Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-05-20

imagination"
Comment was passed on the fact
that for many months H. H. Kohlsaat
editor of the Chicago Record Herald
James Kelley, editor of the Chicago
Tribune: Victor F. lawson, owner OF
the Chicago News, and Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt knew OF Mr.. Funk's
position and none saw fit to bring
the information to the attention OF
any person connected with any In
vestigation.
I'm fact the Funk testimony the
report said. ''has been taken cum
grano sails by nearly everyone who
has heard it. Mr. Funk himself =
mitted that he thought his story
would not be believed"
The committee reported that it did
not find Mr.. Hines was flattered by
being consulted by Senators Aldrich
and Penrose in regard to the desire
to have some republican elected to
the senate from Illinois.
His sense of the Importance OF
the matter" it was said, was greatly
enhanced when he knew that they
had been in conference with the presI-
dent and that Mr.. Lorimer's candi-
dacy would not be Objectionable to
him"
Expert accountants employed by
the committee, it was stated, had
failed to find any evidence in the
books of Edward Hines or Edward
Tilden in connection with Lorimer
election fund.
The committee next considered the
testimony of William w. Burgess OIL
Duluth, Mimi, that c. F. Wiehe,
brother-in-law of Mr.. Hines, had stat
ed in smoking room of a sleeping
car that he had contributed $4,000
to the Lorimer election fund.
The reports stated with con-
vincing array of evidence in denial OF
all the facts contained in Mr.. Bur
CESS testimony, and in view of the
| improbability that a man of Mr..
Wiehe's intelligence and business ex-
perience should, in public place and
to an utter stranger, have confessed
to having part in ar Infamous pro
ceeding, this committee cannot 9TH
erwise than discard the testimony
of Mr.. Burgess as proof of any facts
alleged
The committee considered the at
tempt to impeach the testimony OF
Charles MCGOWAN, the young Cana
dian who testified in Wiehe's behalf
This Impeachment was sought by pri-
vate detectives with a stenographer
and telephone apparatus extending
into room in which Mr.. MCGOWAN
was supposed to have acknowledged
having periured himself. The com
mittee related an attempted repro.
duction of the condition under which
the stenographic report of Meow.
ans conversation was made, and add
! ed that the results were so disas-
trous to the claims made by the
stenOgrapher as to satisfy the com
mittee that no dependence whatever
could be placed upon his testimony.
The committee passed judgment
upon some of the prominent features
of the first investigation which were
the further subject of inquiry at the
second investigation. The sensations
al account by former State Represen
tative Charles A. White of receiving
Lorimer election money was pro
nouneed "as pure fabrication SO fan
] as it relates to the election of Senator
4 Lorimer."
The committee advanced the theo
nv that Instead of Senator Daniel w
Holstlaw having been pa1d $2,50O fol
having voted for LoriIner it might
have been paid by liquor interests te
defray his election expenses although
passing as dry
From consideration of all tht
circumstances 1t was explained
4the committee is satisfied thai
Holstlaws was the candidate Of the
liquor interests in his senatorial dis
trsct and was elected by them; that
he was subjected to large campaign
expenses, and money being dearer te
him than his reputation, he felt con
vinced that he would not be likely Z
incur such expenses unless assured
that ne would be reimbursed. 1t If
conceded that liquor legislation has
been one of the prominent and con
tinuing elements in the Illinois gen
. eral assembly, and John Broderick
being a saloon keeper in the city O
Chicago. was naturally representa-
; tive of the liquor interests and money
passing from him to Holstlaw is {
: feature of the case so suggestive II
the absence Of any other considera
! ton for it's payment as to raise /