The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-23
[, M. BARBER TURNS
 LOOSE DOCUMENT Opponent of Bowers Makes
 Good His Recent Threat LEGISLATIVE WORK AIRED MT. Barber Claims That MT. Bowers Had Close Relations With Rail road While Working in the Interests of People.
LEGISLATIVE WORK AIRED

Hattiesburg, Miss, June 22.-(SpeciaI)- The eliminating episode of the congress sional race in the Sixth Mississippi dis trict, between Eaton J. Bowers of Bay
 St. Louis and BE- M. Barber of Biloxi took place at Gulfport today, when MT. Barber, in an address to the voters, turned loose the document with which he had threatened Bowers previously, and
 which was partly the cause of the per sonal encounter which was narrowly averted in the course of the joint debate at Hattiesburg a week ago. The entire district was on the tip toe of expectancy for MT. Barbers disclosure today, for the document in question was altogether se- cret and mysterious, but had been de- scribed in advance as so weighty in it's import as to mean the doom of MT. Bow CTS as a public official
 The document produced by MT. Bar Der consisted of extracts from the legis- lative journal of Mississippi and the Con- gressional Record, which were represented by MT. Barber to show that when legis- lation was pending involving the interests of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad, MT. Bowers, as member of the state legisla- ture, and then as member of Congress, had urged the interest of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad against the inter- est of his constituents. The matter of legislation to which he especially referred was that where Capt. J. T. Jones, presi- dent of the Gulf and Ship Island rail- road, had endeavored to induce Congress to take off his hand and maintain the deed water channel and basin at Gulfport the terminus of the railroad. MT. Bar Der read from the records to show that when MT. Bowers represented Harrison county in the state legislature, he be- ing then the general counsel for the rail road company, he had introduced a res- olution or memorial addressed to Con- gress urging that Congress take over the improved channel and basis. A bill to this effect was later introduced in Con- gressg by Mir McClain, then representing this district, but it did not pass.
 MT. Barber read from the record to show that he himself, as member of the state legislature, had presented a me- morial addressed to Congress asking that the federal government take over not only the channel and basin, but also the pier and adjacent harbor frontage, for the use of all roads desiring access to the same, the government to reimburse the Gulf and Ship Island for it's expenditures on those Improvements. This resolution, MT. Barber asserted, was defeated "by virtue of the great influence brought 10 bear on the legislature of 1906 by the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad company with private car 100.'
 Mr. Barber proceeded to read extracts from the hearing before the committee on rivers and hal DOTS of the House of Representatives on May II. 1906, at Wash ington, when Judge J. II. Neville, then general counsel for the Gulf and Ship Island company, was interogated as to the merits of the bill then pending for the acceptance by the federal government of the channel and anchorage basin at Gulfport MT Bowers introduced Judge Neville to the committee, and made a statement of the purpose of the pending bill. Judge Neville was interrogated par
 
 the government acquiring rights over the pier and harbor frontage if the govern ment was to maintain the channel and basin. The chairman of the committee had suggested that Captain Jones should release to the war department at least a part of the water frontage, to be con- trolled for the use of the public. At this point MT. Bowers said Would not that put the government into the attitude of Af,,o int ybslr rfac h1tci 1h would not the clause just read by MT. Alexander cover all that is needed?" MT. Bowers, so MT. Barber charges, inter ferred again in behalf of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad by introducing MT Edward Hines as witness in behalf of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad"
 MT. Barber concluded his argument with the assertion that if Mr. Bowers at that time had had as much interest in the welfare of the Sixth congressional district, or the entire state of Mississippi as the committee seems to have had or as he had in the welfare of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad he would have set about to induce MT. J. T. Jones or the Gulf and Ship Island railroad to have had this deed of conveyance. suggested by the committee, and in the event that the railroad declined to do so. have iu- l troduced bill to nullify the grant made | by section 1T of the charter of the Gulf | and Ship Island railroad. And after he 1 failed to do this, and taking into consd- | eration his connection with the Gulf and | Ship Island railroad, it looks like the Gulf | and Ship Island railroad interests and the | interests of the Sixth congressional dis | trict or the entire state of Mississippi, ! were being weighed in the balance, the ! Sixth congressional district, as well as the | entire state of Mississippi, being in one | side of the balances and the Gulf and | Ship Island railroad in the other.
 MT. Bowers made speech in Gulfport | tonight
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