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Show PIliB 1EN Til TESTIFY II CASE Work of Committee Investigating Investigat-ing Loriiner Case Will Be Thorough This Time. i WASHINGTON", June 12. Subpoe- j nas for a number of prominent men to B testify hero in the new Lorimer inves- I tigation have been issued, and a special I officer from the office of the senate S sergeant at arms is now on his way to i Chicago to servo them, probably lato today. I Tho greatest secrecj- is attached to 9 the action by ths special committee of ij eight senators having the investigation j in charge. It is understood, however, j that among the men to bo summqned H are Leo O'Neil Browne, Democratic leader in the Illinois house; Edward 1 Hines, president of the Edward Hines Lumber company of Chicago; Edward I Tilden, whose name was connected 1 with tho $100,000 fund alleged to have Q been collected for use in electing Seu- ator Lorimer, and Clarence S. Funk, an ollicer of the International Harvester 1 company', whoso disclosure of an at- j tempt to have his corporation subscribe 3 to the alleged fund was a feature in the investigation by tho Illinois legis- laturc. , j The Loriiner investigating committee I has not yet definitely fixed a day for its next meeting. The members are f going over the voluminous testimony i taken in tho Illinois inquiry and until i this is completed such meetings as are n necessary will bo held merely for pur- jj poses of organization. . h Senator Lorimer, for the first time in W several weeks, appears in hist place in 3 the senate today. He arrived this morning from Chicago in response to a P request sent to all absentees to Teturn g for tho vote today on the resolution g providing for tho election of senators K by direct vote. fi |