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Show GRILLING IS GIVEN , BRIBE TAKER WHITE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. With a sting in nearly every question, counsel for Senator Lorimer against today suV-jeeted suV-jeeted Charles -A. "White, confessed bribetaker, to a rigid cross examination before the senate Lorimer' committee. "Yon deliberately lied when you wrote to Senator Lorimer on December 4, 1909, that had finished your story, didn 't you f ' ' asked Attorney Elbridge Hsnecy. "Yes. sir." ' "When yon wrote the senator you had been offered approximately 12.50 a word you told a cold, bold lief" "It was a falsehood. " "Whst are you smiling atf" suddenly sud-denly demanded Mr.' Hanecr. "At the way you put it."" White said be had been "coerced in a degree" to let the Tribune print his story, "bersuse they kad turned it over to the state's attorney." White referred to a so called contract con-tract between- him and the Tribune. "Since yon did not regard a contract any more biding on yon than you did the the truth t" rn qui red Mr. hsnecy.. V White did not reply. "You knew you violated yoor oath; made yourself infamous under the II-nois II-nois constitution and disqualified yourself your-self from holding a Try office when, you say, yon took these bribesf " asked Mr. Hsnecy. "Yes, I know those who were paying me were doing the same thing and ao were the sieeial interests who were putting up the money to do it." |