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SENATOR MARTIN CHOSEN LEADER
J! Senator Thomas Martin, of Virginia, was
. chosoh domocratio leader in tho caucus of United
States sonators. Following aro extracts from
tho Associated Press report: "Senator Martin
roceived twonty-ono out of thirty-sovon votes
. cast, sixteen going to Senator Shively of In
diana, who was then soloctod vice chairman.
Sonator W. B. Chilton of West Virginia was
oloctod secretary of tho caucus, the two last
named places having been filled by acclamation.
Sonator Owen declined re-election as secretary.
Tho oxpectod long contest did not develop.
Prior to tho session tho progressive democrats
mot in tho ofilco of Senator Owen to canvass tho
situation.. It was decided that tho progressives
should voto for Senator Newlands, of Nevada,
as Sonators Culberson, of Texas, and Stone, of
Missouri, both declined to becomo candidates.
Tho plan was changed in tho caucus, however,
whon it was learned that Mr. Shively, who was
tho vico chairman under tho leadership of Sena
tor Money during tho last congress, would not
objoct to recolvo tho complimentary voto of
thoso who would not voto for Mr. Martin.
"Mr. Martin was nominated by Sonator Clarko
of Arkansas and Senator Shively by Senator
Korn of Indiana, tho running mate of Mr. Bryan
in tho last campaign. Senator Stono seconded
tho Shively nomination. Tho thirty-seven
votes cast accounts for tho democratic strength,
excopt four. Senators Tillman, of South Caro
lina, Terrell, of Georgia', and Shively, were ab
Bont because of illnosB and Senator Martin did
not voto. Tho roll call follows:
"For Martin Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead,
Bryan, of Florida, Chilton, Clarke, Culberson,
Fletcher, Foster, Johnson, Overman, Paynter,
Porcy, Raynor, Simmons, Smith, of Maryland,
Swanson, Taylor, Thornton, Watson and Wil
liams. "For Shively Chamberlain, Davis, Goro, Hitch
cock, Johnson, of Maine, Kern, Lea, Martine,
Myers, Newlands, O'Gorman, Owen, Pomereno,
Reed, Smith, of South Carolina and Stono.
"Tho appointment by Chairman Martin of a
steering committee, which will also serve as a
committeo on committees, was authorized by
tho caucus. Tho committeo will have to report
its program or tho filling of vacancies on stand
' ing committees to tho caucus itself. A state
ment Issued by Sonator Owen, speaking for
senators who voted against Mr. Martin, says:
" 'Those who supported Shively, because they
aro militant progressive democrats, determined
to enforce tho policies of the national progres
sive democracy, and they feared tho country
might feel Sonator Martin would not bo re
garded as progressive as tho country had a right
to expect of tho senate. Wo shall expect tho
country to bo agreeably disappointed In tho
matter. ,
" 'There aro at least twenty-two or twenty-
three militant progressive democratic senators
" who aro going to do things, and I trust and be
lieve that even thoso domocratic senators who
liavo not heretofore been regarded in completo
sympathy with the national platform will bo
found actively progressive, as that there shall
be in the senate a party united in spirit and in
common purpose to control the special in
terests of tho country and restore the rights of
tho people.'
"William J. Bryan explained at tho white
house that ho was not opposed to the selection
. of Senator Thomas S. Martin of Virginia as
minority leader of the senate, but that he per
sonally would not voto for Senator Martin if
he wore a member of the senate.
" 'If I wore a senator,' said Mr. Bryan, 'Mr.
Martin would not be my first choice for minority
loader.' "
THE LORIMER FUND
H. H. Kohlsatt, editor of the Chicago Record
Herald, testified before an Illinois legislative
committee that he had been told that the special
interests had raised $100,000 to elect William
Lorlmor to the United States Bonate. Mr.
Kohlsaat declined to give tho name of his in
ormant on the ground that it was a confidential
communication. Later the informant, who hap
pened to be Clarence S. Funk, general manager
of the International Harvester Company, came
forward and released Mr. Kohlsaat. This la
Mr. Funk's testimony:
Clarence- S. Funk, called and examined by
Mr. Healy, and testified in part:
Q. "What is your business?"
A, ATJ am general manager of the Interna
tional Harvester Company."
9 !'.Where nre your headquarters?"
'".,HMrvester bu,1ing, Chicago."
Q. What generally aro your duties as
The Commoner.
general manager of tho International Harvestef
Company?" i-
A. "General supervision over tho operating
ond of tho business." '
q, i direct your attention to a conversa
tion that you had with Edward Hines, of the
Edward Hines Lumber Company in tho latter
part of the month of May, 1909, or tho early
part of tho month of June, 1909. Did such a
conversation take place?"
A. "Well, I cannot identify the month. I
had a conversation with Edward Hines shortly
after Lorlmer was elected United States senator
by the legislature."
q, "Where did that conversation take -
place?"
A. "Union League Club, Chicago."
q, "Was the conference arranged in any
way or was it more or less accidental?"
A. "I met Mr. Hines accidentally and he
said he had been trying to get a chance to see
me or get time to see me."
Q. "Now, will you tell tho committee, Mr.
Funk, what occurred and what was said at
tho conversation by Mr. Hines and by yourself?"
A. "Well, he said I was just the fellow ho
was looking for, or trying to see and said ho
wanted to talk to me a minute. So we sat down
on one of the leather couches at the club and
without preliminaries and quite as a matter
of course he said:
" 'Well, wo put Lorlmer over down at Spring
field, but it cost us about a hundred thousand
dollars to do so.'
"Then he went on to say that they had to act
quickly when tho time came; that they had
no chance to consult anyone beforehand, I
think his words were: 'We had to act quickly
when tho time came, so we put up the money.'
