Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-13
Case
VIII Be Issue
iE, Campaign
Democrats to Garry Record
Into Every State Holding
Senatorial Primaries.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The New
berry case today is a political campaign
issue
SO far as the present Senate is con-
cerned the case was settled last night,
when on four roll calls, each resulting
46 to II, Republican leaders repealed all
assaults on Senator Newberry's title to
his seat.
That record will be carried into the
senatorial primaries and the general
elections in every State which dominates
and elects a Senator this year. The
Democrats count on the Gewberry case
to win them control Of the Senate.
So far as the Senate's record IS con
ecrned, Newberry now is fully entitled
10 his seat, though his colleagues con-
demned the excessive use of money in
political campaigns. The resolution seat
Ing Newberry declared that the use Of
as much money as Newberry's friends
spent in his behalf was against public
policy and thr atened the perpetuity Of
the Republic Then they went ahead and
seated him.
NEWBERRY ACCEPTS
VOTE OF VINDICATIoN.
My heart is flied with thankfulness
that the three years and four months of
persecution have ended IN complete vim
all concerned" said Newberry when he
learned the vote.
The uncertain" group Of Republican
Senator's decided the issue. McNary,
Oregon. who was "cIubbed" into voting
for Newberry by Administration threats
to block his reclamation bill; Poiudexter,
Washington; Willis, Ohio; Cummins,
Iowa, and Kellogg, Minnesota-they pro-
vded the votes to seat Newberry.
Nine Republicans Borah. CapPer. Ladd,
la Toilette, Norris, Norbeck, Kenyon,
Jones, Washington, and Sutherland,
voted against Newberry.
LA TOILETTE THREATENS
TO REOPEN CASE.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, Re
publican Of Wisconsin, threatens to take
the same stand relative to the status Of
Senator Newberry. that he took in the
case Of former Senator Bill" LOrlmer,
Republican, Illinois.
Lorimer was seated by 4 vote OF 46
TO 30 on March 1. 1911.
Lorimer was uuseated after La Toilette
forced the reopening Of his case by a
vote Of 50 to 2S. July Is, 1912, little more
than year afterward.
La Toilette related these facts in de-
nouncing the Newberry case as FAR
worse" than the LOrimer case.
LORINIER PRACTICES
HELD OUTRIVALED.
La Toilette said: -Four Republican
Senators who voted to unseat Lorimer
voted to seat Newberry-Lodge. Massa-
chusetts; Page, Vermont; PoindeXter,
Washington, and Townsend, Michigan.
with full knowledge of the Newberry
case and Of the issue presented to the
Senate; I assert without hesitation that
the corrupt methods and practices re-
vealed in the Michigan primary Of 1913.
which resulted in Newberry's nominal
ton were infinitely more reprehensible
and were far more injurious to popular
government than We're those employed In
behalf of the election of Lorimer.
Il assert that the personal knowledge
and guilt of Newberry have been estab-
lished more conclusively than were the
personal knowledge and guilt of Lori
mer"
Il believe Lorimer today would be
more entitled to seat in the Senate than
is Newl cry concluded La Toilette.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa, another Pro
gressive Republican, who voted against
Newberry being allowed to retain his
seat, said he was ''in thorough accord"
with the views of La Toilette.