The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
SENATOR'S HAVE
 LIVELY DEBATE Republicans and Democrats launt Each Other Severely BAILEY STARTS THE FUN Hale and Bailey Have War of Woros About Dissensions in Each Party
 Which Hold Back
 Legislation.
 
BAILEY STARTS THE FUN

Washington, May 19-The Senate dropped into a party discussion late to day and democrats and republicans using at times strong language in a good nat ured way, taunted each other with the degree of dissensions each party has suf- fered during the consideration of the tar if The debate was precipitated by MT. Bailey, who charged the republicans with entering into a conspiracy by exagger- ating democratic dissensions in order to hide their own difficulties He said he had by careful observation recently be- come convinced that a deliberate and systematic plan had been inaugurated to obscure the differences on the republican side by exaggeraating and even misrep- resenting the differences on this side.'
 This statement called Mir. Hale to his feet, MT. Bailey readily giving way to the senator from Maine. MT. Hale as- sured the senator from Texas that there was no reason for such suspicion, and he added that the fact was that the newspapers. seizing upon dissensions in either party. display them prominently as picturesque features. He assured the 16Adu lLdt AOlliluB DeyOnu lndl III HIS opinion existed in respect to his suspi- cion of conspiracy.
 MT. Hale declared that there would be no failure to enact a protective tar if bill and he declared that when it was all over all the republicans would support it and all the democrats would oppose 1t.
 MT. Bailey, resuming, referred to pub lished interview with Governor Johnson {., the Senate upon it's attitude toward the tariff bill.
 "1f this represents the views of MT. Johnson" MT. Bailey said, then he might better be at home studying the tariff question than seeking democratic favor in other states. If this interview was authorized or sanctioned by Governor Johnson he was utterly reckless of the truth and Is disqualified for any station His explanation is that the railroads of the south have interested themselves in this legislation and have overcome the consciences of some senator's He ought if he knows that, in the cauN of truth, to specify who are the men to whom he refers"
 Defining the democratic attitude toward the tariff question MT. Bailey declared that the day when democrats would fla vor free raw material had passed and
 
 ocrats in the past who had hoped by such favor to attract northern manufactur- CTS.
 "The democratic party" said MT. Bailey, "repudiated the heresy of free raw material"
 He defended the vote of democrats who favored a revenue tax on iron ore. He rediculed "5 per cent~reduction" in articles of the pending bill which he sal turers using the articles receiving the reduction.
 The discussion then shifted to the iron and steel schedules.
 q was called upon and asked to vote for a duty on Iron ore by men who represented the United States Steel cor poration or subsidiary companies, said Senator Smith of Maryland, when pressed by Mr. Tillman to say how he knew the steel corporation wanted a duty on iron ore. MT. Smith defended his vote for free iron as one to en- courage comp steel corporations.
 MT. Bailey again rising, said he pro- posed to vote to place oil and It's prod ucts on the free list because, he said. duty on it would produce no revenue and would only increase the price of oil to the people who use it.
 And yet" he said, two excellent
  spent an hour trying to convince me that the Standard Oil company wants oil on the free list.
 Referring again to the antitrust law, MT. Bailey said that if he were Attorney General with competent as sistants he could break up all unla comb nations It would only be nec- essary, he said, to put a few of the vfolators in jail.
 Tn the southern states recently" he said, two men were put In jail for violating the antitrust law and those sentences will dissolve the turpentine trust"
 Senator Rayner also defended his vote In favor of free iron ore which he said he had cast in helping to break up the United States Steel corporation
 "Whenever I can vote for a raw ma terial that will destroy one of these monopolies," he said T will vote for it. I will never vote for a protective duty but always for duty for the purpose of revenue