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Show Election of the Chicago Man Declared De-clared to Have Been Legal and Honest. CULL0M DECIDES IN FAVOR OF COLLEAGUE Vote Is 46 to 40, Eleven Democrats Demo-crats Casting Their Ballots With the Majority. WASHINGTON, March. 1. William Lorimer retains his scat in tho United States senate. By :i vote of 46-to -10 that bodv today refcated tlio resolution introduced in-troduced by Senator Beveridge dcclar-linjj; dcclar-linjj; that the junior senator from I1H-iio'ib I1H-iio'ib had not been legally elected. The end to tho case came sliorlly after .1:30 o'clock. Promptly at that hour rhc.vice president, called for a vote on the resolution. The. agreement entered into by. tho mombers yesterday called for the shutting off of all debate de-bate at thai. hour. Senator LaFollette had the floor at the time and the nip of the gavel forced him to an abrupt termination of ! his anti-Lorimor speech. j Jlr. LaKoIIettc declared thafc "every line of the testimony convicts the senator sen-ator not only of obtaining hisfSeat by bribery but of being a participant in the bribery." He turned, with trembling voice and hands, toward the scat of Senator Lorimer Lor-imer on' his left. Persons in the gal-ler- rose (o sec what the object of his denunciation would do. There was an instant of tenso silence. ''The gentleman is not in his seat," 'Mr. LaFoIIette said, and turned away lo face the senate. He went on then to review circumstances which he considered con-sidered as substantiating his position, and declared it. was impossible thafc Mr. Lorimer should not have known what was going on. "Wo cannot say just whore the money came from," he said, "but we know tliafc a large amount of it was used." Burrows Interrupts. Senator Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections which investigated tho Lorimer case and its rejlort. exonerated the accused senator, whs on his feet trying to interrupt. inter-rupt. He tried to road from tho minority mi-nority report, which declared that the evidence did not prove complicity on Lorimer 's part in the allogcd .nribe'ry. "Does the senator viola?" asked the presiding officer. The hand of the clock hovered over the half-hour mark people held their breath. The chairman's chair-man's gavel was in tho air. "Just a minute, just a minute." cried jMr. LaFoIIette. "I know what the senator wants to say. You never can prove a . thing like that, but you know it. I don't know where, the money came from that was used in au effort to defeat 1113' own reelection to the senate, but I do know that part of it. came from Wall strcot." Bang! The gavel fell and Senator. LaFoIIette sank back with the phrase "Wall street" on his lips. A titter of laughter ran over the galleries. "The hour of olio-thirty having arrived," ar-rived," said tho vice president, "the sccrotar- will report the resolution." It was read as follows: "Ticholvcd. that Willinm Lorimer was not duly and legally elected to a seat, in the senato of the United States by the legislature of tho state of Illinois." Illi-nois." "The secretary will call the roll. "Mr. Aldrich' and the vote was on. Voto in Detail. Navs (pro-Lorlmer) Republicans Urad'lcv. Braudcpec, BrlKgH, Bulkcley Burnham. Uurrows, Carter, Clark of Wvouiinsr. Crane, Cullom, Curtis. Depew. LMck. Dillliitcliaiu. Du Pont. Flint. Frye. Gallinpcr, Gamble, GuKsenhelm, Hale, Hevburn. Kean. McCumber, Nixon, Oliver. I'enrosc. Ferklnn. Piles. Richardson. Richard-son. Scott. Smoot, Stephenson, Warren and Wetuiore. rjemotrats Bailey, Bankhend, Foster, Fletcher. Johnston. Paynter, Simmons. Smith of Maryland, Thornton, Tillman and Watson. Total nays. 4C. Aves (antl-I.iorlmer) Republicans BcverldKO, Borah, Bourne. Bristow, Bur-kctt, Bur-kctt, Brown. Burton. Clapp. Crawford, Cummins. Dixon, Gronna, Jones, LaFoIIette. La-FoIIette. Lodge. Nelson. Page, Root, Smllh of Michigan. Sutherland, Warner, Young Democrats Bacon. Chamberlain, Culberson, Cul-berson, Clarke of Arkansas, Davis. Gore, Martin, Money. Newlands. Overman. Owen. Percy, Ravner. ShJvcly, Smith of South Carolina, Stone, Swanson, Taylor. Total ayes. 40, Absent Aid rich. Frazlor and Terrell. Upon the conclusion of the roll call and the announcement of tho result, applause was heard in the galleries, while on the floor Senator Lorimer 's friends hastened to tender their eon-j gratulalions. |