SENATOR LORIMER'S CASE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 3 June 1911, Page 6

SENATOR LORIMER'S CASE

\X IMPASSIONED INDICTMENT. By a vote of d 6 lo 40, tho Senate of the United States on March 1 dec tort tat Senator William Lorimcr of 11 moi ™ "duly and legally e ected, des no charges that bribery and conniption had broulht him bis .eat. Tho vote, was ono o rihe elo'c,t taken by a full Semite in a decade, only five members of that body failing to vote on tho case. V lew minutes before tho ro 1 beall becan, Senator La I'olletle, of AJ.iManfin. took the floor, his voice trembling in h passion and intense with f<*bng, aid old the Senate that when the personal].. Uos which had tried the ease before than, tribunal of the Senate had passed away tho enduring'record of its vote, in tuo face of Iho 'confession of our members of the Illinois Legislature that It! W been approached, and of persona biiberv" hv Senator Lorimor lumsch "i oilerink to'withhold natronagc in return lor one vote, would go on for ever. "Those who believe that bribery ex sted in the Illinois Legislature must behevo that tho -itliner member Mi. T.pnnieri knew of it." he thundered. ,oi idenco moving this asser Hon imj i»I Da direct," he continued, "but, tie r-n ospl.cro surrounding lb" Legislature, tho act Hint. Mr. Lorimer was on (he groniiti for four months. I bathe is a man of n. telligonco raid iiowerful -lersonalily, that he was not an'opon but » vr ( llcd dale for Senator, indicates that e. schema was bein- worked out in which it was wholly imnofsiblo for him not to havo known of every dcl-iiL "The evidence in this case shows that Hie. Heimblic has been assaulted at its weakest winv. It has boon recognised from tho" beginning '-hat, tho weak point lov where tho transfer ot the nower iroin the people to their representatives takes pine" U will stand out in this caso forever that four men confessed to liarins been bribed, that a hi Hi was liresent when the distribution of bribe iuonev took place, that four others were ai'pro'iched, and that three others wero inmoii as bribe-givers, names that will live in this Senate when we are deadBrowne, Wilson, and Brorterick. Browne, the minority leader; Wilson, who scurried into hiding, and Broderick, who claimed a constitutional privilege to keep from testifying."-