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BRIBE CHARGE Most Vehemently denied in a Speech X by Senator Lorimer But i: ANOTHER BRIBE TAKER Confesses In Illinois Immediately After the Senator Delivers Speech on the Floor of tlie 8enute in ^ Washington, Which Fastens the Crime on Him Again. For just two hours Saturday Senator Lorimer of Illinois stood In the senate and In vigorous language denounced as untrue the charge of bribery made against him in connection with his election to the senate. Upon leaving the chamber at tho conclusion of his speech, Mr. Lorimer hurriedly put his affairs in order and caught a late afternoon train for Chicago. In his addresss Mr. Lomimer made emphatic denial of all the allegations of corruption and sought to turn the accusation of wrong-doing upon tho Chicago Tribune, in which newspaper the charges first were published. The speech was devoted to a review of (charges and Illinois politics for te past 25 years. He charged Tho Tribune with sinister motives in its attacks, and, saying that it had been fighting him every since 1884, charging that its action was inspired by its failure to control his course as a public man. Mr. Lorimer gave many particulars concerning ihis senatorial election, saying that after persuading him to enter the race, Gov. Deneen had deserted him and sought to turn against him those whose support he had formerly procured for him. At the close of his speech Mr. Lorimer offered a resolution directing that an inquiry into the charges be made by" tho committee on privileges and election. Under the rules of senate the resolution was referred to the committee on contingent expenses to consider the question of cost. Tn p!iko nf n. fjivorahln renort from that committee, of whicvh there is no doubt, the resolution will go to the committee 011 elections for consideration of the merits of the matter. Upon report of that committee the senate's action will largely depend. Bribe Taker Confesses. Bursting1 like a boom within a few Jiours after United States Senator Lorirner's speech at Washington, came the indictment of State Senator John Broderick, a leading Chicago Democrat, 011 a bribery charge by the grand Jury at Springfield, Illinois. Broderick's indictment was the result of a confession made to the grand jury by State Senator 1). W. Holtslaw, of Iuka, 111., w.h o says Broderick paid him $2,500 to vote for Lorimer for Senator. Senator Holtslaw had been indicted 011 a perjury charge in connection with tlio furniture contract and upon advice of his lawyers, when offered Immunity, agreed to make a confession. Ho told the grand jury that ho received $2,5 0 0 for his vote for Lorimer; $700 as his share of a legislative, "jackpot" and a promise of $1,500 as his share of'tho State house furniture deal. Senator Holtslaw's confession regarding the furniture deal was corroborated before the grand jury by Otto Freier of Chicago, who as agent for the Ford-Johnson Furni^ ture, obtained the furniture conV tract. The two confessions regarding the furniture contract resulted In two additional Indictments on a conspiracy charge. These were Senator S. C. Penzerton (Republican) of Oakland, 111., and Representative Jos. J. Clark (Democrat) of Vandalia. j Bench warrants wore immediately issued for their arrest. After conferences with Attorney A. M. Fitzgerald, his lawyer, lloltslaw, worn, hazzard and driven almost to distraction during a sleepless night, told Prosecutor Burke he was ready to confess and all liability to prosit edition and punishment was waived when immunity was offered and later granted because lloltslaw was a material witness. Before going to the grand jury room, lloltslaw made a preliminary statement to State's Attorney Burke as follows: "In making this statement to the Sagamond county grand jury regarding payments of money to secure contracts for furniture and for olocti ing William Dorimer United States -^U senator, I have been governed by a firm belief that my actions in this mattor have been reprehensible and in this connection I offer no defense. v?tirtwflvnr Hntnrmlncd to make X llftfU, KIU IT V I VI I U1..V. such reparation as 1b within, my power, and the only means by which I can do this, as it seems to me, is toy fully and honestly stating w.hat I know about these transactions. "I voted for William I^orimer for United States senator and received thorefor $2,500. I also received $700 which was given me without explanation, with the statement that it was