The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-04-05

20 CIVIC reception Wednesday even
ing by the lord mayor and municipal
authorities Of Belfast
pot in the Illinois general assembly
OF 1909 in connection with his election
and, fatty, that no corrupt practices
had been shown by the investigation.
The case will be squarely before
the senate probably next week when
a protracted debate will begin. Meth
er side has made thorough canvass
Of the situation. Republican leaders
point out that there will be about q
new senators to vote on the case in
addition to those who have already
voted on substantially the same
charges.
The basis of the committees action
was the plea raised by Lorimer's coun.
sci that the previous action of the
senate bars reconsideration.
The majority report on the main
proposition will be signed by Senators
Dillingham;, Gamble, F1etche.. John
ston and Jones. and the minority by
Senators Kenyon, Kern and Lea.
Senator Jones was against Senator
Lorimer on the first investigation. He
reversed his position and presented
three of the leading resolutions to ex.
onerate Lorimer.
The contention of the minority mem.
bers will be that the senate passed
on the question of the former ad-
judication when II ordered the present
investigation. Their viewpoint is that
the new investigation has developed
much pertinent to Lorimer's election.
which the old committee failed to dis
cover, so that doubts as to the correct
ness of State Senator Holstlaw's con.
fession have been dispelled; that
States Attorney Wayman of Chicago
has clearly refuted the claim that co
ercion was used to extort confessions
and that Representative Whites con.
fession was corroborated in many par.
ticulars. They claim that the res.
pudicata plea is a lawyers subterfuge
to befog the real issue.
Use for Panama Machinery.
Washington, ID. G. Secretary
Fisher is urging the house to clothe
the federal government with imme-
date authority to use the construction
equipment and supplies on the Pana-
ma canal, as they are released there
by completion of the work. for build
ing a government railroad in Alaska
from tidewater at Resurrection Bay
to the Yukon Valley. Chairman Flood
of the house territories committee has
prepared a bill to provide for re-
port upon such n project to some fu-
ture session of congress-
Secretary Fisher, in a letter to Rep
Booher of Missouri, makes
some suggestions for changes in the
Flood bill and also outlines a substi-
tute measure to provide for immediate
action. The secretary presses the
point that if legislation be delayed,
of the Panama canal con-
struction equipment will not be prac-
ticable. He calls attention to the gov
ernment's engineering feat at Pana-
ma under very simple act of con-
gress and wishes to apply the same
measures to the railroad in Alaska.
Resurrection Bay has already been
selected as a coaling station site by
the navy department.
Admit New Senators.
Washington ID. C.-Four sena.
tors from the two new states of Ari.
iona and New Mexico will this week
enlarge the membership of the upper
branch of congress to 90. The new
men, all lawyers. are Marcus Aurelius
Smith of Tucson and Henry +. Ashurst
OF Prescott, Ariz.. democrats, who
will be sworn in at the bar of the SEN
ate today. and Thomas Benton Catron
of Santa Fe, and Albert Bacon Hill of
Three Rivers, New Mexico, republi-
cans, who may not arrive from New
Mexico in time for installation to-
day.
These four new senators will change
the political strength of the senate to
consist OF 81 republicans and AZ demo-
Gratis. The death of Senator Taylor
of Tennessee reduced what would have
been a representation of A.
Torpedo Boats to be Sunk.
Washington, ID. c. Three torpe.
do boats, the Gushing. Mckee and
Ericsson, have been DESIGNATED
by the navy department TO serve as
targets for bombardment by the dread.
naughts in the Atlantic fleet.
Primary for Maryland.
AnnannIiS Narvlona