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OFFERED 70 Walk OUT
II KERN Gould POINT TO ANY
WRONG DOING nE HND
COMMITTED.
Vote AGAIN POSTPONED
New issues May Postpone the Finn
Vote until Early Next.
Week.

WASHINGTON, July 70 The sen.
ate fsiled again today to vote on the
Lea resolution TO declare vacant the
seat OF William Lorimer Considera-
tion for Senator Lorimer, who held the
floor for five hours with the continu-
alton OF his speech defending his title
induced the senate to recess at 4:l0
until 10 tomorrow morning.
An effort win be made TO reach the
final vote tomorrow, but "a bitter at
tack upon Senator Kern, Of Indiana,
which characterized Mr.. Lorlmer's
speech today and possibly the injection
| OF message by Senator La Toilette
or others may prolong the debate into
next week. Mr.. Lorlmer charged Sem
ator Kern with mis-stating the facts
! OF the Lorimer case, with shining
and smearng over the record" and
with making charges against him
! (Lorimer) for which there was moth
Ing to base IL on.
Can Kern make Good"
Mr.. Lorimer challenged Kern to
point to anything in his private. IL
nanclal, commercial or political life"
where he had been guilty of any
wrong doing. He pledged himself TO
relieve the senate of the embarrass-
ment of vote" and walk from the
senate chamber, never TO return II
Senator Kern made good"
The Indiana senator was absent dur
Ing the Lorimer attack as were Sem
ators Lea and Kenyon, against whom
Mr.. I.orimer also had been bitterly de-
mandatory during his speech. When
Senator Kern returned later to the
chamber the impression prevailed
that he would answer Senator Lor-
liners challenge before the final vote
Is taken.
Mr. Lorimer's challenge to the mi
nority members Of the Investigating
committe to produce evidence to bear
out their alleged "inslnuations." as to
his connection with bribery in the IL
linois Legislature, was but one feature
OF several that made Lorimer's defense
today partake OF the spectacular. He
asasiled Kern as the Pharisee who sat
before him with "holier- than thou
terized him as having been Chasing
ghost"
Told of the Confession"
The view upon which his exclusion
from the senate Is demanded was taxi
en- up in detail by the accused SEN
ator He reviewed the cases of the
-four confessors." as he termed them,
upon whose alleged confessions that
they had received money at Spring
field, ILL.,, much Of the case against
him had been built. Charles A. White,
he said, was a perjurer, while he de-
clared that Beckmeyer Link and Holt
saw, the other three never had con-
fessed to being paid anything for vot-
ng for Lorimer.
Mr.. Lorimer said the proceedings
against Beckemeyer in Cook county
had not been intended to disclose cor
ruption in the Illinois legislature, but
to destroy Lorimer. He said Becke-
meyer never said anything about
''Lorimer money" until subjected to
the third degree" a process also in
fluenced upon Hotslaw. He declared
that If Lee O'Neil Brown had surren-
dered he never would have been sub
jected to trial.
Renewing his attack upon his oppo-
nents, Senator Lorimer today began
! the conclusion of a speech defending
his right to a seat in the federal sen
ate.
I His belligerent attitude of yester-
day when he asked for no quarter
but assaied those who had been active
In prosecuting him was apparent from
/ the outset He launched once more
into an attack upon Col. Roosevelt
and characterized as inaccurate and
unreliable the report of the minority
members Of the committee which has
Investigated his election.
His attack upon Col. Roosevelt when
he opened his speech was based upon
testimony given by George B. Cortel-
you yesterday before n senate commit
tee regarding the $1,000, 900 campaign
fund raised for the republican cam
paign in 1904. Mr.. Lorimer referred
to Colonel Roosevelt as the "cus-
todian of all the morals of the coun-
try, private and public"
"Of course" he exclaimed, mot q
cent Of that s1,900,000 could have
been contributed by the predatory
wealth of the country Surely all oil
It was the free gift of the common
people for whom this man Is the great
champion. No malefactor contribute
ed to that fund-only the common
people of whom he was the guardian.
The letter from President Taft tc
Col Roosevelt expressing the hope
that Lormer would be ousted, which
became public in the pre-copyentior
campaign, was taken up by Lorimer
He drew attention to President Taft's
phrase emphasizing the necessity OF
winning"
WAS ever mortal man more com.
petely surrounded by conspiracy ant
intrigue?" exclaimed Lorimer dramat.
ically
THE president of the United States
William Taft; Theodore Roosevelt, the
ex-president: former democratic
candidate for the presidency. william
J. Bryan, and the trust press of ths
, country. all in tall Joined in tn,