Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-07-14
Two Year Bitter Fight Ends
with Action Which Fol-
lowed Three DAYS of Re-
markable Speech of De-
Tense and Attack.
TNLMAN'S NOTE
CAUSE FOR TEARS
Unable to Make Own Speech
Clerk Reads Statement
from South Carolinan and
Eycites Deep Feeling.

WASHINGTON, July lG.-i}v
vote OF - to 2S the senate took
away from William Lorimer the seat
OF the junior senator from Illinois.
His election was held to have been
invalid. and he was declared TO
have been the recipient OF votes OBJ
tanned By corrupt methods and
practices" LOrimer had been a mem.
Der Of the senate since June. 1909.
The first suggestion OF fraud in
connection with his election became
public in April. 1910. when Charles
y. White, member of the Illinois
legislature. swoTe he received a ST.
O00 bride for voting for Lorimer. The
senate, by its action today. reversed
the majority of its own investigating
committee, and changed its vote ut
March, 1911, when Lorimer retained
his seat by sc 70 40 Technically.
Lorimer will pass out of the records
OF the senate as a member Of that
body, Notwithstanding his more thaa
three years occupancy OF his seat.
Friends Condole
Facing his associates with the dec
laratiOn. 4 am ready" I.Orimer sat
In the chamber and heard mis- fate
decreed as the roll call showed the
adoption of a resolution by Senator
Lee, OF Tennessee. the senate's
youngest member. The man who for
three days had held the senate in
close attention with his remarkable
speech Of defense and attack upon
MS enemies. rose YEARLY from his
seat and passed back TO the cloak
room door
Senators and members of the
house gathered about him. grasDing
MS hand and patting his back. out
,ide the senate door. as Iorimer
stepped into the corridor. friends
erected him again, and a party of
sisters of charity pushed forward and
eNf ressed regret at his expulsion. I'm
MS office, when a physician had Al.
tended him, he said he would nor
leaNe Washington before the first of
next week.
Defiance TO Enemies.
The outcome OF the vote was NOT
a surprise but the leaders fight
against him was NOT expected To re-
sun IN greater vote than 30 10 So.
Lorimer gained only one man who
voted against him in 1911, Jones OF
Washington while he los. the votes
OF his associate. Senator Cullom ana
or Senators Curtis OF Kansas, BRIGGS
OF New Jersey. Simmons Of New York
and Watson OF West Virginia
Lorimer's fight for his own official
life began early Thursday afternoon
When he concluded his eloquent dec
iara,iOn that he was not a corVard
and world not run In the face of
certain defeat a. two O'Clock this
afternoon he bad held the floor for
Twelve hours. with intermissions and
recesses 10 restore his strength. The
moving character OF his appeal was
admitted on every hand but it an
p9rently swayed no votes. Instead of
pleading the defense that had been
expected IL was throughout a ringing
defiance to those who opposed him
a declaration of his unfaltering belief
In the purity Of his election in I'M
nols and a promise not 10 give up his
light with his eviction from the SEN
ate
1T has been suggested that 7 re-
sign he said in closing his declara-
ZION. lie y so cOwardly as 10 run
because defeat stares him in the
face has no place in this body. Though
you all vote to turn me ont. though
every vote has been canvassed and
= against me, ! will not resign. My
exit from this body will not be from
fear Not because I am a coward.
u viii he because Of crime of the
senate Of the United States.
Senators Shed Tears
Only two incidents marked the
few minutes between the termination
Of lorimer's speech and taking of
roll call. One was to charge Senator
Dixon, Roosevelt's camraign manager
that che affidavits IDrimer intro
dnced to show attempted corruption
~ delegates 20 the Chicago conven-
tion we're malicious. deliberate false
hoods" The other was a request OF
Senator Tillman of South Carolina.
feeble from the effects of paralysis.