The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-21
THEN IF GUILTY TO RESIGN
Representative Cooke Will File Today with Senate Investigating Com mittee Charges on 36 Counts
 Against Standard oil.


 cording to his friends, there will be no postponement of the vote on Tuesday. Baileys friends are authority for the statement that they will insist upon hearing to any person who has charges to make.
 The Bailey followers are candid to ad- init that they did not want any inves- 1 tigation on account of It's annoyance and | injustice to the senator, but now that both houses of the legislature have taken the initiative in the matter of ordering an investigation the Bailey adherents say that they intend seeing to 1t that it is conducted along proper lines.
 Representative Cooke tomorrow will file charges against Senator Bailey with the Senate committee on investigation. MT, Cooke on Information and belief makes charges on thirty-six counts, a synopsis i of which follows:
 Charges Against Bailey. 1. That Senator Bailey while a member | in Congress was interested in United l States government mule contract with one Steger or StaRer and Lebatt.
 2. That during the early months of the year 1900 Bailey entered into agreement with John Francis brother of David R. Francis and as well with David R. Fran cis, and Joseph sibley together with H. Clay Pierce of the Waters-Plerce oil com pany of Missouri in consideration of which agreement and conspiracy and ser vices rendered by Bailey he was to be assisted in the purchase of the Gibbs ranch in Dallas county, whereby Bailey ia understood to have used personal, of ficial and political influence, that Waters Pierce oil company might defend an ous- ter judgment in Texas
 | 8 That Bailey on or about the 25th day of April. 1900, called on H. Clay Pierce in St. Louis and conspired with him on behalf of the Waters Pierce and Standard oil companies to defeat the aforesaid Judgment.
 4. That Bailey should have known that the Waters-Pierce oil company was "out- | lawed" in Texas as an interstate trust l and thf H. Clay Pierce and others were under indictments in McLennan county. | 5. That Bailey received thrty-three hun dred dollars as retainer fee for said ser l vices and pretending that the same was | loan, or fec for personal, political and official influence in the premises
 6. That Bailey's official duties required
 
 which he returned to Texas In company | with H. Clay Pierce and J. D. Johnson, | and that while en route to Texas Bailey conspired with these men to secure a com promise and dismissal of certain penalty suits and pursuant to said conspiracy teegraphed Oscar L. Stribbling of the law firm of Henry X Stribbling of Waco, Tex, to meet said Bailey and his co-conspira- | tors at Hillsboro as they were en route from St. Louis to Austin, Tex; that | Strlbbling did not meet them, and they | went to Waco and conferred with local counsel of the Waters-Pierce oil com- pan to-wit: George Clark and Henry & Strbbling, the latter firm being associate counsel for the state of Texas. and with the district judge to arrange legal or H. legal disposition of the litigation: that Bailey and associates refrained from con ferrlng with Cullen r. Thomas before ar | engagement with Henry Stribbling.
 To Readmit oil Trust. T. That Bailey, Johnson and Pierce went to Austin and Bailey used personal, po- ltical and official influences to induce Thomas s. Smith, attorney general, and Secretary of State Hardy to permit and issue a permit for the re-admission of the Waters Pierce oil company.
 8. That Bailey and "co-conspirators' returned from Austin to Waco and re- sumed negotiations of dismissal of the hr that Bailey, on May 2, 1900, used his in- fiuence for the dismissal of compromise | of suits, and to that end did approve and endorse a proposition to pay Henry x Stribbling a sum of money about five times larger than they were entitled to by law and that effort was made by Bailey to influence the district judge, and that an unsuccessful effort was made to influence Cullen F. Thomas.
 g. That in June, 1900, Bailey indorsed, approved or conniyed at payment of sl5O0 "to pay to Oscar l.. Stribbling of the firm of Henry & Stribbling hush money" and that the same was cum nngly concealed as a personal loan.
 10. That Bailey well knew further that the sum of $3l00 was illegtimately paid and distributed at Waco by his "co-con- | spirators" to Henry & Stribbling, and possibly to others during the month ot November 1900, notwithstanding thut Bailey on January IT, 1907. made false and deceptive statements in the house of representatives in reference to the $3100, claiming 1t was to reft the private car of H. Clay Pierce on account of the porter having the smallpox.
 Ii. That Bailey received the sum of szO0 from H. Clay Pierce for account of the ] Waters-Perce oil company after being advised of the illegal and fraudulent status of that company, and that Bailey had other financial dealings with said firm in 1900, which informant does not know but which would be investigated.
 12. That Bailey received the sum of $100,O0O for exercising his influence as aforesaid from the Standard oil company | of New Jersey, or the Waters-Pierce Oil company, notwithstanding his oath in 1901
 13 That Bailey used his influence in shaping the form of the Investigating committee in 1901. and concealed later | transactions now Inearthed.
 IA. That Bailey, in 1901, while en route to Texas to defend himself before an in- vestigaing committee. did wire H. Clay Pierce to forward him $500 which in- formant believes was used to defeat said investigation, or to so manipulate the same so as to exonerate himself and shield the Waters-Pierce Oil company Ito the shame of Texas"
 15 That Bailey had said to the invest igatng committee. that honest men could make nothing in the public serv- ice" and that now he declares that "he despises those public men who think it
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