Show THE CASE OASE OF OP LORIMER Harpers Harper's W Weekly kl is on record as 85 opposing opposing op op- op posing the decision by newspapers of causes on trial before judicial bodies and when the senate or the house considers con eon siders a disputed election to its is membership mont memo it is is acting in a n distinctly judicial ju capacity It I is a court cout of justice jus that tice rather than as a le legislature tho the senate will wi be acting when it de de- whether or not William Lorimer shall shah Keep his seat seaf scat as a senator from Illinois But there can be no impropriety ety in a demand front from rom the press s aud and the tho public that the tho senate discharge that judicial function as the courts court discharge isch theirs that is to say Ray impartially im mi- in partially and wih with full ful consideration of Df all an thc l C evidence Tho The press and tho the public arc are in fact making that demand de do maud mand vigorously and m multitudinously So we wo understand is is the tho president and the senate is responding It I is going going behind the thie report of the tho committee au and alid getting at the he facts and tho the facts MS as set Mt forth in tho the dissenting report report of Senator He er e and tho the speeches in opposition to claim amply justify tho the presidents president's ont course couse in ur urging individual senators to read tho the testimony test lE mon mony themselves es before voting The evi evidence enco of bribery in in the tho legislature that hat gave ga C lormer his nis title tio is BO so strong and anil relates to so man many of th the tho members that hat reates tho the senate would woul bo ho gravely gravel culpa culpa- hIe le if j it t accepted an any Uret decision deci dec dec- sion without examination Harpor's Harpers Harper's s 's Weekly |