coming to me. I was promised $1 ,500 for my connection with tho letting of the furniture contract " Following his appearence before the inquisitorial body Holtslaw repeated his confession to the Associated Press, and told of the 4 BRIBE TAKERS LIST OF MEN WHO WERE PAID TO VOTE FOR LORIMER. ? They Got Various Sums for Selling Their Votes to the Corrupt Crowd of Politicians. Senator Holstlaw's confession, resulting in the indictment of Senator Broderick, of Chicago, is the fourth confession obtained since the exposure of the alleged Lorimer bribery scandal on April 3 0 last. The first confession was made by Representative Charles A. White, of O'Kallon, 111., who declared he has received $1,000 from Lee O'Neli Browne for his vote for Lorimer and $900 as his share of the Legislative "Jackpot." Although stigmatized as a blackmailer by the men w.hom he involved, White's confession resulted in grand jury investigations in Cook and Sangamon counties. In the Cook County grand jury room on May 5 White's confession was substantiated by Representative H. J. C. Beekmeyer, of Carlisle, 111. This second confession resulted in three indictments in connection with the Lorimer case. These were: Lee O'Neil Browne, t.he leader of the Democrats in the Legislature, 011 a charge of bribery. Representative Robert 15. Wilson, Democrat, on a perjury charge. Representative Michael S. Link, Democrat, charged with perjury. Following an offer of immunity, Link made the third confession and the indictment standing against him was nollied. Browne and Wilson were arrested and gave bond in the sum of $15,000 and $5,000 respectively. The confession of Holstlaw created 1 the greatest sensation of the Senatorial bribery scandal, as he until Saturday had not figured in the 1 Lorimer case. News of Senator Broderick's indictment and search for him by the police caused a commotion in politi- ' cal circles. Senator Broderick could not be found at his place of business ! or his residence up to a late hour 1 Saturday night. Members of his family were plainly woried as they .had ' expected him home to dinner. Sevoral detectives have been detailed to searoh for him. 1 STKANGK IMIENOMENOX. Stones Thut Are On the Ground Hurled in the Air. A curious seismic phenomenon has been observed mcar Cantillana, at a place called Mesa Itedonda. From ten o'clock in the morning until noon stones lying on the ground at a certain spot within a circumference of over 5000 yards were torn from the ground and hurled into the air. At the same time subterranean noises were heard. Traces of an extinct volcano are visible at the spot, and it is Ik Moved that a new crater is utr111 & IL ? . ? + Had a (lose Call. Aroused by flames and smoke in their home at Branford, Fla., Tuesday morning the family of A. L. Burton escaped just in time to save their lives. The .home adjoined and and was partly over the store operated by Mr. Burton. Burglars, shortlj before, the fire was discovered, entered the store, robbed it and set it on fire. Think Girl Kidnapped. At New York Amelia Diamee, a pretty three-year-old child, is missing from her father's home on the Fast Side. The police are searching in tJie belief that she was kidnapped. They have a description of Mian five years. * ? liig Price for Horse. H. C. Hildreth, of New York, who f I m n o cr-n anlil )hn irrojlf hni'SO. C>\ J 1I1U H MI V, W ?VIU V?? vy {-) V??< Fitzherbert, to J. E. Madden for thirty-five thousand dollars, it is announced, has purchased a horse for check, caused death. * ? A woman can forgive her husband most anything if anybody else will. meeting with Broderick the day before Lorimer was elected. Hoitslaw says Broderick told him t.hat if he woul 1 vote for Ivorimer there would , be $2,500 in it for him. Hoitslaw says that he then, agreed to cast his vote the next day, May 28, for Lorimer. Hoitslaw aaid that tip to this time .he had voted consistently for the 111-1. T _ T? Democratic candidate, nswruuw x>. 