Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-17
RATE BILL REPORTED
Senate Concludes Discussion Of Measure in
Committee Of Whole,
ANTl-PASS SECTION IS AMENDED
t B1empts Families of Employees, Care
Takers Of Live Stock and Others,
PIPE LINE PROVISION ALSO CHANGED
Line Across Isthmw Of Panama Not
Subject to Provisions
ALLEY ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT
Texas senator Blames Executive for
Newspaper Articles CharEinE
Him with Acting I'm Bad
FRitk,

WASHINGTON, May i6-The recent Of.
forts Of the president and the democratic
senatorial leaders to reach an agreement
IN the rate bIll received further notice in
the senate today from Senators Bailey and
/ fillman The matter was referred to by
/ the Texas senator in the course of a per-
! soual explanation called out by an article
/ in the chicago Tribune charging Mr.. Bailey
! with failure to fnd common ground. and
/ by Mr. Tillman in a speech in support OF
} Mr. Bailey and in presenting further
statement from former Senator Chandler.
In his address Mr.. Bailey denounced the
article in question as a "he" and the author
and insprer Of 1t liars
! The consideration of the rate bill in COM
mittee of the whole was concluded and the
measure was then reported to the senate
where there will be opportunity to review
and alter all the amendments heretofore
made
/ Practically the entire day was devoted TO
. the consideration OF the anti-pass amend
ment. which was adopted after making So
many exceptions as to arouse laughter in
the senate everytme the provision was
Z read.
The work OF the senate was confined to
the partial consideration of the pipe line
provision which was amended so as to-
| strike out the Morgan proviso extending
/ its operation to other countries where the
! United States had jurisdiction.
statement by Mr.. Bailey.
Upon convening today the senate promptly
took up the railroad rate bill, the anti-pass
amendment being the immediate subject
OF consideration.
The calm of the discussion was disturbed
today by a personal interruption by Senator
Bailey. who rose 10 question of personal
privilege TO make reply to charge made in
the Chicago Tribune yesterday by a Wash
ington correspondent to the effect that MIR.
4 Bailey had been responsible for the failure
of the agreement between the president
and Senator Tillman. Former Senate
Chandler was given as authority for the
statement that 'rilnan had been suspicious
of Bailey. who (. was also stated was
really opposed to rate legislation and was
also in constant conference with Senator
Aldrich with the purpose of defeating the
rate bill. After this statement had been
read Mr. Bailey took the floor and said
deliberately:
I have taken no part in the question OF
| veracity between the president and Mi.
Chandler and l had not even made any
public expression on the question of the
good faith, because ! knew neither about
either question: l had never conferred
| with the president directly nor with MI.
Chandler. II was, therefore, matter Of
great surprise to me when senator called
my attention to the extract which / have
read. That correspondence, it was under
stood, was sent by correspondent who is
very close to the White House and is
presumed to speak with some degree OF
authority concerning transactions there. /
do not know as TO the truth OF that and l
do not charge that this statement was made
with authority. But / denounce the publi-
| cation an unqualified deliberate and
malicious lie. l denounce that corTe-
; spondent as an unqualified, deliberate and
p malicious liar. / denounce the man who
: inspired the statement as an unqualified,
deliberate and malicious liar, whoever he
may be and however high the Office he
Z holds.
The statement was made in a deliberate
monotone. but it none the less inn
- pressive on that account. It was received
$ with absolute silence and the silence con-
l tinued for a few moments when, indeed
. Senator Tillman had taken the moor also
on a question of personal privilege because
9 the article quoted had stated that he had
t. been suspicious of Mr.. Bailey. He had read
the parts of the correspondents letter
4 which Mr. Bailey had omitted and then
= proceeded with his amendment, saying:
This correspondence Is undoubtedly a
muck rake. Into whose house the handle
goes or what hand holds it l will not at
| | tempt to say
= | hoods in the article but he desired to ad-
dress himself first TO a denial that he had
ever been suspicious Of Senator Bailey.
He declared his great esteem and admira .
| ton for the Texas senator and that their
e cordial relations had always existed.
i Texas senator Attacks President.
+ When Senator Tillman concluded Senator
s Bailey again took the floor and said that
e his attention had been called to another
l. article. printed in the New York Tribune
n Of today. He said II was Of the same char
J. acter as that printed by the Chicago Trib-
E une and that evidently they had been timed
% to bring them both TO Washington at the
% same time Pointing to the press gallery
/ he said:
n 81 intend to put in the record, upon the
p statement Of more than one reputa bic
ID newspaper correspondent in that gallery
W and as a rule they are as honorable as
he senator's on this floor. on their authority
ID l state that the two chief cuckoos OF this
rs administration are the correspondents OF
g the New York Tribune and the Chicago
Tribune.
And therefore II seems to me conclusive
that this sIander proceeds from the White
House. I hope. for the honor OF my coun
y try, that it does not proceed from th'
president himself
But II he be man or high sense ol
honor he will see to it that senators are
~ not sIandered by his subordinstes, ana th'
III miserable wretch who communicated Il
- these newspapers. and who sought through
them to communicate to the country
slander on me which people might discuss
- rather than the issues that have beef
y raised, he is UNIT for his high ONCE. an'
VI the man who perpetrsted that infsmy vii
pay for II with his position and II th
man continues to hold his once II Is to b
a. assumed that what he has done has beel
IN with the approval Of his chief."
* Senator Culberson presented a substitute
ar amendment permitting railway employees
as their families. railway attorneys and care
rs takers Of live stock 10 use free transporta
as tiCa
ne The Culberson amendment was then ex
he tended so as 10 except 30 many person
ana classes that when rad V arouse