Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-07-24
SENATE HITS Tact
PRESIDENT REBUkED WHEN
BAILEY RESOLUTION ssADoPT-
ED BY IS TO 2s. ;.ss Z. Z
TEXAN CLASHES WITH BoRAH
Southern Senator, Bitterly Assalla
Chief Observation-Disclosures Colonel
Roosevelt In His Extended Speech
Says Latter sIandered Him..

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:& Washington. July 1s.-The senate b.
q vote Of So to 20 adopted q modinca.
ton OF Senator Baileys resolution de:
claring any attempt on the part Of %
president to influence the vote Eof any
senator upon any question . violation
Of the spirit Of the Constitution after
discussion which lasted nearly the
entire day Tuesday. f$:s. +.
Tho resolution was prompted BY
President Taft's Interference in the
Lorimer case az shown by his lettsf
to Theodore Roosevelt last January
and revealed in speech he made in
Boston last April.
Senator Bailey made this letter the
basis Of scathing denunciation Of
the president for interfering with the
constitutional rights Of the senate
and characterized the presidents ref
.erence to him an false and In
famous SANDER" 81 .s5.is.
Senator Borah defended the presi-
dent as did Senator Smith of Michi-
gan and several others. 5.5S
$ When Senator Bailey arose to
speak to his resolution instantly the
senate seats began to fill. He was
fairly started when Senator William
E.. Borah OF Idaho challenged his
allegations that President Taft had
mot been able to read the evidence
before he wrote the famous letter
Of January 6, 1911. to Roosevelt. SEN
ator Borah was mentioned In the let
ter as the presidents advisor. 3 sa.s.
Bailey insisted and sustained his
point that the president had not read
all the evidence. Lorimer in his
speech made the same charge based
on the fact that the report did not
reach the document rooms until the
day after the letter was written.
/. II want to show just how oncious
and meddlesome the presid ent was in
this matter" Bailey declared, !. az he
had the clerk read the letter. II
T "He hardly uses that term now.
guess. 4 commented Bailey. evoking .
litter as the salutation. my Dear
Theodore" was read. IS
4 He took up the letter and analysed
it. X. III II 81 33,.5.s55i u
.@f Sin Gods name, has the senate Of
the United States reached such I'M
gspeakable degradation" he cried,
that the president must summon sen.
}ators to the White House to urge
them to discharge their duty under
their oath OF office pat the part where
President Taft said he: had "sum-
moned senators to the White House
to urge them to be honest Z He
fsowed the seeds here which cul.
minated In Chicago in splitting 9
great party" he said. The president
may find 1t necessary to give out the
other letters to which he refers AZ
the campaign progresses and the for
mert president asks them. n &.
..I1e has Just as much right to sum
mon il member of the Supreme court
and tell him how to decide lawsuit
asxhe has to summon q senator and
tell him how to decide the future OF
another senator. He has more right
for the judges are creatures Of nh
hand:
When the president of the United
States declared i intended to keep
the senator from Illinois In his seat
regardless of the law and the evi.
dence, he penned a false and malici.
Gus SANDER against me" said Bailey.
Even II the president had right
to use his power to influence the
vote, Senator Bailey charged he acted
enormously because In the letter OF
January s, 1911, Mr.. Taft wrote he
had only read "such Of the evidence
as he could get Al" %5
us it fair to try a man on his good
name of what is dearer than his
name .on such evidence as could
get at 2" demanded Senator Bailey.
The Texas senator suggested that
he had been singled out because Colo
mel Roosevelt entertained an ancient
prejudice against him. q .
81 once proved that he slandered
me- added Senator Bailey, "and when
l denounced him, as now intend to
denounce the present president, the
country held up Its hands in horror
None held them higher than the pres
ent president, Lut I have lived long
enough to see him ransack the, rec
ords Of the war department to convict
Colonel Roosevelt Of q falsehood and
he seems to have succeeded. When
the president penned that infamous
SANDER Of me in this letter no one
knew it better than the president Of
the United States himself. *
F.. n d. 80 as, "a