1 Stringer. I Later, he says, he received a communication from Broderick, and on June 17th he visited the Brodoriok saloon in Chicago and was there paid the $2,500 for his vote for Ix>rimer. Most of the money was in $1000 bills, he said. In regard to the "jackpot," Holtslaw says that a month after he was paid the $2,500 he received a letter from Rrodorick, asking him to come to Chicago, which .he did, meeting Hroderick again at his saloon. He was then handed $700, Broderick remarking casually "this is coming to you." Holt9law said that he asked no questions and soon afterwrads left 1 for his home. SOME HOT TALK ' * la the House About the President's Tarrelliac Expenses. ? THE DEBATE WAS WARM Hot Words Pa??od Hetween Demo* crnts and Republicans Over the Question of Making "Immediately Available" Another $23,000 to PiH'Kidont's Traveling Expenses. President Taft's traveling expenses and the fact that already he had over drawn his allowance of $25,000 a year voted by congress, led to acrimonious debate in the house Thursday and a refusal to nermlt him to use the next year's allowance to meet the deficiency. As reported from the house committee on appropriations the item of $25,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, would have become "immediately available" except for the protests of Democratic members. The words "immediately available" finally were stricken out by the action of Mr. Mann of Illinois, t.he occupant of the chair, in sustaining a point of or Ter made by 'Mr. Macon of ArknnsflR. ;i nnmnnrnt It was the western and southern trip made by Mr. Taft last fall that exhauster! the White House traveling fund. During the debate. Chairman Tawney, in c.harge of the bill, criticised Southern Democrats for their attitude in objecting to an appropriation to defray the expenses of a trip on which they had been the president's guests. Representative Hardwick of Georgia, drew from Mr. Tawney the admission that Secretary Carpon.ter had furnished him a list of names of Democrats who ha 1 accepted the president's hospitality. In connection with the use of the names of such Democrats, Mr. Rarlett of Georgia, charged that "the president has violated both the rules of hospitality and of decent conduct." T.he president, Mr. Tawney said, had made his trip through the west and South at the Invitation of senators, governors of States and civic organizations. "Thin trip," said Mr. Tawney, "was not made for his own yl ensure. Congress was in session when delegation after delegation from t.his Mouse, from the senate and from the different States visited him urging him to make this trip." At that time, Mr. Tawney said, there was no appropriation to meet the traveling expenses. "The president informed the chairman of t.he committee on appropriations, explained Mr. Tawney, "thai personally he would rather remain at his summer home after adjournment than to make that trip and that the only way lie would he able to make t.he trip would be through congress giving him an appropriation which we failed to make at the close of tlie sixtieth congress. Now after the president has accepted the invitation of members of this .house and visited their States, after senators and governors invited him, and while on that trip ho accepted their hospi talitv, they turn around and criticise .him." This statement served as a firebrand upon the Democrats, several of whom vainly attempted to interrupt. rr* J .1 a 1 i. I ^ .vi r. inwnev ?<nu uiwt nmw ocratlc governors invited the Presi dent to visit thoir states, the states being Texas, Colorado. Indiana. Mississippi, Louisana, Montana, South Carolina, North Carolina and Arkanso s. "How many Republican Governors invited .him?" inquired Mr. Fitzgerald of New York. "They are not refusing to pay these expenses," retorted Mr. Tawney. He addod that Democratic senators from Collisions, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado a nd South Carolina, together with 25 Representatives had extended to the president t.ho hospitality of their States and districts. "Is this Southorn hospitality?" shouted Mr. Tawney, looking towards the Democrats. "Can t.here he a meaner man," ho asked, "than the man who invites another to acjeot his .hospitality and then kick** tiaother because ho accepted thj hnv pitality " "Hit him again," interposed Mr. Stafford, of Wisconsin, amid Rom?mlioan laughter and Democratic wrath. r- TXor'?ft nf HrwirtHn dorna nd ed to know what representative \ had accepted the hospitality of the president on that trip, as stated hy V.r. Tawney. Mr. Tawney promptly named Mr. Rartlett and his colleague, Mr. Hardwiok, of Georgia. "That is not true; that is false," exclaimed Mr. Bartlett. The Georgian added that he did ride li\ the president's car, but he paid his own flare. Mr. Tawney said three Democratic senators had been the guests of the president on his Western trip. "The expenses of this trip will be justified by the people of this country, I care not whether they are Democrats or Republicans," declar