The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-21
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 would have unreservediy revealed it un- der the circumstances described by MT. Funk, and in any case to person with whom he had so slight an acquaintance and at time when the election was so fresh in the minds of the public. And particularly when it appears that at no previous time, not even at that time, did MT. Hines know whom MT. Funk preferred for d United States senator"
 In discussing MT. Funks testimony that he had heard reports of MT. Hines activities at Springfield, the majority de- clared that such reports must have had birth in MT. Funks imagination"
 Comment on Delay
 Comment was passed on the fact that for many months H. H. Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago Record-Herald, James Kee- ley, editor of the Chicago Tribune, Vic tor F. Lawson, owner of the Chicago News, and Col Theodore Roosevelt knew of Nr Funks version and none saw fit to bring the information to the atten- ton of any person connected with any investigation,
 Tn fact, the Funk testimony" it was said later in the report, has been talk ing cum grano sails by nearly every one who has heard 1t. MT. Funk himself admitted that he thought his story would not be believed"
 The committee reported that it did find that MT. Hines was flattered by being consulted by Senators Aldrich and Pen rose 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 er- hanced when he knew that they had been in conference with the President and that MT. Lorimers candidacy would not be objectionable to him, and that to be en- trusted with the responsibility of making known their wishes and explaining the attitude of the President to Governor De- neen and MT. Lorimer was personal honor
 Expert accountants employed by the committee, it was stated. had failed to find any evidence in the books of Edward Hines or Edward Tilden of connection with Lorimer election fund
 Burgess Testimony Examined
 The committee next considered testi- mony of William NJ. Burgess of Duluth, Minn., that C. F. Wiehe brother-in-law of Mr. Hines, had stated in a smoking loom of a sleeping car out of Duluth last March that he had contributed slc.00O to a Lorimer election fund. Contradictory testimony or others on the tram was com mented upon with this concluding state ment:
 With convincing array of evidence in denial of all the facts contained in MT. Burgess testimony, and in view of the improbablity that man of MT. Wiehe's intelligence and business experience should, in a public place and to an utter stranger, would have confessed to having rart in an infamous proceeding, this conl- mittee cannot do otherwise than discard the testimony of Mir Burgess as proof of any facts aleged.'
 In this connection the committee con sidered the attempt to impeach the testi- many of Charles McGowan, the young Canadian who testified in Wiehe's behalf. This impeachment was sought by private detectives with stenographer and tele- phonic apparatus extending into room in V hch MT. McGowan was supposed to have acknowledged having pertured him. self. The committee related an attempted reproduction of the conditions under which the stenographic report of Me Gowan's conversation was made. and added that the results were so disastrous 10 the claims made by the stenographer as to satisfy the committee that no de- pcndence whatever could be placed upon lis 'etimcny.
 The committee passed judgment upon some of the prominent features of the first investigation which were the further