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SEN, .LOR|MER IS
UNSEATED 55-28
ELECTION OF ILLINOIS STATES.
MAN 10 DECLARED INVALID
~ SENATE DECISION.
WAS ONCE INDICATED
End Of Fight Comes After Six Days
Of Protraeted Dsbate-Many
Sensations In
Case,

Washington, July 15.-By . vote Of
b6 to 20, the United States senator un.
seated William Lorimer, the junior
senator from Illinois, and declared his
title to his seat invalid.
The end Of the long fight to GUST the
senator came after six days Of pro
tracted debate in which Senator Lori.
mer himself had occupied the floor for
three sessions, making an impassioned
defense of his election.
The final vote was upon the resolu.
ton offered by Luke Lea, senator
from Tennessee, declaring the Lori.
mer election by the Illinois legisla.
ture in 1909 invalid. The adoption Of
the Lea resolution carried with 1t the
senate's verdict that corrupt meth.
DDS and practices were employed in
the election Of William Lorimer,"
making his election invalid.
The senators voting to unseat Lori
mer were: Asherst, Bacon, Borah,
Bourne. Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Bry.
an, Burton, Chamberlain, Clapp.
Clarke Of Arkansas, Crowford, Cullom,
Cummins, Curtis, Dixon. Fall. Gardner.
Gore, Gronna, Hitchcock, Johnson,
Kenyon, Kern. La Toilette, Lea, Lodge.
Martin. MARITIME, Meyers, Nelson, New.
lands, O'Gorman, Overman, Page,
Poindexter, Pomerene. Rayner, Reed,
Root, Sanders, Shively, Simmons,
Smith Of Arizona, Smith of Georgia,
Smith, Of Michigan, Smith Of South
Carolina, Stone, Sutherland, Swanson,
Townsend, Watson, Williams, Works.
Those voting for Lorimer were:
Bailey, Bradley. Brandegee, Burnham,
Catron, Clark Of Wyoming, Crane. Dill.
bingham, Fletcher, Foster. Gallinger,
Gamble, Guggenheim, Johnston, Jones.
Lippitt, McCumber, Oliver, Paynter,
Penrose, Perkins, Richardson, Smith
Of Maryland, Smoot. Stephenson,
Thornton, Tillman, Wetmore.
OF the senators voting against Lori
mer, twenty-seven were republicans
and twenty-eight democrats.
In the two years that Senator Lori.
mer's election has been under fire it
probably has furnished more sensa-
tons than any other case of its kind.
wi. 4O4AmOAO wac CiCSICO luc
nois legislature on May q, 1909, after
q prolonged deadlock in which the
names Of more than one hundred can
didates, democrats and republicans,
had been presented unsuccessfully.
However, 1t was not until nearly q
year later that the validity of his cleo.
ton was challenged when the now IA,
: nous confession" of Charles A.
White. q member Of the Illinois legis.
lature, was published, charging that
be had received $1,000 from Lee
O'Neill Brown. democratic leader of
the Illinois house of representatives in
return for his vote for Senator Lori.
mer and also 5000 as a share of q
general corruption fund"
Then In rapid succession followed
q sensational series of Confessions
by other members Of the legislature.
These confessions. however, were later
modified or repudiated with the excep-
ton Of Whites. The other men as.
serted they had received the money
out of a general fund and not in re.
turn for their Lorimer votes, and, in
same cases. charged intimidation by
Cook county authorities to wiring the
confessions from them.