The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-01
ANOTHER DENIAL
IS ADDED TO LIST
Hines Contradicts Testimony
Given to Committee by
Herman Hettler.
CERTAIN ABOUT ALDRIcH
Could Not Be Mistaken in What
Senator Said About
Taft.

Washington. June so.-For Ave
hours to-day Edward Hines, the
wealthy Chicago lumberman, whose
name has been connected with an
alleged Lorimer election fund. under
went cross-examination before the
Senate Lorimer committee as to his
part in the election. When the com
mittee adjourned until tomorrow the
witness was told that mis- two-day
ordeal was ended
Botn senator Lorimer's friends and
opponents expressed satisfaction with
The result OF the cross examinat ton.
Attorney John Fl. Marble, who con-
Quoted 1t for the committee announced
during the day that he would follow
all leads which had been suggested 10
MIN, always with a view OF getting
At the truth and not to persecute any
one.
Contrndicts Hettler.
To the list OF those whose testimony
Mr.. Hines contradicted yesterday he
to-day added the names OF Herman II.
Hettler. president of big competing
lumber company, giving hts name, who
testified at Springfield The witness
claimed that reporter of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean, which. he said, was
rim on two or three points. c. II.
Weihe, Mr. Illness brother-i n-law.
and secretary OF the Edward Hines
Lumber Company. was stated to have
misunderstood a conversation when a
discrepancy between the Witness tes-
timony of Mr.. Wiehe's at the recent
Helm investigation at Springfield was
dwelt upon Time and again up to
the hour of adjournment the witness
"a ha ,i.yh
mistaken about Senator Aldrich hav-
ipg told him that President Taft
would do anything possible to assist
Mr.. Lorimer's election.
Were Senator Aldrich's words so
plain that you could not be mistaken"
insisted Mr.. Marble.
1T was impossible for me to hav.
been mistaken, because l put the sub
stance of what he said in a telegram
which | have replied the witness He
said he never had seen denial OF his
testimony from the White House. after
his testimony at Springfield.
The conflict in testimony between
Mr.. Wiche at Springfield. and the wit
ness came out in connection with Mr.
Illness sending Mr.. Wiche TO a hotel
In Chicago to get ". II Cook to stop
talking about the famous telephone
CONVERSE ton Mr.. Hines held from Mr.
COOKS room. In which MIR. Cook saIo
MIR Hines spoke about taking none
to Springfield TO assist Mr.. -orimer in
his fight for the senatorship.
Wanted Talk stopped.
Mr. fines had already said he
wanted the talk stopped because 1t
would he embarrassing to nave the
states attorney get hold OF the con-
versa ton. Mr.. Wiehe testified that
he was to see both Mr.. Cook and his
associate. MI. O'Brien, while Mr.. Hines
c eaia to-day he wSs merely to see Mr..
Hotel bills for rooms in Washing
ton during last February were intro
duced by Mr.. Hines to show. II posi-
BILE. tina: he was pot In Chicago in
that month, which was about the time
he is alleged. in testimony OF Clarence
s. Funk. general manager OF the IN
ternatlonal Harvester Company, TO
have called on Funk to refresh Funk's
memory Of the famous Union League,
conversation between the two men
On cross examination, Mr.. Hines said
he was at New York. Philadelphia and
baltimore during the period he had
room in Washington. and that the
bill would not show II he had gone -
Chicago. Mr.. Hines insisted. howeveH