Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-19
TALIAFERRo CHARGES FORAKER
AND MDRlcH WITH "sklLL.
Full MANAGEMENT"
REPLIES TO BAILEY
Scene of Yesterday in Senate Revived
by Texas senator-says Reply of
Chicago Tribune Correspondent Does
Not Meet Observation-Disclosures Infor-
nation Came From President.

WdoHlliStOIl, u. W., May IL WHGil
the senate met today it promptly en-
tered upon the consideration of the
rate bill Beginning with the first
amendment Senator Beveridge moved
to. strike out the words excepting
gus lines, natural and artificial" from
the operation of the provision making
pipe lines common carriers. The sug-
gestion was sharply antagonized by
Senator Foraker who charged that the
change is desired to meet the whims
of somebody who wants to influence
legislation" Senator Lodge, author Of
the amendment, admitted that he
cared very little about the gas feat
ure provision.
Hits Foraker.
y After further debate Beveridge
withdrew his amendment in order to
permit Taliaferro to present provi-
sion excluding only natural gas for
municipal purposes. Taliaferro de-
clared the senate had twice taken a
position against Foraker's "pet line,"
and yet, he added, as the bill now
stands it appears to have been in
serted He attributed this change to
the skillfull management of Aldrich,
Foraker and Carter.
There is no excuse whatever for
that remark" said Foraker, "The
change was not due to me. Il do not
do anything in surreptitious man
ner."
Bailey Reads Letters.
Senator Bailey in the senate today
revived the scene of yesterday by hav-
} ing read letter he had written to ex-
Senator Chandler asking him for any
thing he had written the President
concerning himself and the replies
from Chandler, including a copy of
Chandler's diary giving a history of
his movements on the day when GER
tain memorandum was sent to the
President. Bailey quoted from the
New York Tribune and charged he pa
per in its Washington correspd dence
with "modifing his lies"
Slap at President.
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
that the assertions of the correspond
ent made were based on information
obtained from the President or some
one near him
Bailey said he had been charged
with being impetuous, rash and dicta-
tarial, 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 MAX
Ing the charge the word "Liar'' in
order that he might be known and
Stunned of all men,
ou,ooooJU kA.Jx.-
Chicago, ILL.,, May 1.-THE Washing
ton correspondent for Chicago paper,
who was bitterly denounced by Sena-
tor Bailey in a speech in the senate
yesterday. in replying to the charges
through the columns of his paper this
morning said in part:
when Hon. Joseph w. Bailey, sena-
tor from Texas, struck at the Presi-
dent Of the United States over my
humble shoulders, for that is all he did
n the floor of the senate today, he
oparently was, unaware that there
commentary evidence in existence
10Th in the official congressional rec
ord, and in the form of written memoir
andum by former Senator William e.
Chandler absolutely proving he was an
object of suspicion to the real friends
# the Presidents railroad policy.
Suspicious Did Exist.
This is not to say that Bailey de-
served the suspicion, but that his mo-
tives and his acts in the democratic
conferences, in democratic caueuses,
on the floor of the senate and in the
conference between Tillman and
Moody, and through Chandler, with the