Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-01
SENATOR BAILEY
 |S DENOUNCED Members of Minority Fill Texas Hall of Represen- tatives Full of Epithets in Talking of the Senator.
BAILEY OVER MARK
His Speech of Last Wednesday Night Is Condemned On All Sides as IrratiOn and Ill.Adyised-His Ad. herents Stay With Him.

Austin, Tex, Feb 2S.-The af- termath of the premature ending of the investigation of charges against United States Senator Jo- seph w. Bailey came when the House of Representatives met at D. m. today. Representative after representative arose to denounce Senator Bailey for the language he had used last evening in addressing himself to men who had voted against him. Bailey's assertions were denounced as lies, his lan- guage as indecent and abusive and his manner as an insult to the House of Representatives of Texas. Representative Sam Johnson, one of the minority, denounced Bailey as "wilful, malicious and premedi- tated liar.'
 Representative R. M. Brown used language to the same effect and stated that if he had been present when the vote was taken to "vin- dicate the senator he would have voted against it. y
 Bailey's Mississippi Record. Representative Beatty was ex- tremely caustice in his remarks and spared neither the senator's public nor private record. Beatty claimed that Senator Bailey had not been all that was good and noble back in Mississippi, and he offered to pay 1 the expenses of any member of the ! legislature who wanted to go to Mississippi to find it out. The speak CT took exception to Bailey's re- marks, made by innuendo, against i member of the house to the effect that "he had gambled with negroes and had been used as an example by the ministers of his home town" !"
 Representative Reedy of Smith county vigorously assailed Bailey and denounced his utterances against the minority as false.
 Representative Jenkins, author of the minority report, condemning Bailey, pleaded guilty to the charge of once having been Populist, but said that he became a Populist when the Democratic party had violated the principles of Democracy.
 CT denounced the so-called party in the days when there was not a Democratic plank in the Democratic party" he said. 'I have been a good enough Democrat to write sev- en blanks in the state platform you stand on today"
 Bailey Men Stand by Him.
 Representative Driggus, Bailey ite, rose to question of persona privilege to eulogize Bailey. Rep resentative Dodd, another Bailey man, did the same thing.
 Representative Bell of Limestone asserted that Bailey was setting 2 very bad example to the young men of the country.
 The senators who voted for Bai ley's exoneration were invited by Bailey to have their pictures taker in group surrounding their "great chieftain" today, and they broke quorum in the Senate to have il done. The minority adjourned un til Friday morning on account o1 lack of a quorum.
 Bailey Defied.
 In consequence of Senator Bai . ley's speech of yesterday Lieutenant . Governor Davidson and a majority of the minority membership of fort,
 in the house have spoken and def,
 Bailey to defeat them.
 Bailey leaves tonight for Wash
 ington. His speech of last night , as reported in the Associated Pres! dispatches, has been universall.