New-York tribune., 1906-06-28
BAILEY STRIKES BACK.
Rephes to Treason of the Senate
Charges.
lFr,m The Tribune Bureau. ]

leries which paid the strctest attention to his re-
marks and broke into enthusiastic applause
when he concluded to-day replied to the attack on
himself in THE Cosmopolitan Magazine, the arti-
Gle being one OF entitled THE Treason of
the Senate" by David Graham Phillips
Senator Bailey said he would not have noticed
this attack had il not been published in ma ea zine
owned by a member % the House, and he proceed
ed to give his reasons for making this statement.
saying that Representative William r. Hearst by
personally guaranteeing the bonds OF this agazne
! TO the amount ssas,ee6 when it was recently in
financial trouble had secured control of it's policy
and management
Mr.. Bailey referred 70 The charges made By Phi-
lips against Senator Goffnan which made
public as that Senator lay dying. tie said that
! Phillips charged ar Gorrntn with 1siae the Wilson
| bill in tte Committee Finance when ar. Cor
! man was not member or that committee He
said that Phillips ehsrgea SIR. Afirfch with con-
spiracy with Mr.. Gorrlfa In this committee whom
Mr. AidIich and no other Republican Senator
( TIE bin until it was reported to the Senate.
! Taking rp nls OWE case. he read Phlpss charges,
item by stern and proceeded TO prove by public
ords and documentary evidence their faisity.
The article charged ar. Bailey with being the
tool Of tho Standard Oh Company In the Waters
Pierce OH Company case, citing d. A. McFaH as
making affidavit charging Pailey with COM
piicity. while Mir. Baiey showed By the Journal of
the Texas Legislature that, when McFal was called
upon 10 testify before investigating committee
he word that he sick and unable to APP
went to McFalls house to talza his ofioavit NJ
Fan said he could not swear any fact or cir
cumstances whicn would tend to establish the
charge.
AS TO the statement that he was exonerated bv q
vote cf 20 to II, Mr. Bailey declared that he was
eNonerated unanimously. both the majority and
minority reports, the former having been adopted
ny the vote given. completely vindicated him. but
ue majority report denounced the men who had
preferred the charges. while the minority report
dld not. Mr. Bailey further exhibited the record
showing that he was elected by a vote OF 137 to G.
lie denounced the statement that there was anv
machine IN Texas and said that, before being
elected to The Senate he canvassed the state for \
month and spent less than sf00 He declared that
IN his six elections to the House and one to the
Senate he had spent far less than Mr. Hearst had
spent to carry a single ward in the MayoraIty
campaign in New York when, according to the
latters affidavit he had spent $4,000 in trying TO
be elected
dramatic incident occurred when Mr. RaiIev
took UP the assertion that last April. when a huge
!hoiah Territory coal. timber and oil grab was on
tS stealthN way through the traitor Senate under
the auspices of the merger and under cover If . /
fake railway rate bin excitement II was La Fol- !
lette. new Senator from far away wisconsin who |
opposed it."
lhe so-called grab was an amendment made
pS the Senate committee TO the Indian bill pro |
Niding for the immediate sale of tho mineral lands
IN lhdlan Territory The article charged Mr. Bailey
with opposing MIR. la Toilette on this point Mr. |
Bailey appealed 10 Mr.. La Toilette, to admit that /
he oBalley) had discovered the legislation before
La Toilette came to the Senate and that after
La Toilette came he had co-operated with hin,
Mr. La Toilette said he cheerfuly admitted the
facts curious circumstance is that Mr.. Bailey
then, as he did to-day. frankly admite ed that he
advocated the sale of The lands in the interest
of the white men of the territory. He thought
protection Of the nations wards, the Indians. was
sentimental. and not practical, craftsmanship 1t
CasnfOY> afr-
from Wisconsin. who protected the rights of the
Indians by moving TO lay the table the pro
vision for selling these lands, and Mr. La Toilette
voted against the motion.
Mr.. Spooner had explained to the Senate his view
Of the resolution which Mr.. Bailey offered, for i'm
mediate sale saying that these lands would
terfally increase In value in the next year and
this was the best reason why thu government. as
trustee for the Indians should retar the owner
ship of the lands and control them, paying the
ROYALTIES to the Indians Mr.. La Toilette moved TO
amend the Senat. amendment by providing that
the lands when sold should not into the hands
of railroads, their directors stockholders. Mr..
Spooner argued that only by retaining title TO the
lands could the government prevent their passing
into the hands of corporations, and that this could
he accomplished by leasing the lands There were
two votes to table the Senate amendment and leave
the House feature, which provided for leasing and
Mr. La Toilette voted against the motion each
time
moro hills authorizing railroads in the Territory
than any other Senator, Mr.. Bailey showed that IN
all but one instance they had been introduced by
request and had been so marked thus dlsaVowlns
all responsibility for them Referring to the char
acterization Of the Rate bill fake. Mr.
Bailey said: That will affect nobody except some
body who is so weakminded to believe what he
sees in Mr.. Hearsts magazine
The fierce light of publicity" he said, in conclu-
son ought to beat every in public life, but
for Gods sake let il he the pure white light of
truth untainted by any streak Of yellow
He also exhibited an editorial from of Mr..
IIearst's newspapers in which the readers
advised TO buy the magazine containing the Urea
son" articles and declared that commercialism was
intermixed with mendacity. Mr.. President" he
l think about these people, but that would offend
the dignity and proprety of the Senate, and for
Other Senators have been tempted to reply to the
Treason articles, but one has thought it worth
while 10 do so and they have been passed over In
silence. II IS possible, however. that MIR. Baileys
course may lead to replies from others who have
been attacked.
In the hfth OF his series of articles. under the
title The Treason of the Senate" David Graham
Phillips speaks Of Senator Bailey in part as fol-
lows:
The readn,ission of the Standard Oil COMPANY
into II xas III May. 1907 the purchase of the Grape
chine Legislature to the Senate in Janua:y 1901 the
entry into the bIeedng OF trotteIs in 1902 the large
lions with such notorious expoites of
and politics as the controllers of the Frisco and
Rock Island systems: the hawking of securities /
and their Western and Southern deptndenciesali
these things together compose arIe5ting picture
mate commerce with interests not suspected eithe!
ieres1 IN pure politics and honest equal progress.
Does this composite picture. of BaileYs own pa mt
OF the people the nit leader OF opposto., to the
traitor MERGE. enctadeiied in the traitor Senate?