Arizona republican., 1913-07-19
Senator BristOw's ResOlu- tion Inquiring How Much the Secretary of State Needs to Live on Goes to the Table
THE OCCASION
 FOR WARM DEBATE
Arizona Senator Became In volved in an Argument With the Author of the Resolution Over Purely Personal Matters
AesorrArrD PRESS D1sPATCTIl


 WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Secretary Bryan's policy of lecturing during his vacation time involved the senate in a bitter controversy today. It began when Senator BristoW ignoring the de- feat of his resolution, directed at Bry- ans action insisted upon being heard in severe criticism of a cabinet officer.
 Before the debate ended charges and counter charges between senators on the two sides of the chamber, brought the senate to a high pitch of excite ment. Senator Ashurst produced an old letter of Senator BristOw's which he declared indicated that BristoW in 1906 had been perfectly willing t. take federal position and devote only part of his time to it.
 Senator BristoW rctOrted with charge that Ashurst had spent over hundred dollars of the public funds sending private telegrams that should have been paid from his own pocket The charge was denied by Senator Ashurst but which Senator BristoW agreed to prove by producing the orig inal tclcgrams paid for out of the sen ate funds.
 
 debate went into the general field of public featuring and writing. Demo- cratic senators called attention to the Chautauqua platform work of Senator Bristow and many others and to the newspaper writing BristoW had done at the Baltimore convention. The Kansas senator emphatically declared that he had never neglected the duties of his office
 "I am not on trial here" he said.
 "I simply want to show people who live in glass houses should not throw stones said Senator James. Senators Bristow, Townsend. Fall and others attacked in strong language the action of Secretary Bryan in de- Ifvering paid lectures at a time, when they claimed, public questions required his close attention to the affairs of the state department.
 BristoW'S resolution introduced on Tuesday calling upon President Wilson to state what salary would be sufficient to secure all of Bryan's time. 1t was tabled by vote of il to % as soon as it came up today, all the democrats and Senators Borah and PoindcXtcr voting against it.
 A prepared attack on Secretary Bry- ans action by Senator Townsend and an extensive defence by Senator Lewis 1 illumined the oratory of the day. | Townsend insisted that the examule of the secretary in selling his time for i private gain when he had already sold 1 it to the government was unwholcsome | for the entire country.
 l Lewis asked when the senator from | Kansas and the senator from Michigan l had become so subtIy inoculatcd with ! q comprehension of the dangers of pub | lie officials spending their vacations and addressing people on questions of vital interest to them. He said this 1 could not have been when a republican president was campaigning at the ex- | pense of the taxpayers.
 | "Where was the voice of protest when a postoffice official turned himself into a great political machine to elect an | other public official to the presidency 1 he inquired. 'Wherc was the voice 1 when Major Ray abandoned his post in the army to engage in political work in Chicago for presidential candidate i Why were the voices in the senate | silent then?. Was it because these mcr l were not democrats? Where was the voice when officials of the previous ad- ministrations were speculating in tho sock market and the tariff bill"