Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

W. P. Dillingham, Head of Lorimer Committee.

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Senator William Paul Dillingham, chairman of the special committee to investigate the fraud charges in the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois, is classed as a pro-Lorimer man. He is chairman of the senate committee on privileges and elections, but was not a member ot the old subcommittee that conducted the previous inquiry into the Lorimer affair. Messrs Dillingham. Gamble. Johnston and Fletcher voted for Lorimer in the last session, and Mr. Jones voted against him. The three new members of the committee. Messrs. Kenyon. Lea and Kern, -are all supposed to be antiLorimer. it will require all summer for this committee to get the facts and ma te its report.

A native of Vermont. Senator Dillingham is sixty-eight years old and has served in the upper house of congress since 1900. wbeu he was elected to till the unexpired term of the late Jnstin S. Morrill. Since then he has twice been re-elected for full terms. Before going to the Senate he dad served in the state legislature and was governor ot Vermont from 1888 to 1890. He Is a lawyer by profession and Montpelier is bis borne town.

A Missouri Investigator.

Congressman Courtney. Walker Hamlin of Missouri, chairman pf the committee on expenditures ih the state department, is one of the busiest of -investigators in Washington just now. Investigations, by the way. are the fashion, no less than fifteen inquiries into public departments and their affairs being under wav. Among the revelations to Mr Hamlin’s committee was an admission of Dr. Jacob H.

COURTNEY W. BAULK Hollander that he received money from both Santo Domingo and the United States while acting as special agent for the latter. Mr. Hamlin is a native of North Carolina and is Bfty-three ytars old. While still a lad his pa rents removed to Missouri, where, the embryo statesman grew tip on a farm. He was educated in the common studied law add was admitted to the bar in 1882 Before to the Fiftyeighth congress as a Democrat he had never held public office Be was not retarded to the Fifty-ninth, but since then has been regularly re-elected-

1911. by American Press Association.