The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
SENATOR BAILEY STANDS IN RIGHTS Issues Challenge to Texas Alt
 torney General WANTS PROOF PRODUCED Did Not Think This Official Would De. scend to the Tricks of Politician
 to Blacken Officials
 Character.
WANTS PROOF PRODUCED

Character.
 Bailey, who is here from Washington to answer charges made by Attorney General Davidson of Texas to the effect that Senator Bailey received money from both the Waters-Pierce and Standard oil companies through President H. c. Pierce of the former company for securing the readmission of the Waters-Plerce com paov into this state, after having been busted six years ago, under the anti trust laws and which company is again defending itself from custer proceedings, gave out a lengthy statement tonight, most exhaustive of the matter under dis cussion. While Senator Bailey admits re- ceiving money from President Pierce of the Waters Pierce Oil company, to the amount of some $15,OO0, as charged by Attorney General Davidson he says that it was in the nature of a loan, and he returned it. and that he is prepared to prove his statements to that effect. He admits having received several sums of money from MT Pierce, among the num- Der specified being loan of SS000, which he made with MT. Pierce at one time, when he needed some money in hurry and which he returned in season.
 Never Able to Find Note.
 He says that MT. Pierce was never able to find his note when he went to settle it, but that he gave him an acknowledge ment in writing and that he now holds that acknowledgement, that these mat ters are of documentary evidence, which should prove conclusively that there was nothing underhanded about any of his ac- tions as has been intlmated. He asked At torney General Davidson today to fur nish him with all the records that gen tlenan held. concerning drafts, etc., that showed that he (Bailey), had received money from Pierce or the Waters Pierce Ul company
 This the attorney general declined to do. saying that MT. Bailey knew whether he had received any money from these oil interests and Mr. Pierce but if in a written communication, Senator Bailey would say that he did not receive any money from Pierce that he would show him the documentary evidence in his pos session and which is understood he pro poses using in the trial of the case next March. In reply to this challenge Senator Bailey says:
 Bailey Makes Challenges.
 Your declnation is placed upon what you must have known, if you are familiar with the public prints, was an impossible condition. You must have known when that letter was written that I had stated
 
 been employed by H. Clay Pierce In many transactions, as his attorney, for which service he paid me. and you therefore im- posed a condition which you know was impossible of performance.
 ''I had hoped that you did not wish to descend from the exalted position which you held to engage in political warfare against me, and believed that you would afford me an opportunity to examine pa pers supposed to be in your possession, which l had denounced as forgeries, at a time when every effort of interruptions and designing enemies is being concen- trated to blacken my character and repu- tation.
 Should Meet Issue SquareIy.
 If it be your purpose to use that power of your official position in an effort to destroy me by use of papers which l
  I am informed through your questions. the public prints and otherwise, they pur- port to reflect then as a manly man you should meet the issue squarely and no longer prate about being filled with shame and sorrow concerning the existence of papers which I denounced to be spurious and which you refuse to let, me see.
 Before concluding the reference to your letters, l want to state to you and to the public that your assumption that l have had an opportunity to ascertain if any sums of money are charged on the DOORS of the Waters-Pierce oil company. as expended, incurred with reference to the Texas anti-trust cases other wise, is wholly gratuitous. 1 have never exam ined or asked to examine or asked to have examined any books, vouchers or papers of any character with reference to the business of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, and and except the request made of you. l have never been it's at torney, l have no occasion to examine it's books, and I have no information at all about what it's books disclose. NO dis charged, dscredited servant of the Wa ters-Pierce oil company has come to me with papers purporting to reflect the re- cords of that company. l have had no access to such papers and you are the only person of whom l have even made any request in relation to the natter
 Answers the Question.
 ,'I will now answer your questions. Your first question:
 April ?, 1900, you received from Mir Pierce $500. This sum was subsequently returned to Pierce by the Waters-Pierce oil company, and charged as account of Texas cases Was this sum given to you as a loan or fee? If loan. has 1t ever been paid? If a fee, for what service?
 When H. Pierce asked me to intercele with the attorney general in behalf of his company, and l agreed to do so, he offered to pay me for the service and I declined to receive any pay on the grounds, as I have stated above, that only the service which l intended to ren- der was a friendly and not legal one and was not, therefore. such a service as a lawyer with my view of his profession would accept compensation for perform ing He asked if was not lawyer, and I told him that I was but was one of the kind who practice law and not influence. I told him, however, that I was then on my way to Kentucky for the purpose of selling some horses to raise a sum of money that I needed, but that in view of a political situation which would bring me back to Texas and which I had al- ready explained to him when I told him n tbp att