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Show FUNK TELLS TliEWIt BRIBE STORY vasaaiBs(asaaSBaia(a((BanBB Manager of International Harvester Company Be ' - ' fore Committee. DECLARES HINES ' ' ". . SOLICITED $10,000 N wawMawaasaaaaHBSs Hines Told Fank It Cost ' $100,000 to "Pat tori-mer tori-mer Over." WABStWaTOX, Juno ,98. Clarence a Tmk. general manatee Bt tba International Inter-national Harvarter oompany, arbo gave an account to th Dllnola bribery ln-veetl ln-veetl gating coasmlttM of an alleged ra-Quost ra-Quost to him by Edward Hines of Chicago Chi-cago for a (10,000 eoatrlbaUoa toward 1100,000 Lorimar election fond, a-paarad a-paarad today befor th aenat Iorl-snar Iorl-snar invaatigating com mi tie. A he took the stand Mr. Funk faced Mr. Hines, who had been give special permission to attend the hearing hear-ing instead of being required to stay ia the witneaa room. John H. Marble, of counsel for the eommittee, began the dyect examination. examina-tion. Mr. Vunk testified1 that as general gen-eral manager of the harveeter concern it was one of hia diitieo to keep ia touch with political affair. He declared, de-clared, however, that never to his knowledge had the eoffipany uaed money to get vote in legislature or roagre. fie said aa far aa ha could he bad alway avoided discussing Lori-mer Lori-mer personally. "Have yon regarded Mr. tjorimer as a factor opposed to the International Harvester company!" naked Mr. Marble. Mar-ble. , "No, air." Introduction to Ijorlmor. Just how bo was introduced to Sen-tor Sen-tor Lorinrer wao-deaeribed by Mr. funk. He said th meeting occurred at a deep waterway convention In Washington about eighteen month ago. "Mr. Hinea eame up to Mr. Mrt 'oral 'or-al irk and myself in a hotel here," ex-plained ex-plained Mr. Funk. "We talked for (Continued oa page 12.) FUNK TELLS i tt'ontianed from page 1.) a moment, when Mr.' Hinea aaid that 'Senator Lorimer waa in hie room and he (Hinea) wiahed we would meet him." "What did vou dot" aaked Mr. Marble. Mar-ble. "I looked at Mr. MeCormiek and Mr. MeCormiek looked at me aad we both looked out of the wiadow. 1 waited for Mr. MeCormiek to aay eome-thing. eome-thing. Finally we went upslaire and were introduced to the aenator. " ' He toldof another meeting with Mr. Lorimeriand added: ' "The aenator waa very kind on both ocraiinn. " - The witneae aaid he had never heard Senator lA)rimer'a name mentioned in connection with a tax fight on the Mr-Cormirka, Mr-Cormirka, who are largely intereeted in the harveater comnany. Mr. Fnnk "aid the harveater com-panv com-panv waa iotereeted ia eloaing the Chi cago river, which flowed through hia conipany'e plant. The Edward Hinei Lumber company and Senator Ixrimer were in favor of deepening the river. Thie did not prejudice him againat Lori-mer. Lori-mer. "('felt aa long aa the government engineera were opposed to cloning the river, Ijorimer'e attitude waa a matter of indifference," aaid the witeeaa. He declared there had been no dif flcultien between Mr. Hinee and himaelf or their respective companies so far as he knew. "Do vou recall a certain conversation conversa-tion with Mr. F.dward Hineaf" asked Attorney Marble. "Yes. air. " Funk Bepeate Story". Mr. Funk then repeated his nfor.v of the eonvereation with Mr. Mines, In which ihatfiaueat.-f ox -the t lOjm eon.-, trihution is aaid to have been made. "Juat aa casual aa the rale of a cat of lumber," waa the way, Mr. Funk referred re-ferred to the proposition. The witneas aaid he met Hinea at the Union league elab shortly after Lorl-mar Lorl-mar 'a election. "Hollo," aaid Hinae. according to Mr. Funk, "vou are juat the man 1 want to aee. ' The witness explained that he was not repeating the exact worda neeeaear-ily, neeeaear-ily, but only giving hia recollection of the conversation. Hinea aaid: ' ' Well, we put Iorimer over down at Springfield, but it eost 100,000 to do it.' " The witneaa added that Hinea explained ex-plained that they had to act qoirkly "What elsef " urged Mr. Marble. "He said: ' Now we are feeing some of our friends to get the matter fixed up."' Mr. Funk aaid he injured how much he waa getting. Wanted Ten at 110,000 Each. "Well, we can only go to a few big people," Mr. Fnnk aaid Hinea replied, "and if we can get ten contributora of 10,000 apiece we will wipe it out." "! asked him why he eerme to as," said Mr. Funk. He aaid: " 'You are aa much interested in having the .right kind of a man at Washington aa auy of na.' " "1 aaid that we were not in that kind of business. I began to argue, about Lorimer. I waa anxious to terminate ter-minate the conversation. I aoon got up and left." . A volley of questions were fired at the witness by members of the committee com-mittee when he finished hie atory. "Did voirwhake nanus and aay fifood- byet" inquired Senator Fletcher. "No; we just walked out." "Anv personal friendliness follow!" "Sot that I am aware of." "Waa .thia talk after Hinee introduced intro-duced yon to Lorimer f" asked Senator Lea. "Before." "Was Edward Tildea's name mentioned!" men-tioned!" "Yea " "When!" "" "Right at the beginning of the conversation. con-versation. He seemed to want to talk , and 1 just . listened until he got through!" Lortmer "Right Kind ef Man.' "Whet did he mean by Lorimer 'a being 'the right kind of a man!'" asked Senator Kenpron, "I cannot aay." "Had Hinea been indulging in liquor!" li-quor!" asked Senator Kenyon. "No indication of it." 'The Iowa eenator insisted on ascertaining ascer-taining Mr. Funk 'a impression of Mr. Hinea' reference to Lorimer. aa "the right kind of a man." ' "'My impreesion," replied the witness, wit-ness, jl'waa that he was the kind of a man Hinea . regarded as tbe right kind." "Didn't yon regard Bines aa impertinent!" im-pertinent!" asked Senator Fletcher. "Yea; but I waa not surprised. ' ' "Why not surprised!," naked Chairman Chair-man Dillingham. "It comported with my general Impression Im-pression of the man." "Did you regard U aa looae talk!" inquired Senator Fletcher. "I regarded it as aa attempt to get 10,000 from the Harvester company." Mr. Fnnk expreeaed the opinion that Hinea waa inclined to boost , of his achievements and to have, people think he waa a great factor In great matters. |