Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-21
NO NEW EVIDENCE SECURED
It Holds There is No Reason for
Reopening the Case.
MINORITY is FOR EXPULSION
Report Says Ten Votes Were Pur.
chased for the Senator.
SEVERE cENsURE FOR HINES
Action of Lnmber Magaate In Try
ing to Get witnesses beyond
Juri.dietion of the senate
is Condemncd.


WASHINGTON. May 0.-The case OF
Senator Lorlmer OF Illinois. whose cleo
tlon was alleged to have been brought
about through corruption. was placed
before the senate today for final action.
Majority and minority reports were made
By the special investigating committee.
the former upholding the latter nd con-
demninI the senator.
The majority reported:
THAT all the. rules OF law. judicial pro-
cedure and justice required that the
senate's former Judgment In senator
Lortmer's favor be held final and con-
elusive.
That there was absolutely no new and
substantial evidence discovered on this
relnvestigstlon his election being the
logical result OF existing political eondl-
tions In Illinois !"
The minority reported:
That the evidence presented at the
second lnvestigatlon was broader and
more far.reaching' than the previous In
aulry brought out, ~
That Is eonclusively established that
at least ten OF the votes cast for Lori
mer we're corrupt and that his election
therefore was Invalid"
The minority report was signed by Sem
etors Kern and Lea. democrats. and
Kenyon, republican. i.
Position Of Majority.
The majority took The position that the
senate having once solemnly and delin-
erately passed on the charges against
Senator Lorimer. he should be permit.
ted to retain his seat unless new AMI
convincing evidence had been produced
establishing corruption in his electI@~
Absolutely no new and substantial evt.
denee' had been produced al the re-
investigation. the majority said. and con-
seauently they declared the rules or
justice required the former Judgment 81
the senate upholding Mr.. Lorimer 70
stand.
The report dealt at length with the
evidence In an endeavor TO show nothing
substantial had been produced against
senator Icrimer, i, also reviewed the
legal authorities 10 ahow that the FIRST
investigation OF the senate should b.
taken AZ final
The controlling factor In the action 81
the senate In reopening the case. so the
majority said. was that a fund Of tioooec
was raised 10 secure the election OF SEN
ator Lorimer.
Fank's st.ry IL Rejected.
The majority rejected the version ciar-
ence 8 Funk, general manager Of thu
International Harvester company. saya
Of conversation he held with Edward
Hines. Il Chicago lumber man, In which
FUNK claims Hines asked for $1,000
contribution TO n 100000 Lorimer fund.
The majority said that Mr.. Funk's testi-
inony stood uncorroborsted BY other witt
ness or by other circumstances.
In view of the fact that II was known
to Air. Hines" said the cimmittee. that
the relations existing between the off,
GERS OF the international Harvester COM
pany and Mr.. Lorlmer were those of OPP
ponents rather than friends. II Is inn
probable that he would seek from Mr..
Funk contribution. Il appears that at
no previous time. nor even at that time.
aid Hines know whom Mr.. Funk pre-
terred for United states senator,
In discussing Mr.. Funk's testimony that
he had heard reports OF Mr.. Hines ae-
tlvities at Springfield. the majority de-
clared that such reports must havs
had birth IN Mr. funks imagination"
Comment Was passed on the fact that
for many months VI. II. Kohlsaat. editcr
Of the Chicago Record Herald, James
Kelley, editor Of the Chicago Tribune.
Victor L. Lawson. owner Of the Chicago
News and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
knew OF Mr.. Fnnk's version and nons
saw 1T to bring the information TO tho
attention OF any person connected with
any investigation.
"In fact, the Funk testimony" II is
said later In the report. has been taken
,um grano sails by nearly every one who
has heard IT, Mr.. Funk himself admitted
tina, re thought his story would not be-
htlieved."
Ceunure for white.
The sensational accounts BY former
State Representative Charles A. White OF
receiving Lorimer election money. was
pronounced 'as a pure fabrication 50 far
as It relates to the election of Senator
Lorimer.'
From a most exhaustive examination
and painstaking consideration OF all the
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