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Show IHINES AGAIN : BEFORE THE COMMITTEE r ' TeUs of His Activities at Washington in Lori- -mer's Behalf. WASHINGTON. Jury The activities of Edward Hlnea. whose name haa been linked with the election of Senator Lo rimer, ri-mer, to Influence the vote of the senate last spring on unseating the Illinois senator, sen-ator, were Inquired Into today by the senate Lorimer committee. Hlnes waa on the stand exaln and testified tes-tified that he called on PreKldcni W. C. Brown of the New York Central duriiuc the lorimer flaht In the aenate. Hlnes waa asked If he was eeeklng to Influence the vole of 8enator Depew. He answered In the negative. Hlnes did say that he "Pw""-taTT "wtfOft -rVaVawBwBlsr-fiBm'aV dBjfiOfiB' ceding the vote on the ljovlmer case see-ln see-ln senators. Inducing othere to ece them and writing lettera to some of his friends "to tell the facta to their senatora." The committee was In session only an hour and then adjourned until Monday Mon-day In order to attend today s reciprocity session of the senate. Carl R. Nelson, private stenographer to Hlnea. testified that the latter waa continuously con-tinuously In Washington during Kebru-ary, Kebru-ary, lsot, except for occaalonaal trip to New York. The object of Ihla waa to show that Hlnea waa not In Chh-eao during the latter part of February, when Clarence 8. Funk said Hlnea called upon him about the famous Cnlnn leaaue club conversation' , Funk said Hlnea asked him to contribute to a Iortnier election fund, but Hlnea aald Funk offered to contribute. Thought Oook Blackmailer. Mr. Hlnea testified today about a proposal pro-posal to him to purchaee Wirt H. Cook's stock In the Virginia a Rainy I-ake company. com-pany. Cook teetlned that illnea. over the telephone, said he would go to Hprlna-neld Hprlna-neld on the day I -o rimer was elected, "with all the money necessary." "It would hav taken about tltSD.MO to purchase Cook's stock, and aa I had previously pre-viously received a letter from him. which I figured waa In the nature of blackmail. I decided aot to buy the stock." declared Hlnea ' "He claimed he would make some ax. poaure unless 1 purchaaed his stock." Mr. Hlnea declined to give hie conversation conver-sation with President Brown "because Mr. Brown might object." He aald, however, how-ever, that Lorlmer's name waa mentioned, men-tioned, although Hlnea did not Intend to discuss L rimer when he went to call, he aald. "Mr. Brown said he had known llenator I .o rimer for twenty ye&ra and had the hlgheet regard for him." declared Mr. -Hlnea . Tld you aak President Brown to apeak to Mr. Depew about Mr. Lorimer?" Inquired In-quired Senator Kenyon. "No, air: nor to Henator Root. "Had you any business In Washington , at that Am other than the Lortmer matter mat-ter T" aeked Senator J ones. Called a aVanaaor. ' ' I "DM yew call on senators and talk with them about the lorimer caee?" aaked Senator Kenyon. "Yea." whor "Well, several of them. I remember Senator Joneo waa one." ' j "You did not have much Influence with him. did you?" "No, but I felt froa to talk with him.' Tid you ua your tnfluenro all over th conn try In favor of Lorlnrwr?" "I don't know that we had any tnflu-nc. tnflu-nc. If I raw a man In Waahlnaton who belteved what I told him about Lo rimer, T protmbly would aak him to bm lit a aen-ator aen-ator about tha case." "Did you go out Into the at a. tee and write, lettera afklna: your friend a to hrlnr ereaaure to bear on senatora?" ua:a;estea Attorney Marble for the committee. "Well. I would not say pressure. I wrotei to some lumbermen, who knew some of the thtna-a told here were not the truth, to write their senators explaining ex-plaining the farts." Htner examination waa Interrupted by adjournment. |