The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
Illinois Senator in Despera- tion Hurls Out Angry
 Words at His Foes
HUGE CONSPIRACY
 AGAINST ONE MAN
Says Never Before Has Spectacle of President and Ex-President Ar rayed to Drive One Man
 From Public Life

Senator Lorimer, who held the floor for five hours with the continuation of his speech defending his title, induced the Senate to recess at 4:10 o'clock until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 An effort will be made to reach the final vote tomorrow, but bitter at tack upon Senator Kern of Indiana. which characterized MT. Lorimer' s speech today and possibly injection of arguments by Senator LaFollette or others may prolong the debate into next week MT Lorimer charged Sem ator Kern with misleading the facts of the Lorimer case with "sliming and smearing over the record" and with making charges against him (Lorimer) for which there was no ground of fact or evidence.
 MT. Lorimer issued a direct chal- lenge to Senator Kern to point to 'anything in his private. financial commercial or political life" where ne had been guilty of any wrong dolns. He pledged himself to resign relieve the Senate of the embarrassment of a vote' and walk from the Senate chamber never to return if Senator Kern made good.'
 Kern Was Absent
 The Indiana senator was absent. dur ing the Lorimer attack, as were Sem ators Lea and Kenyon, against whom MT Lorirner also had been bitterly denunciatory during his speech. When Senator Kern returned later to the chamber the impression spread that he would answer senator Lorin,er charges before the final vote is taken. MT. Lorimer's challenge to the mi- nority members of the investigating 8 committee to produce evidence to pear out their alleged "insinuations as 10 his connection with bribery in the llll- nois legislature was but one feature of several that made Lorimers defense today partake of the spectacular He assailed Kern as the Pharisee who sat before him with a "holier-th thou expression upon his face. He charac- terized him as having been chasing the ghost" in the Baltimore conven- ton.
 Discusses Evidence
 The evidence upon which his expulsion from the Senate is demanded was taken m in detail by the accused senator. He reviewed the cases of the Tour con fessors,t' as he termed them, upon whose alleged confessions that they had received money at Springfield. H., much or the case against him had been built. Charles A White. he said, was an acknowledged perjurer; while he declared that Beck emeyer, Link and Holstlaw, the other three. never had confessed to being paid anything for voting for Lorimer.
 Mir Lorimer said the proceeding against Beckemeyer nCook county had not been intended to disclose corruption in the H. linois legislature but to destroy Lori mer He said Beckemeyer never said anything about "Lorimer money until subjected to the third degree" pro- cess also inflicted upon HolstiAw. He de- clared that if Lee O'Neil Brown had sur rendered he never would have been sub- jected to trial.
 Challenge to Kern
 '.I have been charged by this senator from Indiana on the floor of the Senate with political wrongdong, Lorimer cried. Here and now I challenge him to point out to this Senate anything in this record. anything he knows, anything he has ever heard anything anybody has ever told him-I will make 1t broader than that let him point to anything where l have ben guilty of wrongdoing in private, in commercial, in financial in political life, and if he will do it heer and now I'll not embarrass you by voting on my case. When he has done 1t I will walk out of wonder door and never occupy my seat again in this chamber.
 "Come on, Senator Kern, you have slirr1ed and smeared this record with sus- picion, come on now and make good"
 There was craning of necks toward Sen ator Kern's seat, but he was not visible in the chamber.
 Iorimer repeatedly challenged the n1i- nority members of the Investigating com- mittee Senators Lea, Kern and Kenyon, to refute his statements or to produce proof of the charges they had made in their speeches.
 ''I challenge the members of the mi nority here and now to produce any proof L true" he cried. Let's have it, if it is the truth; and if not, let's denounce it as a misstatement of the record and a deliberate effort to mislead the Senate.' MT. Lorimer declared that when he had observed the Indiana senator's ''holier-than-thou expression,' he had been reminded of the Pharsee who had mi prayer said:
 T thank Thee, o Lord, that I am not like other men, and especially this pub lican."
 MT Lorimer took up the testimony of Clarence s. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester company, who testified that Edward Hines had asked him for money to pay for the Lorimer election.
 He declared it had been shown conclu- sively that Hines was in Washington and not in Chicago at the time the conversa- tion with Funk was alleged to have taken place.
 Funk's statement that the International Harvester company never made campaign contributions was contradicted
 Two Illinois Men
 T state it to you on my honor as a man and senator,' Lorimer said, that if you ever have another investigation I will bring witnesses to prove that l met two Illinois men,, one democrat and the other republican, the latter of whom told me he had received several contribu- tions from Funk, and the former that Funk had given him $5000 for a demo- cratic campaign In view of these facts would take MT. Hines testimony in preference to MT Funk's.'
 Mir. Lorimer confessed to friendly re- lations with Mir. Hines. but said that he seldom saw him.
 Let me ask you lawyers" said Lori mer If you had poor criminal here, would you convict him that kind of testimony? Would you consider it?" ,< Special denial of all charges and intima- tions of complicity in fraud in his cleo tion were made by Senator I.ormer today in the first three hours he occupied the floor of the Senate.
 His speech. after the recess from yes- terday, combined again bitter attack on
 
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