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Show WHITE TELLS HIS STORY -OMIil Illinois legislator Repeats Tale of Corruption to the Lorimer Committee. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Still insist-lag insist-lag that he was paid aaadaomsry aa a member of th IUiaoia legislator for voting for William Lorimer for United State, senator, Chat lea A. White re-earned re-earned the witness stasd today before the aenat Lorimer eommitte. It was tha earn story th witness had told at the first Lorimer trial. Correspoadenoe between Lee 0NU Browns, tha Democratic mlaority leader a tne Illinois legislature, wao is ao-eused ao-eused of giving Whit the alleged Lorimer Lori-mer bribe money, waa introduced ia evi. dens. . White produced letter- alleged to have been written by Browae, Attorney At-torney Haneey, representing Senator Lorimer, furnishing the letters Browne la said to have received from Wail. Loaded U With raaeaa. Ia on of th letters written jot before, the legislature met Browae told White where he ecu Id get railroad and Pullman peases. Whit said that upon hie arrival at Springfield to. attend -tha legislative eeeeioe, he signed aa agreement agree-ment to- support Browne tor minority leaders he refused ta vote for Shurtlsff, the Republican candidate for speaker, although his- Demeeratic colleague switched front. Browae t Shnrtleft'. . "Swartleff had beea -unfriendly to tabor aad t told them I would not vote for his, aader any ceaaidaratioa," aald Whit While committeemen - listened - with surprise,' White related and rattled off' th list f railroad. Pullmaa aad telegraph tele-graph passe he held aa a member of the legislature.- . i , ,"llid they all send passes!" is-quired is-quired Senator. Jones, "No; the Pennsylvania aad Baltimore did not iasae passes." -"Did the passes some by request or otherwise " ashed .Chairman Dillingham. Dilling-ham. . J "Br reoueet and without:, by mail and messenger." Asksd to Tot for Certain B11L He explained that he. was given an Illinois Central pane with th request that h vote for "aenat bill 813," which he aaid was a "personal inquiry bill." He lent hie passes, he said, to Representatives Foreat, Ceremak, Wilson Wil-son and Browne. He aaid be thought ha had (eratched out the destination en Pullman passes aad substituted other destinations. "Manny Abrahams regulated the transportation for members," testified White.- "He told as we could alter Pullman passes." It was Abrahams who was termed "the bell wether ' ' because be-cause his aame led the roll call. White aaid his passes were all interstate and that he still had a few of the Pullmaa passes. Discussing corruption funds, White aaid: "Once oa the train Representative Charles t. Luke (now deceased) ssid that at the end of the preceding legislature legis-lature there wa a 'jackpot' aad he waa offered fiJOd ef it. Luk aaid he tor ap the money aad threw it at the feet of the man who offered it to him. Luke said he told th aiaa he would 't sell his manhood for 20O. " The witness said he believed Luke mentioned a man named Tippett as connected con-nected with the ttOO incident. |