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Show - uj I Witness Testifies and Qe- L fense Attempts to jiH flPrpvc Conspiracy 'U Chicago, Oct 10. A brief confer- jH enco between John J Healy, of coun- ij jH sel for the committee, and Elbrlrtgo wjl j AHanecy, representing Senator Wll- 'vH Ham Lorimer, preceded the session j ,H I of the United States senate commit- ;H ' tee which Is investigating the election j ! M , of Senator Lorimer here today. 'M In addition to Senator Dillingham, the chairman, there were present all ,'M members of the committee with tho M exception of Senators Gamble, Kern kH and Lea. H Senator Dillingham announced that t JH the rules of testimony would not llj,'! be sacred In the coming sessions. I i "We shall continue to allow all testi- jH mony bearing in any way on he in- I iM I vestlgation to be admitted, regard- i; v.M less of legal technicalities," he said. Ill "Wo are determined that there shall iWW be no posslblo ground for criticism (I because of the exclusion of any evl- ij H dencc ill Senator Lorimer was present ( State Senator Frank A. Landee. of H Moline, was the first witness called. kU 1 I Attorney Healy Interrogated him re- ' -gardlng the senatorial deadlock at M , Springfield. H 'I would like to call your attention ( ; H to an alleged convensation with H ' Charles Luke." said Healy. "Did you , have such a conversation?" IH "Yes," replied Landee. "I met 'J. H Mr. Luke in a Springfield hotel, a .:' month or three weeks before Mr. Lorimer's election. I was on my A way to Albert J. Hopkins' rooms in ! 1 the hotel. H ! "Luke told me he could deliver ten ( votes, provided conditions woro right H "I said to him, 'I thought' you wero . going to vote for Hopkins " ' H "Ho said, 'No, I am not. Hopkins 1 won't come across.' " ' (Jh H Senator Landee then testified re- ,, gardlng a visit to his home at Molino ',H j in 1909 of John I. Hughos of Chicago, j( ' a friend of Mr. Lorimer, as follows: : "'Hopkins, the man you are voting j'H I for,' Hughes said to mo, 'Is an lmpos- I j slbllity. Vote for Lorimer and It will l j he to your advantngo. Lorimer's j -H I name will not be presented to tho J legislature until wo have every vote I we need to elect him. Ho will be I H elected on tho first ballot' " 1 I Landee said that Hughes discussed with him the question of federal pat- I ronago at Moline. "Hughes said it , H I would bo to my interest to bo with j Mr. Lorimer in couaidoring tho mat- tor of tho appointment of a postmas- ter at Moline," he .said. , Attorney Ilanocy attacked the test!- j HB mony of "the witness regarding tho alleged conversation with Luke, who j Is now dead. 1 I Senator Landeo admitted that ho i had not taken seriously tho offer of Luke, because Luke had been drink- ing Under continued cross-cxamlna- J tion Senator landee admitted that a ' M vear ago ho talked by long-dlqtanco ji telephone regarding tho Lorimer In- , vestlgation with Roy O. West, head of . J H tho Illinois Republican stato central ( committee. Senator Landee said that i H West telephoned or telegraphed to m him and that ho (Landee) camo to f Chicago from Moline to meet West f m At that time tho first United States V " ' ' I (Continued on Pago Seven.) , SEN. LORIMER CASE AGAIN (Continued from Page One.) scnato committee whjch investigated the Lorimer case was sitting here, "I told Mr. West that I didn't think It wns fair, what he wanted mo lot," said Landee, "He asked mo to meet tho attorney conducting the lnrpiiry beforo the United States senate committee and to testify as to what I know about the case I told him that if they want-cd want-cd mo T could be placed under subpoena sub-poena in Mollne." "Were you subpoenaed beforo that committee?" ' "No." Senator Lea inquired the purpose of certain questions. Attorney Hanocy deiivcro'.l a lengthy explanation In which ho charged that a conspiracy headed by the Chicago Tribune existed to ruin Senator Lorimer He said tha the Interests represented by tho Tribune had. combined to furnish witnesses airl .new testimony and wero constantly at work to follow out the pollcv to injure in-jure and, if possible, niln lxrliner. |