The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-28
BAILEY TALKS OF TREASON Texas Senator Criticizes Hearst's Magazine. HE CALLS IT AN oUTcAST Articles in Cosmopolitan Denounced
 as Slanderous. Declares They Would Not Re Worthy of Notice if They Were Not
 Inspired by Members
 of Congress.

in the Senate to the series of articles running through the Cosmopolitan Magazine. under the head of The Treason of the Senate" was made to- day by Senator Bailey of Texas. who spoke especially of the attack upon himself and generally of the attacks on other senators,
 The Texas senator read a portion os his speech from manuscript and he spoke with even more than his ordinary 6eiiberation. Beginning with the state ment that he did not make a practice to take notice of criticisms he said that the fact that the Cosmopolitan Is own ed by member of Congress takes this case out of the general rule.
 He then spoke of the published mat ter as false and offensive" but said he did not propose to consider 1t iron, C personal standpoint "because 1t is of a kind which If dealt with in that way would require different place" He then added: Indeed. if I considered 1t purely and only from a personal joint of view, should not regard 1t az which this magazine can say will in- jure me with my constituents or the estimation of those with whom I have served in either House of Congress"
 But" he went on. T cannot free myself from the belief that owe to the American people to show them what manner of men these are who are striv- ing to destroy poupiar faith in the in- tegrity of all public servants.
 Intelligent Men Disgusted.
 He then said that he had been in- formed that several months ago the Cosmopolitan had been sold to W. R. Hearst and that immediately after wards The treason of the Senate" arr ticles had begun to appear. He declar-
 a A ~n care and with regard to the truth, these articles have been so manifestly de- signed to prejudice rather than to in- form the public that Intelligent men have laid them aside in absolute dis gust" Still some people seemed to expect replies.
 He did not feel entirely at liberty to speak of the attacks upon living Senator's but considered himself not thus bound with reference to the arr ticie about Senator German, who. he said. had been grossly abused when on his death bed. and even pursued be- yond the grave, Calling attention to the fact that the magazine articles are based upon the assumption of secret aereenr ent between Republican and Democratic Senators for corrupt pur- poses he quoted the charge that Sena- tor German had conspired with Sena- tor Aidrich to shape the wilson-Gor- In9n. IATlH uiIl 50 us lO CHGdl tho puU~ lic. saying that it was not true and that if the author of the article had de- sired to learn the truth. he could easily have dohe SO.
 ''Whether." he said. "he knows the facts and deliberately misstated them. of whether he merely pretends to know them when he does not, he IS equally unworthy of belief"
 He then called attention to the fact that instead of Germans being chair man of the finance committee as was charged he was not at that time even q member of 1t and asked: What must fair minded men think of a writer who charges that Senator abused a posi- ticn in the face of the official record which shows that he did not occupy the position which he is charged with having abusedT
 Tn this connection he pointed out that the tariff bill in that instance as in others had been framed by the Democratic party of the House commit tee on ways and means and said that neither Senator Aldrich nor any other Republican Senator had been permit ted to see the amendments until they were perfected.
 Taking up the article in which he had been assailed, MT. Bailey said: '"rhe writer has been greatly guilty of even more vicious misrepresentation than those maoe III respect to Sshdtor German.
 In the German case he said the mis- representation as to committee posi- tion might not have been intentional, but no such extenuation can be of- fered for his misrepresentation in re- spect to me, because he read the rec ord which he distinctly misrepresents in some particulars and deliberately suppresses in others"
 Bailey Defends Himself.
 MT. Bailey then discussed at length the charges in the magazine article that he had lent himself to a scheme whereby the antitrust law of today had been eyaded by a foreign corpora tion. Of this he said that 1t had been | investigated by the very which elected me to the | Senate and it was shown to be so en- tirely unjust and absurd. that the de- cent men among my most bitter cne- | mics in Texas no longer discuss 1t"
 After giving the details connected | with the matter. Mir. Bailey added: AS | so often happens in the bitterness of political strife, the circumstance was | seized on and magnified in many ways and 1t was charged that had received a fee ranging from S50,00O to S50O,0OO | ac cording to the imagination of the re- | lator Finally one man who was more | reckless than the rest and who happen 20 10 pc h nSnutI oL the tAdS AeRtS- | ature, introduced a resolution directing an inquiry into my connection with the | ease"
 This inquiry. Mir. Bailey said, was seconded by himself and friends
 "A committee was appointed consist Ing of four gentlemen who had sup | ported me in my race for the Senate | and three who had supported my opon- | ent the result being my vindication
 The committee had. he said. made a , re port unanimously exonerating him | and the State officers from every shad- | CIV of offense. The Texas Senator also l made reference to the magazine charges | that he had been a party to an ef- | fort to cheat the Indians in Indian | Territorv out of their coal lands which would have been successful but for the | efforts of Senator LaFollette. He then called upon LaFollette to say whether he fMr Railey) had not co-operated | with him in what he (LaFollette) had done.
 The Wisconsin senator responded | promptly. saying: T take great pleas l