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Show 'I don t know. I cannot lv you may nimti." "Not onr "No." PraMd br Senator Krn. Mr. TatM ad "W$ll. I ffiit-M vou and I ara put up about tb fim way In rard to party pnnrtpl.a: w. jro to tha dttrh." W. hava both ben thsr. anyway.-m"d anyway.-m"d Mr. Krn. who wn a wnt Damocratlr randldata for vlra praatd4nt. Mr. Hanary. aiBfirn-for Mr. Lorlmar. delvrvd Into llllndl. political history. "lo you know of any alllanra hctw.n Rocr Hulllvan. Demorratlr leader, and Oovarnor Dnn?" D naked. "If there la." responded tha wit new. "Rocer will set what I got." Hopkins Often Opposed Tstea. Mr. Hanei-y broucht out that ffenator Hopkins often had made oppoaltton to Mr. Yates's political fortunes, Tates protested pro-tested aaa I net this line of questioning Mr. Hanery naralated. Oeora;e w. H In man, editor and publish- er of the Chlcaao Inter Ocean, waa tha first wltneaa today. To Attorney Marble's questions Mr. H In man said he was a close friend to Senator Larimer, but had received no money to be used In his election. The witness waa questioned at length In rarard to the 'Jakpot" fund of the Illlnola legislature. Mr. Hlnman said he had never talked with anyone who said he contributed to a "Jackpot," ope rat ad one. or received money from one. "But I bellev there baa bean a Jark- rt In every leatalature of Illlnola si nee went to Illinois twelve years ago," ha said. Tha attorney read adltortaJa In which the eugaxatton waa made that prominent persona In Chicago and Peoria ''might be shaken by an InvastlgaUoo Into llllaola leglftlature jackpot." "To Whom did you refer?" Mr. Marble aaked. "1 did not hava any particular parson la mind." "Why did you refer to Peoria then" "Tha common report waa that a considerable con-siderable part of the Jackpot cams from S certain Interest la Peoria." "What lntereetr" "Tha liquor Interest. "Did common report connect any other Interest with a Jackpot?" aUps CMcafo Interact. Not that ! recall." the wltneaa said, adding that the money Interest in Chicago Chi-cago had takea sldea a gat net teoler Lo rimer. "Do you mean to say that prominent person. In Chicago wha looked upon themselves as better than Senator Lorl-titer Lorl-titer did tha very thlnga ha te criticised for doing?" asked Senator Kern. "That put it batter than I could ex-preae ex-preae lt.'r Tha editor waa aakad If the packing house in teres ta war opposed te Lorl mar. "I would not say they ware particularly friendly," waa the reply. He added that the head of tha telephone tele-phone companies seemed very much opposed op-posed to Lorlmer. Mr. Hlnman ahowed some heat when the committee asked him about his business relations with Funk. HI nee, -Tllden and Lo rimer. "I ceased speaking to Mr. Punk about three years ago because h waa too malignant ma-lignant an enemy to Mr. Lortmer," a, plained Mr. Hlnman. The wltneaa declined at first te answer If he had borrowed money from either tilnee. Tllden or I rimer, becaua It waa a queatloa concerning his private business. busi-ness. Borrewed Money Trim Hinee. . "Oh, well, t will answer you under pro-teat." pro-teat." h eald after thinking It aver. On one ! on I borrow 4 1400 from Mr. Hi net on three or four months time." "When?" "W ithin tha last eight or ten weeks." Richard Tates, governor of Illinois from 101 to lt0l. aaa the next wlinea. "Did you aver hear of a Jackpot when you were governor?" asked Mr. Haw ley. "No, elr" A moment later he told tha story of the pa aaa pre of the Millar bill providing for municipal ownership of street railways. rail-ways. H related how, when, he waa govarnar. Speaker Miller came to him with an account of two men attempting to bribe htm to eld In the paasage of the bill and hew the bill was paased. Mr. Tate said hs believed the men had appmached Millar. He ale said John II Leans, a Chicago reporter, came ta him In 1M1 with a report that corruption cor-ruption fund existed In the legislature. I.art. rMid produce no wttness, he said. These were tha only rumor of corruption he had to tell about. UAti AND YATES STAND-BYLORIHER STAND-BYLORIHER Cutler Tells House Committee Com-mittee History of Deal With Haremeyer. WASHINOTOM. June II. Former Gov-amor Gov-amor Yates of Illinois, who once ceused Governor Peneea of playing him falsely ta politics and sent word to him through Senator LeOiimer that he waa a "liar .till. denied before the eenata committee to InveetlgaK the Lortmer election that he had ever heard of the