"Then he said: 'Now we are seeing some
of our friends so as to get it fixed up.'
"He said they had advanced the money; that
they were now seeing several whom they thought
would be interested to get them to reimburse
them. I asked him why he came to us. I said:
'Why do you come to us?' meaning the har
vester company. He said: 'Well, you people
are just as much interested as any of us in
having the right kind of men at Washington.'
I think I replied: 'We won't have anything
to do with that matter at all.' He said: 'Why
not?' I said: 'Simply because we are not in
that kind of business.'
"We had a kind of aimless discussion back
and forth and I remember I asked how much
he was getting from his different friends.
"He said: "Well, of course, we can only go
to a few big people, but if about ten of us
put up $10,000 apiece, that will clean it up.'
"That is the substance of the conversation.
I am repeating verbatim juBt as far as I can,
Mr. Chairman."
Q. "Is that the conversation as you remem
ber it now, Mr. Funk, or do you reoall anything
else which was said with reference to the per
son to whom the money was to be sent?"
A. "Well he yes, he mentioned another
name. Before I had any chance to say any
thing he also mentioned the name of the man
whom he wanted me to send the money."
Q. "Who was that man?"
The Witness "Well, I will answer under
protest. He told me to send the money to
Ed Tilden."
Mr. Healy "Who is TSd Tilden, if you
know?"
A- "Well, I think he is president or vice
president of some one of the banks at the stock
yards, and I believe he is one of the officials of
the National Packing Company."
Q. "He is president of the National Pack
ing Company; isn't he connected in some official
way with that company?"
A. "I understand so."
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DENIAL MADE BY HINES
Chicago, April 5. Edward Hines denied ab
solutely the Btory told the Helm committee of
tho legislature, which is investigating the elec
tion of United States Senator William Lorlmer
that ho (Hines) had solicited a fund of $100 -000
to reimburse those who had "put up" for
the senator's election.
Mr. Hines, on being read the dispatch over
tho telephone, said:
"Until I read the dispatches I can only sneak
generally, but I will say this: "I never con
tributed a dollar to the alleged $100,000 fund
spoken of by Mr. Funk. I never solicited a
dollar for any such fund, nor. did I have any
thing to do with such a fund." .
"That statement regarding your meeting Mr.
Funk and making such a proposal as he testified
tb is not tho truth, then?" Mr. Hirieg'as
asked. ,
"You can draw your own conclusions from
my first statement, can't you?"
Cyrus C. McCormick, president of the' In
ternational Harvester Company, confirmed Mr.
Funk's statement that tho Hines incident had
been discussed by officials of tho international.
Mr. McCormick said:
"It Is true that Mr. Funk told me soon after
it occurred of tho call made on him and the
request for a contribution, which ne promptly
had declined. He told me this as a matter of
information, knowing full well that such a pro
posal would not, under any circumstances, be
considered by our company."
Senator LaFolletto has introduced in the
senate a resolution providing for another in
vestigation of the Senator Lorimer caBe. It
names as the committee of investigation Sena
tors Works of California, Townsend of Michi
gan, McLean of Connecticut, Kern of Indiana,
and Pomerene of Ohio. No action was taken
as Senator LaFollette Intends to speak upon
the resolution another day.
The resolution recites the action of the senate
last session, when a move failed to declare
the seat of Senator Lorimer vacant because of
alleged corruption of the Illinois legislature
which elected him. The resolution recites:
"It appears from the published reports of tho
proceedings of the said Illinois state Benate that
witnesses that were not called and sworn by the
committee appointed to investigate said charges
have appeared before the said committee of
the Illinois state senate and on being inter
rogated have given important material testi
mony tending to prove that $100,000 was cor
ruptly expended to secure the election of Wil
liam Lorimer to the United States senate."
Ater naming the special committee, which it
is proposed to have appointed to conduct a new
inquiry, the resolution provides for meeting of
the committee during sessions of the senate
and gives to it full authority to subpoena wit
nesses and send for papers and to administer,
oaths.
SOMETHING ABOUT "IilKES'V-
Tho Houston (Texas) Post says: "Speaking
of Mr. Bryan, Major Hemphill says: 'We ihave
always liked him and we like him still.' We
have always liked him, too, and suppose wo
should like him still, but have never known him
to be that way exactly."
The trouble with Major Hemphill; of tho
Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch and Major
Bally, of the Houston (Texas) Post is that they
show a disposition to want everyone who does
not speak the language of the corporation boss
to keep still very still. Mr. Bryan recipro
cates the warm personal feeling expressed by
the gentleman from Richmond and tho
gentleman from Houston. Deep as his affec
tion for these gentlemen is he would think
all the more of them if they were free, to uso
their talents in the service of the people. These
distinguished "newspaper men have a very
fetching way of covering the service they
render the special interests with humorous
paragraphs but the number of their readers
that are deceived grow smaller with each suc
ceeding day.
SENATOR O'GORMAN
New York Sun: Justice O'Gorman's character
and recognized abilities warrant high expecta
tions of the usefulness of his career at Washington.
New York Herald: From the statement mado
by Mr. Murphy one might fancy the election of
Justice O'Gorman a victory for the Tammany
boss. As a matter of fact, ho suffered a hu
miliating defeat in the rejection of his personal
candidate, Mr. W. F. Sheehan.
Y York American: Officially Judge O'Gor
man is the head and front of Tammany Hall,
tfut in reality the titular Tammany chief "has
been appointed to his great place in the federal
Ky-rnJa2.nt by Charles F. Murphy, tho real
?i?f ? ?, th,e organization. But it must be added
tnat ii all Tammany men were like O'Gorman
there would be no objection to Tammany.
tJ II World: James A. O'Gorman is
united States senator not by grace of Charles F.
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