The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-28
Heasts Cosmopolitan Prints False and Offensive Articles
THE SENATOR IS APPLAUDED
Is Supported By LaFollette In Expian. ation of Charge That He Had Con splred to Rob Indians of
 Their Lands.

Washington June 27.-The first reply in the Senate to the series of articles run ming through the Cosmopolitan magazine undf the head of "Tne Treason of the Senate" was made today by Senator Bailey of Texas who spoke especially Of the attack upon himself and generally of the attacks upon other senators.
 The Texas senator read a portion of his speech from manuscript and he spoke with even more than his ordinary delibera- tion. Beginning with the statement that he did not make a practice to take mo- tice of criticisms he said that the fact that the Cosmopolitan is owned 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 from personal standpoint ''because it is of kind which if dealt with in that way would require different place." He then added: Indeed if I considered 1t purely and only from personal point of view I would not regard it as worthy of any noticed, for nothing which this magazine can say will injure me with my con- stituents or in the estimation of those with whom I have served in either house of Congress-
 Owes 1t to American People.
 But" he went on, '1 cannot free my self from the belief that I owe to the American people to show them what man. Ter of men these who are striving to de- stroy popular faith in the integrity of all public servants"
 He then said that he had been informed that several months ago the Cosmopoli- tan had been sold to W. R. Hearst and that immediately afterwards .'The Trea- son of the Senate, articles had begun to appear He then declared that instead of being written with care and with re- gard to the truth, these articles have been so manlfestly designed to prejudice rather than to inform the public, that intelligent men have laid them aside in absolute disgust" still some people seem- ed to expect replies.
 He did not feel entirely at liberty to speak of the attacks upon living sena- tors but considered himself not thus bound with reference to the article about Senator German who he said had been grossly abused when on his death bed and even pursued beyond the grave. Calling attention to the fact that the magazine articles are based upon assumption of secret agreement between republican and democratic senators for corrupt purposes he quoted the charge that Senator Cor man had conspired with Senator Aldrich to shape the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill so as to cheat the public, saying that 1t was not true and that if the author of the article had desired to learn the truth he could easily have done so.
 .sWhether he knows the facts and de- liberately misstated them or whether he merely pretends to know them. when he does not. he Is equally unworthy of be- lief"
 Misstatement of Fact.
 He then called attention to the fact that instead of German being the chair man of the finance committee as was charged, he was not at that time even a member of it. and asked: "What must fair-mnded men think of writer who charges that a senator abused posi- tion in the face of official record which shows that he did not occupy the posi- tion which he Is charged with having abused?"
 In this cOnnecuOn ne pOlIteu out tlldL the tariff bill in that instance. in others had been framed by the dem- ocratc party of the House committee on ways and means. and said that neither Senator Aldrich nor any other republi- can senator had been permitted to see the amendments until they were per- fected.
 Taking up the article In which he had been assailed, Mir. Bailey said:
 ..The writer has been guilty of even more viciors misrepresentation than those made in respect to Senator Cor man"
 Tn the German case he said the mis- representation as to the committee posi- tion might not have been intentional, but no such extenuation can be offered for his misrepresentation in respect to me, because he read the Record. which he distinctly misrepresents In some par ticulars, and deliberately suppresses in others.
 Accusations Against 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 evaded by foreign corporation. Of this he said that 1t had been thoroughly in- vestigated by the very legislature which elected me to the Senate, and it was shown to be so entirely unjust and absurd, that the decent men among my most im- placable enemies in Texas no longer dis cuss It.
 After giving the details connected with the matter, MT. Bailey added:
 As so often happens in the bitterness of political strife, the circumstance was seized on and nlagnif1ed In many ways, and it was charged that I had received a fee ranging from $50.000 to S5OO,OOO, ac- cording to the imagination of the relator. Finally one man who was more reckless than the rest, and who happened to be member of the Texas legislature intro duced resolution directing an inquiry into my connection with the case"
 This inquiry MT. Bailey said was sec- unded by himself and friends.
 "A committee was appointed consisting of four gentlemen who had supported me in my race for the Senate. and three who had supported my opponent, the result being my vindication."
 Report Unanimously Exonerated Him.
 The committee had, he said. made a report unanimously exonerating him. and the stAte officers from every shadow of