TAFT TAKES A HAND , PRESIDENT WRITES A IJETTER TO CHAIRMAN TAWXKY. He Is Deeply Distressed lit the !! flection on Southern Hospitality, Which He Highly Praises. President Taft Friday sent to Chairman Tawney of the hous<> committee on appropriations a letter expressing deep resentment at the criticisms in the house in the debate on the traveling expenses of the president. The president says he is especially distressed by the "suggested reflection on Sunthern hospitality." The president's letter follows: The White House, Washington, May 27th, 1910. My Dear Mr. Tawney: I am deeply grieved over the phase which the discussion of the appropriation for the traveling expenses of the president took yesterday. I think it is a legitimate argument in favor of such an appropriation that congressmen and many others press the acceptance of invitations to visit their sections and districts, because the urgency of such requests indicates the opinion on the part of the people that one of the duties of the president is to visit the people in their homes. But the intimation or suggestion that the acceptance by congressmen of the president's invitation to travel on the train with him in their respective districts or States was a reason why they should not voice their free opinion on the question of such an appropriation is to me a most panful one. In traveling upon the train they were not receiving my hospitality? they were only making a little more elnborate the cordial welcome which they as representatives of their districts wished to give. The feature of the discussion yesterday w-hich was especially distressing to me was a suggested reflection on Southern hospitality. The intimation that somewhere in the South boarl was charged has no foundation. in fact, and I never heard it intimated until I saw it in this morning's paper. . In all my experience, and I have enjoyed the hospitality of many sections and countries of the world, I never had a nvcre cordial, generous, open and lavish welcome than I had in the Southern States during my trip, and t.he slightest hints that outs me in the attitude of a critic of that hospitality gives me great pain. I am ?oing to take the liberty of making this letter to you public. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) William II. Taft. * OPENING INDIAN GRAVES, ' founds Found Containing Hundreds of Skeletons. Or. ,T. \V. -McNeill and Prof. Chas. Peabody of Harvard University, who are interested in archaeological discoveries in Cumberland county, N. C., passed through Hope Mills on their way to the Davis Bridge, about six miles from Hope Mills, to engage in excavating the large Indian mound near t.hat point. Six or seven men were secured to do the work of excavation and as the mound is '*0 feet wide and nearly as long and many feet deep, it will take several lays to reach all parts of it.. A number of skulls and bones have been uncovered, and it is estimated that fully one hundred and dftv 'mUans were buried here long before the advent of the white man. A pipe made of a substance that 'ooks like soapstone. and a well-define ! tomahawk were also found. I There ore a number of Indian | pounds in this county, and most of I hem are familar to Dr. McNeil, who has been investigating mo niouiius f-cr several years. In one grave, Dr. MeNeil found where more than one hundred Inlians .had been burled, evidently the victims of a sanguinary bottle. One of the skulls still had a tomahawk sticking in it, while there were arrow heads in a number of the skeletons, showing that they had been thrown into the grave as they fell on the battlefield with the weapons that caused their death remaining in their bodies. * vi Mr. Taw rev. "The president may think It is p,s pfr to furnish my name as one who was on his train," said Representative BarHett. "If the president Is satisfied with tho propriety, with the decency of furnishing the names of myself and my collagues to the gentloman from Minnesota in his sneer'ng attack upon what he calls the .hospitality of tho South, that is a m*t*or for him. But tho president tw-kth thn rules of hoe IKID I \/ imuvi i/\y V V V/ - pitalitv and of decent conduct." "If a gentleman is the guest of the president must that fact he reflected in 4iis rote hereupon an appropriation?" inquired Mr. Hard wick, of Georgia. Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee, suggested that objection to the appropriation was that the money hai been used by the president to pay his expenses "in making partisau and political speeches." * MUST WIN OHIO To Win and Republicans Will Make Hard Fight on Gov. Harmon IN THE BUCKEYE STATE Result of Recent White House Conferences is that Defence of PayneAldrich Tariff Daw Will Re Principal Factor in Ohio Congressional Campaign. P. H. McGowan, in his Washington letter to the News and Courier, says the determination Just reached between President Taft and the leading men in the Republican party to start the tariff issue in Ohio, with the fight against Governor Harmon and the Buckeye Democrats, is taken at Washington to mean that not only will this be the great and all-absorbing issue in the Congressional elections of the present summer and fall, but this feature will also come to the front largely in the national election of 1912. When President TafC's brother? Charles P. Taft?came to Washington last week and spent several days at the White House holding conferences with Senators Dick of Ohio; Aldrich of Rhode Island, and others high in the Republican councils, it was believed that something of importance would develop and this has proved to be the case. The announcement made that a clean-cut defence of the tariff bill and the general principle of protection would be the slogan of the Ohio Republicans in the coming campaign, and Governor Harmon and his Democratic lieutenants would be given all they could do answering the onslaughts of the Republicans, came as no surprise. This announcement is Important for many reasons. Not only is it pointed out that Republican leaders believe they must take a firm stand in the Buckeye State now in order to save tho members of Congress, because of the opposition to the tariff in that section, but it shows also that if success is secured from the present number of Republicans returned to Congress as are in it now, which would virtually bo an endorsement of tho tariff and protection, that a knock-out blow would thus be given the Presidential hopes of Governor Harmon. He would see his own States return Republican members of Congress to their present seats in spite of t.ho fact that the opposing Democrats are basing their hope of election on the tariff question. For Ohio to endorse the tariff now, it is believed, would be a long stop toward placing that State squarely in tho Republican Presidential column in 1912, and none know this better than President Taft and his brot.her, Charles. That this programme will go through is not doubted, unless the President should InteV on veto it and direct that tho fight proceed along other lines. Rut there is little probability of a change in the present nlan being made. Tho President, however unwilling he may he to enter into local politics in O.hio, is the man looked to for setting the pace, and it is to him that the Ohio voters look to givo the word that will put the political machinery in t.he Huckeye Statu in motion. The President is considering the various suggestions that have been made to him, and is greatly interested in tho claims of those w4io believe that a straightout Republican victory can bo made an a straightout defence of tho Aldrioh-Payne tariff law, with tho promise t.hat whenevor tho tariff is revised again it will be upon a scientific basis, leaving no doubt as to tho fairness or justness of tho schedules. Such action will be entirely in line with his own views on tho tariff. Me has defended the present tariff law in his speeches in different parts of the country, but it is said that this would not commit him to a policy of standing pat upon the law, if facts to be gathered by the tariff board indicate that there are inequalities in the measure of protection afforded to different lines of business. Undoubtedly Ohio is to be made the main stamping ground not only of the Congressional olections of the present year, but of the national elec tion two years hence also. Already the signs point that way. * Knds His Own Life. At Pickens Enoch Lawson. an oi l Confederate soldier, about 7t> years years old, committed suicido Friday morning by shooting himself through the head with a ahot gun. He arose at his usual time, and taking his gun, walked out to the corner of the house and shot himself. When t-ho members of the family reached him he was dead. ? ? "White Slaver Sentenced. At New York Hello Moore, the negress convicted In th? "whlto slave" trial for placlftg two girls for immoral purposes, was Friday sentenced to the Auburn prison for not less than two and a half years