The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-19
CONTRADICTIONS
Nl0R|MERCASE.
DEFENSE WITNESSES MAKE
FLAT DENIALS OF PROSE.
CUTI0N STORY,
'0NE MAKES BAD BRAKE
Discredits Own Affidavit Saying He
Must Have Misunderstood tt
Deneen's Strong State.
mentS.

dictions before the Senate committee
today befogged the Lorimer investi.
cation for work than at any time
since the new inquiry began. All
four witnesses fatty contradicted
important testimony previously
| given
Charles MCGOWAN, young Cana.
| dian contractor, declared that e. r.
Wiehe, secretary Of the Hines I.um-
Der Company, did not remark on the
! "Winneneg flyer" on the way from
| Duluth to Virginia, Mimi, on March
| ", 1911 that there was a jack pot
~aised to elect Lorimer and that he
hscrihed $4,000 to it.
William Fl. Burgess testified yes
oraav that Wiche did make this re-
/ mark in the presence of himself and
Young Canadian.
B. A. Johnson of Chicago until July
!, 1911, general staff representative
of the American Lumberman testi-
fed positively that Wiehe made no
such statements.
Isaac Baker, the buyer for the
Fines Lumber Co., denied unquali-
iiedly denied that Edward Hines
said over long distance telephone at
Springfield from w. IT, Cooks room
in the central hotel on March 26,
1909 that they would come to
Springfield with all the money neces-
testified Hines did not SO state.
Bakers testimony regarding the
conversation would read almost YER
batim with that given By Hines, Dom
aid N. France, an employee In the
Union League Club testified that
Hines once remarked to Fl. H. Hether
that he, HES, had elected Lorimer
thus corroborating Hestlers state
ment, McGown was submitted to
vigorous cross examination. Instead
oil Wiehe remaining in the smoker
and all the party of eight or ten men
left except Burgess and McGown.
The witness said Wiehe was the
first to depart. Later he declared to
be correct an affidavit he made in
which he said Wiehe was continu-
ously in the presence Of some of his
party all the way from Duluth to
vieina.
81 must have misunderstood the
affidavit" said MCGOWAN.
Johnson disagreed with Burgess
about Wiehe. he remaining in the
smoker. Johnson will be cross ex-
amined tomorrow.
Deueen's Statement.
vvneh'r otor .Trlv to ---A~ -,
haustive analysis and tahulation
SHOWING how the Lorimer-SNurtlof
bipartisan organization was in aheo-
lutte control of the LEGISLATION in the.
'N"-nr horen of tho T'Iinois leoisla-
ture at the time of the election Of
conator Lorimer in 1909 has been
furnished the Lorimer investigating
committee of the Senate.
The document was prepared at
Springfield under the direction of
Governor Deneen. who charged before
the committee last week that the
leaders of the bipartisan combina-
tion were responsible for the exist
ence of the Jackpot. Governor De-
neen explained before the committee
that the iron-bound organization
ruled over by former Speaker Ed
ward d. Shurtleff made it an easy
matter for those in power to throttle
or expedite the passage of bills.
Relation to Election.
The oovenor's tabulation bears or
the phase of the investigation deal
ing with the relation of the jack
pot to the election of Senator Lor-
inner The committee was especially
instructed by the Senate to prove in
to this angle of the situation, The
tables and explanatory statements
compiled by the governor have been
incorporated in the official record
and will be studied by the members
rf Jho on,,, ;tfno
In the analysis submitted by the
governor is given list Of the chair
men of all house committees at the
1909 session, showing how practical.
ly all the important committees
were in control of the Republicans
and Democrats who voted for Shurt-
left for speaker and Lorimer for SEN
ator.
Most Vote For Lorimer.
"Twerty-nine members who had
voted for surtleff for speaker receiv-
ed twenty-nine important and seven
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