The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
LORIMER, BEATEN BUT NOT BROKEN, LEAVES SENATE
 CHAMBER FOR LAST TIME
LORIMER PASSES

ilC hdAioI ONlo Ol idilS III k galleries were held motionless in the air. Then-"l'm ready" said Lor- imer
 He turned, breathing heavily and walked around behind his fellow sena- tors to his seat in the last row. And there he sat with his head supported by his hand while the Senate decided his fate.
 "Mr. President" said Senator Lea as soon as Lorimer was seated, q suggest the absence of a quorum "The clerk will call the roll," said Senator Gallinger, president pro tenn
 The call bells rang. The clerk be- gan calling the roll. The few who were absent entered the chamber. Among them was Senator LaFollette, who walked down the aisle and took his seat in the front row.
 "Eighty-two senators have re- sponded to their names," said Senator Gallinger "A quorum of the Senate is present"
 Senator Dixon of Montana arose and replied to an affidavit introduced by Lorimer on Thursday, the first day of his speech. The affidavit was signed by R. A. Holland, a Georgia delegate to the republican national convention. He charged that he had been offered a bribe to vote for Theodore Roosevelt, of whose cam paign Senator Dixon was manager.
 Affidavits False
 Senator Dixon called the affidavits deliberate falsehood Senator Benjamin R. Tillman-he who was once known as "Pitchfork' Ben Tillman-arose.
 "I desire to make a statement" he said. q am too weak to read it and I ask that it be read by the clerk"
 The clerk read it.
 Senator Lea's resolution declaring Lorimer's election invalid was then read
 "The clerk will call the roll," said Senator Gallinger.
 A yea was the response from Sena- tor Ashurst.
 That was the first vote cast and against Lorimer.
 The roll call proceeded. One by one the senators answered their names, and nearly every one was vote for Lorimer's expulsion. Lori mer heard them all without change of expression.
 When the name of Senator Cullom, his colleague, was raached, IA i1ld already voted against him and only seven had stood by him. One of those who voted against him, Senator Gull person, afterwards withdrew his vote, explaining that he was paired with Senator Du Pont.
 Senator Cullom," called the clerk.
 Aye" said Senator Cullom brok- enly. He cleared his throat and re- peated Aye" firmly and loudly.
 Lorimer shifted his position slight ly by no other sign did he give evil dence of the blow. The clerk finished calling the roll. Then he read off the names of the senators who had voted for the resolution and those who had voted against it. A slip of paper was handed to Senator Gallinger. "On this resolution the ayes are 55 and the nays are 28," said Senator | Gallinger, who had voted for Lorimer. "The resolution is agreed to-" That was all.
 Was No F0rmality l There was no ceremony. no formality. 1 Nothing more than vote. Tie hands of the clock pointed to 2:02.
 Lorimer, plainly dazed and uncertain. sat heavily in his chair 1 All eyes were turned on the man. There was a moments silence. just long enough l for the full import of the presiding of 1 fcer's announcement to impress itself on the exhausted brain. Then Lorimer arose. He brought his legs together, reached out and grasped the sides of the desk-"his | desk' it had been-and slowly raised him. self to his feet.
 Without glancing around he moved to- wards the republican cloak room As he drew near the door. Congressman Roden- berg of Illinois, who had been standing back of his desk, met him. Lorimer Smiled. Rodenberg put his arm around Lorimer's shoulder and half supported him to the cloak room. Other senators came forward and stopped Lorimer in the doorway. There were Senators Dillingham; and Gamble. | both members of the committee which had investigated Lorimer's election. Sen ator Fletcher. another member of the committee, pushed forward and took his | hand. So did Senator Johnston of Ala | bama. Congressman William A. Wilson | of Illinois joined the group They pushed open the door of the cloak room and | IIorirner passed in. His entrance into that room was his passing from the Senate. Snatched from his seat, his election de- l clared invalid, it meant that he had never been legally member of the United | States Senate He had no right in the Senate chamber. He cannot take advan- tage of the privilege enjoyed by former members of the Senate and enter it again.
 When Lorimer stepped into the cloak i room the chief clerk of the House en- tered the Senate chamber. He was rec ognized by the presiding officer. 1 'I am directed by the speaker of the House of representatives." he said, in measured tones ito communicate to the | Senate the following resolution | "'Resolved, that this House has inn peached Robert w. Archibald. judge of the circuit court, now sitting on the United States commerce couft.'"
 And the business of the Senate went on.
 Senators Plainly Affected Through the swinging doors oflthe cloal, room one could see the group within gathered about Lorimer. Several of the senators had handkerchiefs to thetr eyes | r rom the cloak room Lorimer passed or into the corridor. There he was stopped ! by some women who hod been in the gal. i lery They were strangers, hut they ex. pressed their sympathy. All fad tears ir i their eyes and two were openly crying
 Lorimer smilingly parted from them ano went down to the subway He went te | his office in the Senate building and SC. cluded himself from callers
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