Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-28
HELPING LOR|MER
WAS HINES HABIT,
WITNESS CLAIMS
Lumber Mans Wagons We're
Placarded with vote for
LOrimer" Streamers.

WASHINGTON. June 2s.-Edward
Hines, the Chicago lumber millionaire,
who. 1t has been testified, had said he
put Lorimer over at Springfield" vas
today excluded from the room where
the Senate committee is holding its
investigation into the election of SEN
ator Lorimer. This action was taken
,...tt.e at an executive ses-
sion.
The committee considered 1t inadvis-
able that MI. Hines should be per-
mitted to listen to the testimony.
Since Clarence S. Funk, of Chicago.
took the stand Mr.. Hines had been al
lowed to be present in the commit
tee room and lear the witnesses whose
evidence largely had centred about his
alleged remarks about the Lorimer
election expense.
Rush Culver, a lumberman and law
yer, of L'Anse, Mich, was the first
witness today before the Senate Lori
mer committee. When the Lorimer in
v~estigation was on before the Helm
committee of the Illinois Legislature
Shelly b.. Jones, of Marquette, Mich,
was reported to have stated that Gull
yer was present on an occasion in 1903
when Edward Hines, millionaire lum-
herman, declared he had just succeed
ed in making a United States senator
that cost a hundred thousand dollars"
AS soon as Mr.. Culver was sworn the
committee went into executive session,
after which he began his testimony
by saying he had been mayor of Mar
quette, Mich. He then told of BUSH
ness relations with Edward Hines.
Testimony Contrndicted.
Contradicting some of the testimony
at the Springfield investigation he said
he had not seen Hines since Lorimer's
election to the Senate. II have no rec
objection of discussing Senator Lorimer
with Hines. On one or two occasions
he told me he was friendly to Lorimer
and it seems to me once in Chicago we
saw some wagons of the Edward Hines
Lumber Company. decorated with
Vote for Lorimer."
1T seems to me Mr.. Hines has said
to me that he had been in the habit of
helping out Senator Lorimer. He GER
tainly referred to congressional cleo
tons.
my memory is that he said he would
decorate wagons for Lorimer and would
help him to raise campaign funds"
The witness could not remember a
convention in Shelly B.. Jones's drug
store in 1907, nor at any other. time.
when Jones is said to have declared
hat Hines referred to the Lorimer
election as costing "a barrel of money"
Couldn't Get Andavit.
Mr.. Culver complained that though
he had given to two publications a
copy of an affidavit he had made last
April. Incorporating the substance Of
his testimony today, he had been n
able to get 1t printed.
"Ill get it printed for you" volun-
teered Attorney Healy. "I'l put 1t in
the record" and he did.
Senator Kenyon sought a little
political pleasantly with Mr.. Culver.
You say you are a Democrat?"
Yes"
The witness added that he favored
a tariff on lumber
What kind of a Democrat are you,
a protection Democrat?"
mo. Just a plain Democrat"
Hugh Mclean, a lumber man, of
North Tonawanda, N. Y, was the mex
witness.
Adherents of Senator Lorimer had
their innings today before the Senate
committee investigating his election.
when Hugh Mclean, of North Tona-
wanda, N. Y, and John Mcleod. Of
Buffalo, N. Y, both lumbermen, wore
hat they knew absolutely nothing
about the raising of a fund to elect
Senator Lorimer.
Both men came to Washington on
different occasions, as members of del
! egations interested in lumber legisla-
ton, each time meeting Edward Hines.
the Chicago lumber man, who was
charged with saying he raised money
ito put Lorimer over at Springfield. !"
Mr.. Mclean testified that the only
thing Mr.. Hines had ever mentioned
to him about the Lorimer election was
that the newspapers only printed one
side of the matter.