Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
Senator Bailey Calls on
Chandler for His
Papers.
HITS CORRESPONDENTS
Raymond of Chicago Tribune
Reiterates Statements and
Quotes Chandler.

Washington, d. c., May 17.-Senator
Bailey in the senate today revived the
scene of yesterday by having read a
letter he had written to ex-senator
Chandler asking him for anything he
had written the president concerning
himself, and the replies from Chand-
Ter. including copy of Chambers
diary giving a history of his move
ments on the day when certain mem
orandum was sent 10 the president.
Bailey quoted from the New York Trib-
une and charged the paper in its Wash
ington correspondence with modify
ing its lies
Impugnee No Bad Faith.
He referred TO the report that the
memorandum was circulated among
democratic senators. This he denied
but charged that the president yester-
day showed the memorandum TO a re-
publican senator and TO a republican
member of the house. He said the
Chandler memorandum impugned no
bad faith to him. nor even TO the rail-
road senators. Bailey declared the
president did not doubt his (Bailey's)
good faith because three days after the
memorandum the president through
Chandler asked him TO confer with the
attorney general on the subject.
Tribune's Answer Weak.
Bailey took up the reply of the Chi
cago Tribune correspondent to his de-
nunciation yesterday and said it did
not meet the situation. He intimated
the assertions of the correspondent
made were based on information OBJ
tained from the president or some one
-neaz.to him. Bailey said he had been
charged with being impetuous, rash
and dictatorial, but no one had or
could charge him with double dealing.
When such a charge was made he
would brand across the forehead of
the man making the charge, the word
Liar" in order that he might be
known and Stunned of all men,
Puts Correspondents on Record.
Washington, ID. c., May 17.-Senator
Bailey took the floor a second time
yesterday afternoon and said that his
attention had been called 10 another
article. printed in the New York Trib-
une of yesterday. He said il was of
the same character as that printed by
the Chicago Tribune, and that evidently |
they had been timed to bring them
both to Washington at the same time. |
Pointing TO the press gallery, he said: |
Il intend to put in the record upon |
the statement of more than one repu- |
table newspaper correspondent in that
gallery, and as rule they are as hon.
orable as senators on this floor, on
their authority l state that the two
chief cuckoos of this administration are
the correspondents of the New York |
Tribune and the Chicago Tribune.
And therefore it seems to me con-
elusive that this SANDER proceeds from
the White house. / hope. for the honor
of my country, that it does not proceed
from the president himself.
Wants somebody '.Fired.,
But if he be man of high sense of
honor he will see to it that senators
are not slandered by his subordinates,
and the miserable wretch who commu-
nicated to these newspapers and who
sought through them to communicate
to the country a slander on me which
people might discuss rather than the
issues that have been raised. he is
unfit for his high Office, and the man
who perpetrated that infamy will pay
for it with his position; and if the man
continues to hold his Office it is to be
assumed that what he has done has
been with the approval of his chief"
Raymond Replies.
Chicago. May 1.-THE Tribune to-
day published the following from
Raymond" its Washington CORE
spondent. in answer to the attack upon
his veracity by Senator Bailey:
when Hon. Joseph w. Bailey, SEN
ator from Texas struck at the presi-
dent of the United States over my
humble shoulders, for that is all he did
on the floor of the senate today, he ap
parently was unaware there was docu
mentary evidence in existence both in
the official congressional record and in
the form of the written memorandum
by former Senator William Z. Chand-
Ter. absolutely proving he was an OBJ
ject of suspicion to the real friends of
the presidents railroad policy.
May Not Have Deserved 1t.
This is not to say that Bailey de-
served the suspicion, but that his mo-
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