Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-13
Challenge to
 Senator Kern
LoRIMER DEFrEs HIS INDIANA
 COLLEAGUE
ASKED TO MAKE GOOD
Illinois Senator Calls Upon Kern b
 Point Out Any Wrongdofnss by Former-Vote May Be Taken Today.

Washington, July 12.-The senate failed again today to vote on the Lea resolution to declare vacant the seat of William Lorimer of Illinois. Con- sideration for Senator LOrimer. who held the floor for five hours with the continuation of his speech defending his title, induced the senate to recess at 40 o'clock until ten o'clock tomor- row morning. An effort will be made to reach the final vote tomorrow but bitter attack upon Senator Kern of Indiana which characterized Mir. Lori- mer's speech today and possible injec- tiOn of arguments by Senator La Fol- lette or others, may prOlong the debate into next week. Mir. Lorimer charged Senator Kern with mistating the facts of the Lorimer case with shining and smearing over the record" and with making charges against him (Lori- mer) for which there was no ground of fact or evidence.
 Lorimer Challenges Kern. | MT. Lorimer issued a direct chal- | lenge to Senator Kern to point to
 anything in his private. financial. 1 commercial or political llfe' where Mir. | Lorimer had been guilty of any wrong l doing. He pledged himself 10 resign | relieve the senate of the embarrass- ment of vote" and walk from the senate chamber never to return Senator Kern made good"
 Here and Now 1 Challenge Him."
 q have been charged by this sena- tor from Indiana on the floor of the
 senate with political wrongdoing." i Lorimer cried. Here and now, challenge him to point out to this 1 senate anything in his record, any
 thing 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 have been guilty of wrongdoing in
 private, in commercial. in financial or
 in political life and if he will do it
 here and now, I'll not embarrass you
 by voting on my case. When he has
 done it 1 will walk out of wonder door
 and never occupy my seat again in
 this chamber. Come on, Senator
 Kern, you have simed and Gmeared
 this record with suspicion, come on
 now and make good"
 Kern Expected to Make Reply.
 The Indiana senator was absent
 from the chamber during the Lorimer
 attack as were Sena tors Lea and Ken yon, against whom MT. Lorimer had
 also been bitterly denunciatory dur ing his speech When Senator Kern
 returned later to the chamber the
 impression spread that he would answer Senator Lorimer's charges be- fore the final vote is taken.
 MT. Lorimers challenge to ths mi- nority members of the Lorimer in- vestigating committee to produce the
 evidence to bear out their alleged ''in- situations" as to lis connection with
 bribery in the Illinois legislature was but one feature of several that made Lorimer's defense today partake of the
 spectacular He assailed Kern as the Pharisee who sat before him with a
 holier than-thou expression upon his face. He characterized him as hav- ing been chasing the ghost in the
 Baltimore convention.
 Reviewed Evidence in His Case.
 The evidence upon which Lorimer's } expulsion from the senate is demand ed was taken up in detail by the ac- l cused senator He reviewed the case t of the -four confessors" as he term . ed them, upon whose alleged con-
 fessions that they had received mon ' ey at Springfield, Ill, much of the , case against him had been built. 3 Charles A. White, he said, was an ac- . knowledged perjurer while he de- 8 clared that Beckemeyer Link and
 Holstlaw, the other three, had never ] tOilltnStu lb bDiiAN R'Au any NttAtA1 AfA - voting for LOrimer
 Proceedings Intended to Destroy Lor- inner.
 ] Lori1ner declared that the proceed
 ings against Beckemeyer in Cook
 county had not been intended Co dis
 close corruption in the Illinois legisla r ture, but to destroy Lorimer. He said = Beckemeyer never said anything aboui n 'Iorimer money" until subjected tC = the third degree a process also in-
 flicted upon Hostlaw. He declared
 that if Lee O'Neill Browne had sur r rendered he never would have been q subjected to trial