use of money, in that election an til mora than a year afterward. Both ha and Oeont W. Hlnman. editor and publisher of the Chicago Inter-Ooean. the only other witness, professed the greatest friendship for Mr. Lortmer. Mr. Hlnman exoressed the belief that there had been "a jacK-Pot" or general corrupt inn fund tn th Springfield leaia-lature leaia-lature for many year, but he pointed to Mr. Lorlmer's enemiea a the probable contributor. Mr. Yatee emphatically denied that he ever had any conversation with Edward Hlnea of Chicago ovar th long-distance telephone on the dar Senator Lorlmer I waa elected In regard to a corruption fund for Mr. Lorlmer's election or anv other subject. Attorney Healy -enr the onmmltte explained that there had been j the barest suaseatlon that hs held a con varaatton with Mr. -Hlnea on that dav. but that he did not believe there would hs any testimony to that effect before the committee. Th former governor's political battles were probed extensively, flrat bv th attorneys at-torneys for the Committee -and -then bv Judge Eibrlds Haneoy. representing Senator Lorlmer. History of ZUinois r oil tics. Attorney Healy flrat took Mr. Yates through a history of Illinois polities. Mr. I Tote was asked If he had had anv sollll- : cal difference with Senator Lorlmer. "Senator Lotimer did not support me I for renomlnatlon for governor In 104 and that waa quits a political difference i In my mind " aaid the former governor, smiling at Senator Lorlmer. Th latter ml led heck. In regard to the governorship ha said ha end his friends nominated Oovrnor Deaeen. "I told him I waa for him for gov.rnor." explained Mr. Yates. "He told me that ha would support me for United States senator. That waa a auhseauent oonsleieratlon-and on he did not keen " The effects of thla alleged failure were daecrtbed In detail, Mr. Yates relating bow he became tha political ooponent of Governor Deneen and Senator Lorlmer lining up behind Mr. Tata for governor asalnat Deneen In 1ot. Cells Deneen s Liar. His feeling toward Oovamor Deneen was more explicitly decrlbed In a letter which Mr. Yates said he wrote from Florida to Senator Lortmer In 109. advising advis-ing that th navaoa per. aald that Lorlmer was going to etect Deneen governor. "I told Senator Lorlmer after he had elected Govara or Deneen to cal him aside and tell him he had one friend who save Deneen la a liar si 111 and that I am tha man." Coming down to tha Lorlmer alert Ion. the witness aald he was a warm friend of tha senator, and about forty -eight hour before th election on Mav St) he learned first that. Lorlmer was likely to be elected. Lortmer himself had told him at that tlm there waa a chance of hla election. He said he did everything every-thing he eould for Lorlmer In that outset, ou-tset, but never even heard of tha use of money until long afterwards. Mr. Yates declared that the will of the majority aas not thwarted by the defeat of Hens tor Hopktne. because he had only triumphed by a plurality vote over men who had not made a long, vigorous fight agalnat him. He admitted weariness of the deadlock entered Into th election of Senator Lorlmer. Lorl-mer. No Chase for Democrat Kenator Ka-yon auggested that by n. Ipubitcana voting for a Democratic eartdl-. eartdl-. date he coutd hee been e 'acted just as Lorlmer waa bv Democratic votes. To this Mr Yatee replied that there aaa no disposition among Republicans to vote for a Democrat. When It came to re moo rata voting for a Republican. Mr. Yatea said. Hopkins did not sna to want Democratic votes and so did not get them. "They fe't verr nthua1atlr about vot- i Ing for Lotimer." added Mr. Tataa. I Senator hnon naked the witne. If i when Edward Q. Shurtleff was elected speaker, he had not said "this means th election of Lorlmer as aenator." Mr. Yste denied making such a St. ta. rrient. but demanded to know who claimed he td so, Sanator Ken yon a Hied If he had not made such a statement t Phillip., . Ret-ord-HeraM r-norter. "I know PhllMpa. ..M Mr. Tate He'. tth th Tribun new. and . n honeat fellow. If he save I aald It I wou'd aav I said it Th wltneaa added that be had long hoped that lyMimer would be elect ad sen. st or and might have expressed himaeif along that line, but thre waa no genaral discussion to the effect that Lorlmer aould h a candidate. "What Democrat of respectability, or of prosnlrrenc. or member of th iegia-Datura iegia-Datura 4T-rreaed desire to you to hav Lorlmer ejected?" inquired Senator Kern. |