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Show II- innis "' TERMINATE JT LUST ' i Commiilee in Session. 102 Days and the Cost to the Government Is 5101 ,000. j ifLEA.OF THE DEFENSE ' Attorney Declares Defendant's .Toga Cannot Be Placed in Jeopardy Second Time. I Yty International Xews Scrvler- i WASH TNG TON. Feb. !. With the t termination of tho investigation into the. election of Senator Lorimcr of Illinois, air announcement was made today to-day by Attorney Elbrise Hanccy, coun. el for Lorimcr, that lie will shortly, fite a pica of res ajjudlca, which means .that a final decision in-tho case is ax far nwny as ever, j The nature of the pica is that Sen- nior Lorilner's scat, was placed iu jeopardy jeo-pardy oiifc before on the samo (diaries and that Iho senate decided he was entitled to hip1 toga. The dccusc will plead also that no additional evidence I (if material importance was brought out at the second investigation. If the plcii is upheld by the senate there will' be no second vote on Lorimcr Lori-mcr "s right to bis scat. ! Inquiry Is Costly. I The investigation, which ended to- ti 1 .lav, began on .Juno 20. 1PM. The com- niittce Ikip been iu xvspion 102 days and , has examined ISO witnesje?. U is oat i- ' mated thnt the cost of the inquiry so i far as the government is concerned is f - S101.OO0. Three things engaged the attention tj of .'he committed on the last day of iti. irqniry tests of the ability of J. V.. Sheridan, a .stenographer employed by 'the Burns Detective agency, " to take down a conversation heard 1 ' through ;i dir.'agraph; an apology from Milton W. Hlumenbcrg. who lost his position when he denounced Sheridan's j notes ap ' nuinufacturcil," and Kd- (1 , ward Minos's denial of the story told j , . bv Mips Sea vers that ho had tried to bribe her. ' ' i The diotaetnph tests of Sheridan's I ability were made under rond;.,,ions ap- 1 proximating those encountered in To- j ronto when he made notes of a conver sation between Charles IcGowan. a i i Mines-Ijorimer fitness, and Iwo do- 1 tectives. " m When the tests were over Sheridan " was- pbii-ed on the stand and road hi? notes easily, but there were, 1'rcrnion.4 J break?, just a.v. in his report of the con- t j eisatiou in Toronto. J Opinion Divided. ' t At the conclusion of the tests the opiuiqu w:h just as much divided as before rgjinli i, Sheridan 's.. ability, to f . nl.y. down a eonvcrsation heard through n db.'ngraph. j Edward Hiues was the last witness, i lie-said he started to send a telegram j to,hiH company, but changed his mind, j "I went bark Id get the message I had given Miss Seavers, said Ilines, 'and while uniting to get her atlen-Ijon atlen-Ijon I saw a message signed bv Bailev. The substance of the mossagci "was that the hearing had been postponed. She looked up and asked mc if T was in- I erected iu the message. I said I was a Jiltle. With that she turned the mcs-ngn mcs-ngn over. "She gave mc my message. I tore 't up and walked away. I had no ImoBPv ,u my ,;1I nor 1( o) ror ,cr any.' .lust, before the committee adjourned it was announced that it would 'not accept ac-cept as evidence anything about the '. b controversy between Lorinier and the liitornatkmal Harvester company in . j J Chicngo. Thin meant that, it would ' not pivr. weight to the testimony that ,; '. the. rnternational Harvester company u'fl? a party to the conspiracy ngainst Lcriincr. ,: ' |
