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Show IIIIIES DEIIIfS EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES Declares He Never Boasted of Having Personally ,t Elected Lorimer. SAYS LUMBERMEN HAD NO LOSSY FUND Endeavors to . Prove Clarence Clar-ence S. FunK's Story Falsv. WABHOTOTON, " June SO The mil ' Ueaeire Jajobenajaa.-Edward Hlnea ot -Cbicage. was subjactad today to rigid cross examination' by. John H. Marble, attorney for the senaU Investigating committee. Mr. Hines eontrsdirted swora testimony testi-mony by Prrsit'eat Herman P. Hettler of the Hettler Lumber eomneay of Chirac, Chi-rac, that Hiaea bad boasted to him of having personally elected Lorimer. He denied that the lumber interests raised a big asm to lobby for tariff legislation legisla-tion is lDOfl, or that the lumber interests inter-ests bad anything to do with the Lorimer Lori-mer election. Mr, Hiaea declared that be waa "absolutely "ab-solutely certain" be was not mistakes about his tatimony that former creator crea-tor Aldricb stated to him Ike president was snxious to ksve Mr. Lorimer elected. elect-ed. Asked about a. denial of this from the white house after his testimony at Mnringfisld, Mr. Hines merely said that such a denial had never been ''called to his attention." The white house statement la question, ques-tion, copies of which were re-issued last eight, concluded as follows! 'The statement by Mr. Hiaea that the president was aaxtooe for and was urging the election of Mr. Lorimer ia wholly unfounded. " With his pockets bulging with documents, docu-ments, Mr. Hines resumed the witness stsad. Trias to Prore Alibi . . Mr. Hines' counsel sought to show by these papers that Clarence R runs. feaeral manager of tha International larveeter company, claims Mr. Hine"" called upon bim to refeh his memory in regard to the famous) Union League eluh eoaversatioa, ia which Mr. rusk testified Hines asked him to contribute I0.0UO to .reimburse ev-UKJ,0uO Lorimer Lori-mer election fund. Bills. for services rendered him at Wanhinfftoa hotel for tha month preceding pre-ceding March 4 wer presented. The Am bill waa for five day, tha bill amounting amount-ing to f3.-U.50. . x "Better read the item," auggeated Heft a lor Kara. The largest item was ftO cash. A aother bill was for more than 'tu300. "Wasn't it possible, aa far aa these bills are concerned, for you to bar been absent from tba city and for your wife to have . remained alone at tho hotel T" asked Hen a tor Joaes. ' Yes, air; J went to Philadelphia once, but never to Chicago." Shows PUt of EiTOT. The wltneea produced a plat of the -rhlrajo river, over the treatment of whW'h there la maid to have been a controversy con-troversy between the International Har-veater Har-veater company on oiw aide and Senator Sena-tor bnrimer. Mr. Hinee and others on the oilier aide. Croaa examined by Attorney Marble for the oomnilttee. Mr. Hlnea eatd at the exa-rt moment Henator lotimer was elected he (Hlne waa at the Union teoa'iie club In Chicago, telephoning tit Aetwu'tated Prean thera to aacerutn the result of the ha lint I na at Hprtncfleld. The wltneaa could not definitely fix the hour, aaylnf It waa between 1:40 and p. m. He related how he waa told that the voting wan on at ftptinrfleld. that Mr. Leorlmer had 103 vote, and Anally, after he had held the wire a moment, came the news that Mr. Isorlmer waa elected. Attorney MarM aakad If the Wltneaa did not feel very happy over the reault. Mr. Hlnea aald be waa not certain about Diet. "Pldn't you ronatder the election waa the result of your eflfortef . Mora Meaaaa Bearer. "No, I coneldered that 1 was a mere meMs:e hiirer and I never did know what the effect of that meeaaae waa." Mr. Hlnea dnld the teaiimony of Hrman H. Hettler, a competing lumberman, lum-berman, at the Helm heaiinc at Springfield. Spring-field. Mr. Hettler lea lifted that Mr. Hlnea aid of t he new ivm tor. Mr. I orlmer : "I elected him; 1 did It myself, personally." per-sonally." Mr. Hlnea tentlfted that he merely t4d Mr. Hettler he understood Mr. Lorimer had been electee senator. Mr. Hlnea aald he and Mr. Hettler bad never been friend. "Did you use anv laiurua which might have been h neatly interpreted aa 'I elected him; I did It myself, personally'?" person-ally'?" "No. sir. On th contrary. It ta not an honest mistake. practically all I ttfd was thst Mr. lorimer had heen e ie ted and that I waa very happy over It." Mr. Hlnea raid be did not know how mm h money the lumber Interests raised Ur tha expenses of mmmitte in Washington during the tariff legislation of ifHW, which waa about the time Mr. " lorimer was ela ted He admitted tliat he might have known the amount ex pend-d about the tlnve h waa asked to contribute the drlteney. He waa wtll-ina- to make an affidavit that It waa not |