Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — TAWNEY NOT TO BE SUMMONED [ARTICLE]

TAWNEY NOT TO BE SUMMONED

Lorimer Investigators Absolve Him from Suspicion. H.D.HOLTSUW ON THE STAND Cashier of luka (III.) Bank Tells of What D. W. Holtslaw Did with Money Received for His Vote. Washington, July 27. The senate committee which is investigating the election of Senator Lorimer of Illinois will not summon former Representative James A. Tawney of Minnesota to Washington. The committee decided there is nothing in the testimony which in any way reflects on Mr. Tawney and that it will not be necessary for him to appear. Chairman Dillingham received a telegram from Mr. Tawney asking for an opportunity of appearing as a witness to deny that he was in any wgy connected with the Fireproof Magazine, a Chicago publication, or had ever appeared before the officers of the postoffice department in its behalf. Mr. Tawney was mentioned during the testimony of James Keeley, general manager and editor of the Chicago Tribune, who on Tuesday said that George O. Glavis offered to purchase for Abe Tribune the documents of a firm of Washington lobbyists showing, as Glavis represented, that Senator Lorimer had received a share of the fees of this firm for his services in behalf of the Chicago magazine. Two witnesses were heard: H.‘ D. Holtslaw of luka, 111., and Thomas McGuire, a Chicago detective. Holtslaw is the son of D. W. Holstlaw, a Democratic member of the Illinois legislature, who confessed receiving $2,500 to vote for Lorimer. 11. D Holtslaw had the unpleasant duty of testifying to his father’s confession. . Holtslaw, Sr., had been subpoenaed to appear as a witness, but his son presented medical certificates of his illness, which prevented his coming to Washington. The witness was cashier of the Holtslaw Rank of luka and produced deposit slips and the bank’s books to prove that his father first f't posited the $2,500 he received for voting for Lorimer in the State Rank of Chicago, and later transferred it to his son, who deposited It in his own bank at luka.