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do? If ho is wlso, ho will accept our
bills as amendments to tho recipro
city bill. Wo can go before tho coun
try on this proposition and fight it
out."
By a voto of 221 to 100 tho houso
of representatives passod tho Under
wood wool tariff revision bill pro
viding for a reduction of tho duty
on wool and manufactures of wool.
Twenty-four republicans voted with
tho democrats for tho pnssago of the
moasuro and one democrat, Ropresen
tatlvo Francis, of Ohio, voted against
it. Many amendments wore offered
and voted down, tho only one adopted
bolng a slight change in phraseology.
Senator Gallingor, republican,
statod in a speech in tho senate that
if tho reciprocity bill passed many
ropubl leans would join tho demo
crats in kicking out the foundation
stono of tho protectivo tariff.
A special dispatch to tho Sioux
City (Iowa) Journal, under date of
Juno 22, says: "Tho Cummins-La
Folletto republicans and the demo
crats aro in control of tho United
States senate. Tho rule of tho older
statesmen has boon broken. The
progressives and democrats combined
today, and by a voto of 39 to 18
bowled over tho regular republican
leadership and adopted a resolution
presented by Senator Gore, of Okla
homa, directing tho senate committee
on finance to report tho democratic
wool revision bill on July 10. Sena
tor Penrose and other leaders pro
tested, but in vain. An effort made
to adjourn the senate as a means of
heading off tho Gore resolution
failed. Ten progressives, among
them Cummins and Kenyon, of Iowa,
Clapp of Minnesota, Crawford of
South Dakota and Brown of Nebras
ka, and Senator Nelson voted with
the democrats against tho motion to
adjourn. Tho senators named also
voted for the Goro resolution.
"Tho demonstration in tho senate
was aimed in part at Canadian reci
procity, although tho opponents of
th'o agreement havo abandoned all
hope of defeating it. The republi
cans who joined with the democrats,
or at least somo of them, ore now
engaged in an effort to pass the
farmers' free list bill as well as tho
democratic wool measure. They say
that theso two bills .should be en
acted into law as compensation for
tho farmers' loss through the free ad
mission of Canadian farm products
as proposed in tho pending agree
ments. "Senator John Sharp Williams, of
Mississippi, hold tho floor this after-
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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 25
friend of Senator
Chairman Penrose, republican, of
the senate finance committee, re
ported adversely on the farmers' free
list bill and the Underwood wool
tariff bill. United Press report says:
"This action opened the tariff fight,
which has been threatened in the
senate, and the battle -was on for a
general revision of the tariff down
ward. "President Taft's backers are pre
pared to fight hard to save the Ca
nadian reciprocity bill from being
so tied up with amendments as to
change its original purpose.
"In the finance committee the
votes for the adverse reports were
cast by the eight regular republican
members: Penrose, Pennsylvania;
Cullom, Illinois; Lodge, Massachu-r
setts; McCumber, North Dakota;
Smoot, Utah; Gallinger, New Hamp
shire; Clark, Wyoming, and Hey
burn, Idaho.
"The opposition votes were cast
by: LaFollette (rep., Wis.);
Bailey of Texas. Simmons of North
Carolina, Williams of Mississippi,
and Kern of Indiana, democrats.
"Stone (dem., Mo.) and Johnson
(dem., Me.) were absent.
"The wool and farmers' free list bills
were placed on the senate calendar.
"Senator Penrose explained that a
majority of the finance committee
believed hearings on the bills could
not be conducted before July 10, the
time fixed for a report by the in
structions. " 'Being unable to give the meas
ures proper consideration, they were
reported at once adversely,' he said."
The Underwood wool bill is
described by the Associated Press in
this way: "The wool bill places a
duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on
raw wool imports, as against an aver
age duty of a' little more than 44
per cent ad valorem under the present
law. On partly manufactured wool
and on products manufactured in
whole or in part from wool tho aver
ago duty under the proposed law
would be about 42.5 per cent ad
valorem, as compared with the
present ad valorem duty of moro
than 90 per cent.
