The Washington times., 1906-04-11
Senator Bailey in Great Speech
Scores Triumph Over Opponents
Effort Reyolutionizes Status
OF Rate Legislation.
EL0oUENcE AND LOGIC WON
Senator Hale's Announcement of Con-
version a Dramatic Incident of His
tory-Making Day in Senate.

IVY making LAY IN Senate.
II an address that was the oratorical
ano che intellectual triumph Of the ses-
sion, Senator Bailey Of Texas yesterday
wrought something like revolution in
the status Of rate legislation in the
upper house. His exposition of his the
DRY that Congress has power to limit
the minor Federal courts in issuing in
functions constituted the basis of his
speech. For four and a half hours he
occupied the floor. holding the undi-
, yided attention of the greatest audience
of the year. AS a dramatic and loren
sic achievement ii was hardly less re-
markable than in its effects upon Sen
atorial and outside opinion.
But the human, pulsing. eager interest
of Senator Bailey's great audience Of
yesterday did not relate primarily TO the
effect his argument would have The
audience had come with the instructive
conviction that he was going 70 make a
great speech. Il will put you to shame
before the American bar" the Texan
was repor ed to have said TO one OF the
great Senatorial lawyers who has op-
posed his contention from the start
That he was prepared for a supreme
effort; that he was equipped by learn
ing and research for such an effort
and that he had, with fine dramatic
sense chosen just the right time for it,
was understood by everybody who has
followed the great debate Of this win
ter; a debate, incidentally, that has
gone far to establish the intellectual
domination of the upper house. and to
81, = l. &C.
TO the giants Of the early generations
OF the Republic.
Before noon the Senate galleries we're
thronged- BY the time the Texan was
on his feet there were crowds about the
doors of the galleries awaiting the op-
portunity that never came OF slipping
into a vacated seat. But nobody va
Gated a seat during the absorbing hours
of that address. Yet the throngs blocked
the corridors outside the galleries from
beginning TO end
Physical and Mental Achievement.
1t was physical as well as a mental
achievement. The great, rich, round,
Southern voice OF the Texan-a voice
that can read charm and interest into
the dry-as-dust dictum of a court a CEN
fury dead-was in excellent condition
at the start, but after an hour It show
ed distinctly the effects Of the strain.
Then it began to improve; and at the
end. under perfect control Il was fresh
and full and clear.
The speaker did some daring things.
once. perhaps 10 rest his voice, perhaps
because he rightly calculated that II
would help him with the audience. he
sent 10 the desk a long legal excerpt
IN Ia
estins. The change from the splendid
voice and charming manner of the orator
to the dull, infiexible. uncolored mono-
tone of the reading secretary. instead
OF sending the audience away. couvinc
ed it that it wanted more Of Bailey.
There are not many mon who could
by the power of earnestness and mag
netism make a great audience OF Law
men listen so long TO a cIose-knit legal
argument Bailey started with a. very
redoubt OF solemn law terms bafora
MIN; but the event proved that these
represented only a redoubt: he had a
whole system of Notifications in 70
serve. When one deskful of renorts
and textbooks had been used in demon
strating his contention that the courts
were with him, he had another nile
brought in. and proceeded with the areu-
ment; hammering. hammering, ham
mering away with splendid good nature
but vicious persistence at his special
opponents, Senators Knox and Spooner.
Full of Self Confidence.
His air and manner betokened absolute
confidence; the confidence Of a man who
knows his weapons and his skill with
them, and who knows. too, that his ad-
versary realizes all these points. He
addressed himself now to one and now
10 the other; he anticipated their DOS
sible objections; he interjected an an
sWer, here and there, to the point that
he foresaw would be raised against
him; he opposed the Illuminating context
70 partial and, as ne thought, unfair
quotations that had been employed by
his opponent.
Not the least interesting show was
given by Senators Knox and Spooner
1. was Spooner whom Bailey most often
and most vigorously brought under the
bOmbardment of his big guns, for it
was Spooner who had with most conf
dence rushed to the demolition of the
Bailey proposition in the early stages
of its discussion. Perhaps the great
Wisconsin stalwart had looked into the
question more deeply, after committing
himself. than before taking his posi-
ton. Certain it is, that from the be-
ginning OF the session MS aspect was
that of a man who fully recognized that
he had something coming, and that the
taking of ii was not going to be pleas
ant. His face told OF anything but
comfort and confidence He seemed to
try TO assume an air of stole unCOn-
Germ; and the more he tried the more
he failed. He interrupted once, but it
was only to protest mildly, in a low
tone that by contrast with the volume
Of the Bailey periods strengthened the
feeling that nothing could resist that
flow Of eloquence and reason. and au-
thority.
Knox Listens Unmoved.
With Knox II was different The
smooth-shaven face, that scarcely needs
a cleric collar TO convince that IT is
the face OF a priest: the delicate white
hands with their tapering, We nanlsh
fingers; the great. massive head. whose
contour tells of the big brain inside
not one feature of the Pennsylvania,
by movement or expression, betrayed a
suggestion OF what might be going on
in his -ind. He is a great lawyer
is Sels :or Knox; and he might have
been a great poker player. He has a
mask Cf a face that would make some