Show CUCKOOS LOGA LOCATED TEO CLOSE TO THE EXECUTIVE MANSION BY BAilEY AND ANU TILLMAN W calm of t the e I Ieh eh ns l of oc the railroad rate bit W wan dl today by a Interruption by Senator Bailey who rose rosc roseto to a 3 question ot of personal p l to tomake tomake make reply to a charge made In the phI hf cage cago yesterday by a Washington correspondent to the effeCt that Mr lr Bal Bai Bailey Balley ley had bad been en ible for the failure of the agreement between the president and Senator Tillman Former Senator Chandler was given as author authority ty for the statement that Tillman Tiliman had bad been suspicious or of Bailey who it was also stated was really opposed to rate legislation awl and waS also in constant con confer conference fer ference nce with Senator AldrIch with the purpose of defeating the rate bill Denounced by Bailey Alter After this statement had been read Mr Bailey took the floor and said deliberate deliberately ate I 1 have bave taken no DO part In the question of veracity between the president and Mr Chandler and I had even given any public expression on the question of good faith because I knew nothing about either question I h had d never conferred with the president directly nor with Mr Chandler It waS therefore a matter of great reat sur e to me when a senator called my attention to the extract which I have had bad read That correspondence it was und understood was sent by bj a correspondent who is very close to the White House and andis is presumed to speak with some degree of authority concerning transactions J there I do not know as to the truth of that and I do not net carga that hIs state statement meat ment wa was made with auth authority rity But I denounce the publication as an deliberate and malicious lie I de dc nonnee tb thet t correspondent as an un nn q d deliberate and liar liarI I denounce the man who inspired the statement as an unQualIfied deliberate and aDd malicious liar w he may be and however high the office he holds Tillman Tiliman Adds a Few Words The statement was made In a deliberate monotone but it was none the less Im on that account It was received with absolute silence and the silence con continued continued for a few moments until Indeed Senator TilIman had taken the floor also on a question of personal privilege be because because cause the article quoted had s stated that he had been suspicious of Mr Bailey Baney He had read the parts of the correspondents letter which Mr Bailey lund had omitted and then proceeded with his statement say sayin in Ins This correspondence is undoubtedly a amuck amuck muck rake Into whose house the handle goes or what hand holds it I will not attempt at attempt tempt to say He said he counted eight distinct false falsehoods falsehoods hoods in the article but he desired to ad address address dress himself first to a denial that he had ever been suspicious of Senator Bal Bai Bailey ley Jey He declared his great esteem and admiration for the Texas senator and that their cordial relations had always i existed 1 When Senator 1 concluded i tor Baile Bailey again apin took th the floor and said that his attention had been called to an another another other article printed In the New York Tribune of toda He said It was of the some character e r as that printed b by the Chicago Tribune and that evidently they had been timed to bring them both to I Washington at the same time Pointing to the pre press s gallery he said saidI I 1 intend to put in the record upon the I statement t o of more than one reputable ne newspaper correspondent in that gallery I and as a rule they are as honorable as senators on this their authority I state that the two chief cuckoos of this administration are the correspondents of the New York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune Came From White House HAnd And therefore it seems to me conclusive shoe sive that this slander proceeded from the House I hope for the honor of my country that it does not proceed from the president himself But if he be a man of high sense or of honor he will see e to It that senators are not slandered by his s and the miserable wretch rEtch who communicated I Ito to th these se newspapers and who sought through them to communicate to the country a 8 slander on tee me which people might discuss rather than the issues that have been raised He Is unfit for his high office if the man who perpetrated that infamy does not PAY for It with his position position tion and It If the man continues to hold his Continued on Page 2 CUCKOOS LOCATED CLOSE CLOSE 1 TO EXECUTIVE lVE MANSION Continued from Page 1 1 office It Is tobe assum l h he I hta one ODe ha haS been e t with the Val of his chief S |