver, he
said, and said: rs this you, governor
Well, l just left Taft and Aldrich In
Washington. and they tell me under
no circumstances shall Hopkins be re-
turned to the senate. Now, l will be
down on the next train Don't leave
anything undone. l will have all the
money necessary"
Hines and His Volubiiity.
Witness said he saw Wiehe about a
year later in Chicago, in May or June
and had a conversation with him and
William O'Brien, another lumberman
in the Grand Pacific hotel at mid
night.
"Wiehe seemed anxious that we get
out of town." said Cook. He said II
we did not we might be called before
a grand jury which might investigate
the Lorimer case. He said Hines had
told him Lorimer had called him VI
and told him we were in town and fol
Gods sake to get us out
"O'Brien said they were making II
hot for Hines. Wiehe said: Yes, they
will get him, too. He talks too much
Every time reporter approaches hin
he talks enough to fill two columns
Confusion over Deneen and Yates.
Cook said he saw Hines two or three
weeks later In Alfred E. McCordick'I
Office in the Rookery building.
After talking about some bushes:
matters" said the witness, Hines aDt
went down. AS soon as we got GU
Hines spoke to me Of a story about {
telephone conversation, and said they
got 1t all mixed up. He said they haC
him talking to former Governor Yates
whereas he said he was talking will
Governor Deneen. He said he didn'
want to betray the confidence of Tai
and Aldrich. for If he did he wouldn'
dare go back to Washington.
my impression was that Hines wal
talking with Deneen when he used thu
telephone in my room in the Crane
Pacific, but Mr.. O'Brien, who was pres
ent, insisted Hines was talking witt
Yates"
Cook admitted he had business trou
bles with Hines, but said that woulC
not lead him to make a misstatemen
to the committee.
Tilden Cited for Contempt.
Edward Tilden, head Of the Nation
al Packing company and alleged treas
urer of the Lorimer "slush fund.-" W
C. Cummings, president Of the Drovers
Trust and Savings bank of Chicago
and George M. Benedict, cashier of tn
Drovers' Deposit National bank, wer
ordered arrested and held in contemp
by the Helm committee.
The report of the committee wa
sent to the upper house of the legislf
ture with the request that its actio
be concurred In and that officers b
sent to Chicago at the earliest poss
BILE moment to bring the packer an
the two bankers to Springfield to sho,
cause why they should not be sent t
the Sangamon county jail for teri
to be fixed by the presiding officer
Farmer Shoots Wife and Self.
South Bend, Ind, April 24.-Follov