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Show FRAZIER DENIES HE EX0BEDL0B1EI1 Tennessee Senator Says He Keaehed Ooncliibion Seven Illinois Illi-nois Votes Were Tainted. THINKS TOGA WAS BOUGHT Member of Sub-Committee Asserts As-serts Chicagoan AVould Have Lost Without Bribery. I CHATTANOOGA, Tcnn., Dec. 19. United States Senator James B. Frazler today dcnietl he slgrncd the report of the sub-comndttec of the committee on privileges and elections of the senate, which found the election of Senator Lorimcr of Illinois free from scandal. Instead, he says, he filed a statement in whleli he stated ho believed seven of the votes cast for Lorimcr In the legislature leg-islature were tainted. It has been gen-eralfc'- reported that all members of the sub-eommittco sighed the report, which gae Lorimcr a clear record. In speaking of tho final meeting of the suh-commlttec. when the report was signed, fcenator Frazler said: "'I was not present at this meeting, but left Washington Friday night and understood the sub-committee made a report to the full committee and that all of the other members agreed to the report. "Before leaving Washington, I prepared pre-pared a statement, based on the evidence and law and gave it to my secretary with Instructions to hand It to the chairman chair-man of the sub-commlttce and I have no doubt he did this. In this statement I disagreed with the report of the other members of the sub-commlttce wherein It exonerated the election of Lorlmer from the charges of corruption. "I said that In my Judgment the evidence evi-dence established that four members of the Illinois legislature who voted for Mr. Lorimcr were bribed to do so, they having hav-ing confessed, and further, that they were bribed by three other members of the legislature, who had voted for Lori-mer. Lori-mer. and that my conclusions as set out In the statement were that there were seven votes cast for Lorimcr which vere tainted. "Lorimcr received only six more votes 'than were necessary to elect lilm. "I certainly did not sign tho report of the sub-commlttce; In fact, I was not In Washington when the sub-committee had Its final meeting." "Was your statement a minority report?" re-port?" was .asked. "Well. It could hardly be called a minority mi-nority report. You see. tho subcommittee subcommit-tee reports to the full committee on privileges and elections, and that committee com-mittee will make its rcpurt to tho senate. My statement represented my views. I do not know whether the other members submitted their -views, but they, of course, had the privilege. I do not know that the sub-committee's fceport was signed by anyone." |