Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-07-18
|LOR|MER LOST
SENATE CONTEST
NAME OF ILLINOIS POLITICIAN
STRICKEN FROM SENATE
ROLLS. THE VOTE.

Washington, July 13.-By a vote
of IS to 20, the United States SEN
ate today unseated William Lorimer,
the junior senator from Illinois, and
declared his title to his seat invalid.
The end of the long fight to oust
the senator came after six days of
protracted debate in which Senator
Lorimer himself had occupied the
floor for three sessions, making an
impassioned defense of his election.
The final vote was upon the reso-
luton 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 it
the senate's verdict that corrupt
practices were employed in the elec-
tion of William Lorimer," making
his election invalid.
HOW senators VOLeO.
The senators voting to unseat Lor-
inner were: Asherst, Bacon, Borah,
Bourne, Brigg, Bristow, Brown,
.. Bryan, Burton, Chamberlain, Clapp,
i Clarke of Arkansas, Crawford, Gull
+, lom, Cummins, Curtis, Dixon, Fall,
| Gardner, Gore, Gronna, Hitchcock,
! Johnson, Kenyon, Kern, LaFollette,
Lea, Lodge, Martin, MARITIME, Mey
ers, Nelson, Newlands, O'Gorman,
Overman, Page, Poindexter, Pomer-
| enc, Rayner, Reed, Root, Sanders,
! Shively, Simmons, Smith Of Arizona,
Smith of Georgia, Smith of Michi-
gan, Smith of South Carolina, Stone,
| Sutherland, Swanson, Townsend,
Watson, Williams, Works.
Those voting for Lorimer were:
Bailey, Bradley, Brandegee, Burn
ham, Catron, Clark of Wyoming,
Crane, Dillingham;, Fletcher, Foster,
/, Gallinger, Gamble, Guggenheim,
Johnston, Jones, Lippitt, McCumber,
Oliver, Paynter, Penrose, Perkins,
Richardson, Smith of Maryland,
Smoot, Stephenson, Thornton, Till
man, Wetmore.
AS recorded above, North Dakota's
senators were divided, Senator Nc
Cumber voting for Lorimer and
Senator Gronna voting against Lor-
liner.
OF the senators voting against
Lorimer, twenty-seven were Repub-
licans and twenty-eight Democrats.
Many Sensations in Case.
In the two years that Senator Lor-
liners election has been under fire,
it probably has furnished more SEN
sations than any other case Of its
kind. Mr.. Lorimer was elected by
the Illinois legislature on May 27,
1909, after a prolonged deadlock in
which the names of more than one
hundred candidates, Democrats and
Republicans, had been presented un-
successfully. However, it was not
until nearly year later that the va
lidity of his election was challenged
and the now famous confession" of
Charles A. White, member of the
Illinois legislature, charging that he
had received $1,000 from Lee o.
Neill Brown, Democratic leader of
the Illinois house of representatives
in return for his vote for Senator
Lorimer and also 5000 as share
of a general corruption fund.-"
Then in rapid succession followed
sensational series of Confession"
by other members of the legislature.
These confessions, however, were
later modified or repudiated with the
exception of Whites. The other men
asserted they had received the mon
ey out of general fund and not in
return for their Lorimer votes, and,
in some cases, charged intimidation
by Cook county authorities to wiring
the confessions from them.
Browne Acquitted by Jury.
Lee O'Neill Browne was charged
with distributing "Lorimer money
but was acquitted by jury, and
other indictments were quashed.
Charges of jury bribing in the
Browne case were unsustained in
court.
A committee Of the United States
senate reported that the charges OF
corruption were not proved and held
Senator Lorimer's title to his seat
valid. Immediately afterward the
Illinois senate appointed q commit
tee Of its own to investigate. and
this committee reported that Lori
mer would not have been elected
without bribery and corruption, and