The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-28
PHENSON WON CONTEST
VENERABLE WISCONSIN sENA- TOR WILL RETAIN HIS SEAT
 IN THE u. S. SENATE.
Body Rejects the Charge that s1o7,000 Was Spent in campaign-stephen- son Says He Never Spent
 Dollar WrongfuIly.

Washington, D. C., March 27.-Sen- ator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin. octegenarian, millionaire banker and 1 lumberman, retains his seat in the | United States senate. By a vote Of 40 to 34 the senate today declared The senator admitted spending in the Wisconsin primaries had been used corruptly.
 Twenty-eight republicans and 12 democrats voted to hold Stephensons election valid. Eighteen democrats and 16 republicans voted to declare it Corruptly obtained The ballots were cast as follows
 For Stephenson-B Bradley, Brande- gee, Briggs, Burnham, Burton, Clark of Wyoming, Crane Curtis, Dilling- ham, Dupont, Gamble, Heyburn, Lip pitt, Lodge, Lorimer, McCumber, Mo Lean, Nixon, Oliver, Page, Penrose, | Perkins, Richardson, Root, Smoot. Sutherland, Warren and Wetmore, re- pnblicans; Bankhead, Chiffon. Fletch- CT, Foster, Johnston, Newlands, Over man, Pomerone, Rayner, Smith of Maryland, Watson and Thornton, dems ocrats.
 Against Stephenson-Borah, Bourne, Bristow, Brown, Glapp, Crawford. Cummins, Dixon, Gronna, Jones. Ken von. La Toilette. Poindexter, Smith of Michigan. Townsend and Works, republicans; Bryan, Chamberlain, Gull person, Gardner, Hitchcock, demo- crats.
 The pairs were Nelson with Ba. con, Gallinger with Clarke of Arkan- sas, Guggenheim with Davis, Cullom
 with Simmons, Paynter with Gore and
 Bailey with Reed, the first named In each case being for Stephenson, and the last against him. The senator's impaired unrecorded were Martin and Swanson, Virginia; Taylor. Tennes-
 see; Tillman, South Carolina; and Mir Stephenson who, of course. re-
 trained from voting. For Senator
 Taylor MT. Lea explained he was too l, i'll to be consulted.
 Senator Stephenson declared he felt yindication was due to him.
 q never spent dollar wrongfully in my life,g said he. "In sixty-six years of active management of large investments l have employed severaf thousand men, three generations of I used a dollar for fraud of any kind"
 Senator Lorimer, whose vote far Senator Stephenson was greeted with an outburst Of laughter in the sen ate galleries, is under similar charges.
 The vote came at the end of g days speechmaking by Senators Pomerene and Sutherland for Mir. Stephenson, and Senators Cummins. Lea, O'Gof- man and Poindexter against him. Mir. Poindexter declared Senator Stephen sons alleged offense was greater than that charged against Senator Lorimer. Senator Lea said Senator Stephensons workers had violated the ] rnlas- af ardinaru d0aann.s and nra-a priety and had wept because there was nothing left to violate
 The special committee of eight sem ators which has been Investigating the election of Senator Lorimer to- day, indicated in a test vote that it stands to 3 in his favor.
 The majority of the committee has adopted the contention of Senator L0r- imer's counsel. that the senate, hav- ing passed upon the senator's case only. and declared his election valid cannot try him again on the same charge Such a resolution will be re- ported by majority of the commit I tee.
 A motion today to close the commit tees work with It's report tomorrow was defeated, to g. his vote was taken as a forecast of h. the com mittee stands on the case ~
 The senators voted not to clI tn- morrow:
 Dillingham;, Gamble. Jones, John 1 ston and Fletcher
 These senators voted to close to- morrow:
 | Kenyon, Kern and Lea {, Consideration of resolution declar- ing inc first investigation of Senator 1 Lorimer's resolution acts as bar to l second aud certainly will delay and 1 may intimately prevent the senate's second consideration of the famous 1 case.
 From the voting it appears that a | majority of the Investigating com mittee favor Lorlmer. the personnel of the senate has so changed since the first investigation that the out come if the case comes to vote is q conjecture.