nor more of Virginia. CONTROL OF ALASKA SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS HOW Gl'GCEN HEIMS OPERATE. The Trust Control Federal Officials and Spend Large Sum to Corrupt the Courts. Investigation by a sub-committee of the 8enate pudiciary commltee of of the Senate jdiclary committee of the latest Alaskan scandal produced startling revelations last week of the power and the methods of the Morgan - Guggenheim combinations, and Bnmo corlnnu r>ho rirao nnnlnr.t' ?vHiui 5V0 a^aiuou Federal oftlcers in the territory, as creatures of this combination. The proceedings so far have been secret. ^)ut an effort will be made to have them thrown open to the public, or to have the testimony published Im- # mediately. The matter under investigation is the removal of John S. Boyce, United States district attorney, and Daniel A. Sutherland, United States marshal at Juneau, Alaska. These two men had prosecuted employes of the Morgan-Guggenheim combination for murder, and were reaching out for general oliicers of the combination suspected of instigating the murder. ITnnn t Ti rnnnm nf Wnltnr E. Clark, governor Gf the territory, the two men were summarily discharged from office on the eve of the proposed action, and their successors were nominated to the Senate. Boyee and Sutherland are not seeking to be restored to office. They say t.hat they desire nothing more than to place before the Senate the facts, as they see them, connected with their removal. According to their story, they incurred the enmity of the Guggenheims because of t-heir prosecution and conviction of Ed .. Hasey on the charge of having shot and killed two men in Keystone canyon in October, 1 907. Hasey was employed by the Guggenheims, and it was charged that he shot the two men while trying to g ard Keystone pass against the invasion of the representatives of a rival concern, which was seeking entrance to the pass as a route for a railroad line. Hasey was convicted n.nri sontenend to serve 18 months iu a federal penitentiary. 'Boyce and Southerland claim that they discovered that "men higher up" in the Guggenheim services were responsible for the affair at Keystone Pass. The two Federal officials say they were removed from office on the eve of bringing proceedings against others believed by them to have been implicated in the Keystone affair. A young man named Douglass, who had been an auditor in the employ of tlie Guggenheims, was called before tlie committee last week. Ho testified that $7 0,000 had been expended prior and during the Hasey trial and lie charged that the expenditures had been made for the entertainment of jurors and otherwise as a corruption fund to defeat the prosecution by Federal oflieers. Delegate Wickersham, the representative of the territory in (-he House, charged before tlie committoo that Gov. Clark and any other Federal officeholders in the territory are creatures of t.he Morgan-Guggenheim combination, and that the control of the combination over the government of the territory will lie absolutely complete if the new district attorney and marshal I are confirmed by the senate. Kills Wife and Child. At Montgomery, Ala., said by other negroes to have been crazed by the comet, Milton Hughes, a negro, Sunday night killed his wife and child, near Ashland, Talladega County. On his way to the jail, he broke from his guards and ran, handcuffed, down the principal streets, pursued by a mob, and breaking several large plate glass windows before being caught. Turned the Tables. In a family row Saturday after.'??? rWnal townshin. Anderson county, Lawrence Edwards, colored, >.shot and killed by his mr,?erin-law, Risa Walker. The nevs of the killing was not made known until Monday morning. Auto Turned Over. Miss Lillian Wright and Miss Flossie Herman wore instantly killed at Logan, by their automobile turning turtle. Several other persons were reported to have neon severely Injured. The occupants of the automobile were returning from a party at midnight. doing Too Fast. Tn trying, it is believed, to drive the eighteen miles from Marlanna to Washington, Pa., in thirty minutes' time, a party of three men, in an autAmrthl lo wurn wrecked early Sunday, two being instantly killed, and tho I other fatally hurt. Chinese Killed. A number of Chinese have been killed, and a chapel destroyed, by r'otors at a village between Yt Yang and Ningsiang, a little to the north of Chang Sha. It Is reported that an armed ban J is marching on Yl Yang. 4 A