The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-02
.LORIMER ON
 TRIAL AGAIN
SUBCOMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE MANNER OF THE ILLINOIS
 ELECTION.
Split" Jury of Senators to Make the Investigation--La Foliette's New Committee Resolution
 is Lost.

Washington, June 1.-Senator Lori mer of Illinois faces another inyesti- gation at the hands of his colleagues. The inquiry will be conducted by a subcommittee of the committees on privileges and elections, composed ot four republicans and four democrats. four of whom voted for the eenvic ton and four for the acquittal of the senator last session. The method se,- ected Is regarded as the latest thing in jury trials.
 1t took seven hours debate to agree upon the system and it was finally adopted by vote of 48 to 20, being substituted for the plan urged by Senator La Toilette of turning the case over to five senators who were not members when the case was vo ed upon before and therefore. were sup posed to he unbiased.
 Before the vote was taken Senator Bristow, who favored the La Toilette pan accused Senator Dillingham;. chairman and the lection committee or having capitulated in the Interest of a democratic sentiment of turning the investigation over to sub committed. This charge was bas q upon the fact that the author of he resolution adopted was Senator Martin. the democratic leader. Mir. Bristow also claimed the old guard republicans had formed an alliance with the demo- erats and that they had placed the mantle Of Aldrich' upon the shoul- ders of Martin.
 That the committee on privileges and elections had shirked it's duty in the former investigator was charged unreservedly by the supporters of the La Toilette resolution. Senator Lea of Tennessee said he would no more turn the case over to the elections com mittee for another trial than he would submit to second operat on for appendicitis by a surgeon who had failed from the first operation to To- cate the appendix. Senator Kenyon of Iowa. recently assistant to the attor- ney general. intimated that the great trusts had busied themselves With the election of senators so as to influence the selection of United States dis. trict attorneys whose friendship might be useful in the case of prosecutions. The defense of the Martin resoiu- tion was conducted by Senators Dill ingham, Martin. Bacon, Stone and others. both republicans and demo- crats.
 Most of the insurgent republican senators voted against substituting the Martin resolution. Of the twenty negative votes. 13 were cast by repup- | licans. Borah, Bourne. Brlstow, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Dixon J. Kenyon, La Toilette, Perkins and | Poindexter, and seven democrats, Davis, Hitchcock. Lea. Maritime. New lands, Owen and Pomerene.
 The resolution adopted merely pro vides that the investigation shall be conducted by the election committee.
 It was in connection with the under standing on the part of many sena-
 tors that a bi partisan and bi-Lori-
 mer committee was to be named that brought out most of the criticism.
 The discussion of the alleged agree ment as to the delegation of the in
 quiry to a sub committee was precipi- tated bv Mir. Bristow. He said he had
 been advised that the investigation
 was not to be made by the committee
 as a whole, but by subcommittee,
 and that the leaders of the republican
 and democratic parties had reached
 an understanding concerning the
 committees personnel. In discussing
 what he ermed the "capulation' of
 Senator Dillingham;, he said he accept
 ed this act as n temporary transfer.
 ence of leadershop to the democratic
 side. It was with feeling of regret The said. that he saw the mantle of AL
 drich fall upcn the shoulders of a
 democrat. but he added that he found
 consolation in the fact that trans fer had become necessary
 1 "Mr Gallinger had not been able to
 don the mantle.n said MT. Bristow,
 and 1t had not been found to Tit Mir
 Penrose. For some strange reason il
 had not been rendered to Mir. Lodge