The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-20
BAILEY SCORES
 GOV. JOHNSON Declares He Should Study
 Tariff. RECKLESS OF THE TRUTH The Senate Drops Into a Party Dis eussion. Both Democrats snd Republicans Haunted Each Other with tho De- gree of Dissensions Each Party has suffered.

Washington, May ls.-The Senate dropped into a party discussion late today and Democrats and Republicans using at times strong language in . good natured way. taunted each other with the degree of dissensions each party has suffered during the consid- eration of> the tariff.
 The debate, was participated by Mir. Bailey. who charged the Republicans with entering into a conspiracy by ex- aggerating Democratic dissensions in order to hide their own difflculties. He said he had by careful observation re- gently become convinced "that de- liberated and systematic plan had been inaugurated to obscure the differences on the Republican side by exaggerat- ing and even nisrepresenting the dif- ferences on this side"
 This statement called Mir. Hale to his feet. Mfr. Bailey readily giving way to the Senator from Maine. Mfr. Hale assured the Senator From Texas that there was no reason for his sus- picion and he added that the fact was that the newspapers. seizing upon dis- sensions in either party. display them prominently as picturesque fea- lures. He assured the Texan that nothing beyond that in his opinion existed in respect to his suspicion of conspiracy.
 MT. Hale declared that there would be no failure to enact 2 protective tar iff bill and he declared that when 1t was all over, all the Republicans would support it and all the Democrats would oppose 1t.
 Mir. Bailey. resuming. referred to Q published interview with Governor Johnson of Minnesota, criticising the minority In the Senate in It's attitude toward the tariff bill.
 'If this represents the views of Mir Johnson" Mir. Bailey said. then he might better be at home studying the tariff question than seeking Demo- cratic favora in other States. If this interview was authorized or sanction ed by Governor Johnson, he was ut terly reckless of the truth and is dis qualified for any station. His expla- nation is that the railroads of the South have interested themselves in this fegisfafIon and have overcome the c0nsciencss of some Senators. Flo ought, if he knows that. in the cause of truth, to specify who are the men to whom he refers"
 Attitude of Democrats.
 Defining the Democratic attitude toward the tariff question. Mir. Bailey declared that the day when Democrats would favor free raw material had passed and said that doctrine was ex- pressed by Democrats in the past, who had hoped by such fayors to attract northern manufacturers.
 '"The Democratic party" said MT. Bailey, ~repudiated the heresy of free raw material
 He defended the vote of Democrats who favored revenue tax on iron ore. He ridieuled five per cent reiuc- tion' in articles of the pending bill which he said were for the benefit of manufacturers using the articles re- ceiving the reduction.
 The discussion then shifted to the iron and steel schedule
 T was called upon and asked to vote for duty on iron ore by men who represented the United States Steel Corporation or subsidiary com Aanies." said Senator Smith of Mary land, when pressed by Mfr. Tillman to say how he knew the steel corpora ton wanted duty on iron ore. Mir. Smith defended his vote for free iron ore as one to encourage competing steel corporations.
 MT. Bailey again rising. said he pro- posed to vote to place oil and its pro ducts on the free list because, he safI. a duty on it would produce no reyen,Ie and would only increase the price of oil to the people who use 1t.
 And yet.'' he said two excellent gentlemen recently called on me and spent an hour trying to convince me that the Standard oil Company wants oil on the free Hat"
 Referring again to the anti -trust law, Mir. Bailey said thak if he were Attorney General with competent as- sistants, he could break up all unlaw- ful combinations It would only h.. necessary. he said. to put a few of the violators in jail
 "In the Southern States recently" he said. two men were put in 1a1i for violating the antitrust law ana thosa sentences will dissolve the turpentine trust"
 Senator Rayner also defended b,s vote In favor of free iron ore. which he said he had cast to help fin breai,ng tion. por@-
 Whenever I can vote for a r.w material that will destroy one of thesa monopolies," he said, T will vote sor 1t. I will never vote for a nr6tac.tS,a duty but always for a duty Sor tss purpose of revenue" t"S