The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
KELLEY AND HANECY FENCE WITH WITS
 IN NLORIMER PROBE Most Gruelling Cross-Ex- animation Since Investi-
 gatiOn Began
HILBYER PARDON IS
 BROUGHT INTO CASE
Hanecy Attacks Tribune Editorials on Lofimer Scandal-Probable That Stockyard Men May
 Be Subpoenaed

" JulA 4D-- | iit Nioos" cAe'bfi nation of James Keeley. general manager and editor of the Chicago Tribune, was completed today before the Senate Lori mer committee. Not since the beginning of the investigation has a witness been put through the grueliing examination that Mir Keeley experienced at the hands of Elbridge Hanecy. counsel for Senator Lorimer Time after time the editor lei the sarcastic remarks of the attorney pass with nothing more than a shrug of th' shoulders, but at others he countered anc retaliated. Throughout the day the ob ject of the attorney appeared to be t' establish an ancient grudge of the Tri bune against Lorimer.
 The committee after the cross-examina tion asked the witness just two ques tions. One was whether the editor 9e ieved the story of State Representative Charles A. White, whose alleged confes' sion of graft in the Illinois legislature was first printed by the Tribune.
 "l did and do," was the answer.
 The other question was directed at what MT. Keeley had in mind when he saio yesterday he had about changed his con clusion about having been swindled when he paid George Glavis $500 for books that Glavis claimed showed that Lorimer, when in the House, received money from lobbyists in Washington. He had not got an opportunity to explain on cross-exami- nation.
 "When 1 came to Washington a few days ago." MT. Keeley replied "Mr. Green. attorney for Glavis, came to me and said if l would ask the district at torney to be easy on Glavis he would tell me where the book was. The trunk full of books had ,dwindled to a memorandum book. MT. Green said the book was in existence, and that he knew who had it. l told him I could not be a party to such an arrangement. and that the proper person for him to see was the district at torney. He said he would see his client and call on me again. but he has not done so. He added that 8 search warrant would be necessary to get the book Cue of fhc points AWelt or ny MT l Hanecy in his cross-exsmination was th' 1 reputed criticism in Tribune editorials O senators who voted for Lorimer in the re | cent fight over his seat in the Senate MT. Keeley said he had no recollection of such editorials.
 Reads Editorials
 MT. Hanecy thereupon read several edi 1 torials The first was entitled, Don 1 Crowd MT. Burrows and described tn chairman of the first Lorimer commit tee as picking nosegays." l Another editorial printed after the vot on the Lormer case said that if fou more senators had voted their homes convictions on the Lorimer case, Lori
 mer would have been unseated | sFNhat four did VOu have in mind, NO four. The vote was 46 to 10. Fou 1 from 46 leaves 42 and four added to 1 | makes H.''
 Did you have any knowledge of anl senator casting a dishonest or corrup vote on the Liromer case?" asked Sen ator Jones.
 1 "Of course not The editorial was { mere arithmatical figure of speech" l Mir Hanecy had incorporated in thu record a portion of the Lorlmer expense account of the Tribune's Washington cor respondent, John Callan OLoughlin Il showed S2S0 had been paid for reportoria l assistance on the Lorimer case and S32, for the transcript of stenographic reports | of Iorimer speeches in the Senate l I-r Keeley was asked to give the 1. ] name of MT. Green, attorney for Glavis. | q do not know 1t, but MT. O'Loughlin does'
 What MT. OLoughlin?' inquired MT. Hanecy.
 '"rhe same one," replied MT. Keeley. How Governor Altgeld of Illinois lar doned former Cashier Louis A. Hillyer O. the Tribune, convicted for embszzlement and the claim of knowledge of under valuation on the Tribune's property for assessment purposes might ehaVe been . factor in the young mans fall, figured a; the outset of the hearing.