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Show uu II I If I 111 iiff i i : iiii : ?' r n fa 8 SLb&0 vflfLB! Senator loot Declares the Illinois Man Should Be Ousted Washington. Fob.1 3 That Senator Wm. Lorimcr of Illinois holds his seat as a result of bribery, and on that account should not bo permitted to continue in the senate, is the conclusion con-clusion reached by Senator Elihu Root and announced by him 'in an (Continued on Page Seven.) HARD BLOW AT LORIMER (Continued From Pngc One.) argumont on the floor of the Senate today. The New York senator held tho undivided un-divided attention of his colleagues, as he discussed tho report of the committee com-mittee on privileges and elections, by which Mr. Lorlmer was exonerated. Mr. Root's position had bijen a question ques-tion of much speculation and so high is the esteem in which his opinion is held that It is known several members mem-bers of the senate have held in obey-anco obey-anco their own opinions until they could hear from hiin. In the main hl$ address consisted of a careful analysis ,of the testimony taken by the committee. The argument argu-ment was almost entirely legal Mr. Root lost little time In indicating indicat-ing the conclusion he had reached, which was entirely antagonistic to Mr. Lorlmer. ' He took tho position that the investigating inves-tigating committee had been at fault in permitting the attorneys for Mr. Lorlmer, or the attorney for the Chicago Chi-cago tribune, to direct its course in the matter of connecting Mr. Lorlmer with the corruption of members of the Illinois legislature, Imt agreed that, even in the fact of'Jts- fault In this respect, the committee had obtained sufficient evidence effectually to taint or Invalidate the election. He expressed the opinion that both the state and country had been disgraced dis-graced by Hte methods of tho Lorinfer election. Not only did the senator differ as to the conclusion, but as to the methods meth-ods of the senate committee. lie did not believe that organization had properly interpreted the scope of its instructions, but felt that It had gone too far in Interpreting the charges as a private complaint "by the Chicago Tribune. The committee, should, he thought; havo borne in mind that tho reputation, the honor, the purity, and the authority of the senate were involved. in-volved. Then he asked, earnestly, did we entrust the guardianship of our hon-lor hon-lor and integrity to any newspaper or any man? "It wds the duty of the committee to investigate whether corrupt cor-rupt methods and .practices had been resorted to as directed by tho senate and not to decide whether the Tribune Trib-une had established a case " One effect of the committee's course had been' to create the feeling that this was a persecution rather than a prosecution and tnc speaker himself confessed to sharing the view that the work was not one in which a newspaper news-paper might properly engage. "Tbis case is not the case of the Tribune it lb the case of this government, govern-ment, It Is the government of the United .States that'.is involved," he said. 4 . Senator Bailey treated a sensation by asserting that if Lorlmer were shut out b any suclv logic then Mr. Cul-, lorn, the venerable Illinois senior senator, sen-ator, also should be excluded and he added Impressively: "And there is no one here who would not acquit Mr. Cullom having knowledge of any wrong-doing in connection con-nection with his election " |