The ways and means committee
has estimated that the bill will re
duce the annual revenue under the
woolen schedule of the tariff by a
little more than $1,000,000.
"The bill prescribes that it shall
be in effect January 1 next, but it
is not believed it will pass the senate
at this session."
Special dispatch to the Omaha
World-Herald follows: Sensational
disclosures of names of prominent
Chicago men discussed by Edward
Hines and Clarence Funk as identi
fied with the Lorimer corruption
fund were made by Herman H. Kohl
saat, publisher of the Chicago
Record-Herald, to the Lorimer in
vestigating committee.
Those men are:
"Roger Sullivan, democratic na
tional committeeman from Illinois,
and a prominent democrat of the
state, personal
Lorimer.
"Edward Tilden, president of the
National Packing company.
"E. S. Conway, president of the
W. W. Kimball company.
"The Weyerhauser, foremost in
the lumber trust.
"Colonel Roosevelt would not at
tend a dinner at Chicago last fall at
tended by Senator Lorimer because
he was told by Kohlsant of the Hlnes
Funk transaction in connection with
the Lorimer bribe fund. Victor F.
Lawson, publisher of tho Chicago
News, was told the story also by
Kohlsaat and was Influenced by it
in his attitude toward Lorimer.
"Mr. Kohlsaat said he had told
his wife the same story and she kept
the secret.
"The committee had to probe for
the information, Mr. Kohlsaat say
ing he did not wish to connect any
one with it but Hines and Tilden.
" 'I recently faced one sentence to
jail for recalcitrance about answer
ing questions of a committee,' said
Mr. Kohlsaat with a tired smile, 'and
I suppose if I am confronted with
another I will have to answer the ..
questions.
" 'I have no personal quarrel with
Lorimer, but he is a dual character.
On the private side, as to his home
life, there is much I can admire. But
on the public side he represents what
I may call Lorimerism a cohesion
and co-operation of republicans and
democrats for spoils and private
privileges.
" 'He appeared in politics as a
candidate for constable on a demo
cratic ticket. Next he was in a re
publican convention, and when
Mayor Roche, a republican, was
elected, Mr. Lorimer became an em
ploye in tho dirty water department.
Charges of irregularity arose. It de
veloped, as shown by the papers of
the day, that Henry Fitzpatrick, a
brother-in-law of Lorimer, was car
ried simultaneously on the rolls of
the water office and county assessor's
office. Mr. Lorimer retired from his
position.
" 'Later he ran for congress. His
affiliations have always been with
people in both parties; he has often
been elected by votes of democrats
as well as republicans.'
"Mr. Kohlsaat then took up
Clarence S. Funk and the story that
Hines told .Funk of the $10,000 bribe
fund.
" 'On my way to luncheon one
day I met Mr. Funk. He said money
was used in electing Lorimer. 'How
do you know it?' I asked.
" ' 'I feel positive was asked for
a contribution,' replied Funk.
" 'Tell me about it,' I said.
" 'Oh, I don't want to get mixed
up in such a thing or get the com
pany mixed in it,' replied Funk.
" 'I told hm I would protect his
confidence, and ho then said he had
been appealed to by Edward Hines.
" 'HineB said. 'We had a chance
in the last days of the legislature to
put over Lorimer; that it took $100,
000 to do it; a few individuals under
wrote it because there was no time
for delay; now they were asking a
few people t6 contribute to reimburse
them in part.'
" 'Funk said Edward Tilden was
interested in. raising the fund. Some
other names were brought into our
talk, but I do not recall the names
that Hines had named to Funk, so I
have never given them out. I don't
want to bring people into disrepute.'
" 'Whose names were these?' was
demanded.
" 'One of them was Roger Sulli
van, democratic national committee
man from Illinois, who was in
terested in the People's Gas com-'
pany. I don't know if ho is a man
of wealth.
" 'Another was E. S. Conway,
.president of the W. W. Kimball cora
(Continued on Pago 15.)
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