Show 1 j i BAILEY REPLIES f CHARGES Desperate and Outrageous Means Used to Blacken Tex Texas Texas as s Senators Sen tors Character Austin Tex Feb 21 Senator Bai Bal Bailey Baile Balley ley le his testimony today toda be before before before fore the tM legislative investigating corn com committee He said he regretted more than thun anything else the stain that has been b n placed upon the Texas legislature because of charges made that he had bad bought lila his election to the senate He HesaM said saM tho the charges charge were silly illy and out rag ta ous and those who knew the per personnel personnel sonnet of Q the th legislature also knew knewt thui tIia t they th are not Tot purchasable p Senator Bailey said uld one paper In the state printed a statement that he had hind bartenders in a north Texas town to perve his friends and he lie ridiculed the statement He merely mer l cited this one case to the committee h ho he said saM to show what desperate and outrageous o lite huis enemies nerd using uShii to blacken his 1115 character An Infamous moll Falsehood Bailey Bant was questioned about tile the tit federal court fee bill in Indian Ter Terrt rt rY band and the charge relative to it a downright infamous false falsehood hood lined from from beginning to end said fial Bai Baile Icy ley le There is not a word of truth in it Referring to the J 3 W V Phillips clerkship I in the federal government anI ard Id the charge Bailey had tad bor bar borrowed borrowed rowed towed money from Phillips 5 Bailey said tJ paid Phillips all an I ever iver er owed him himI I have a letter from his brother re received e luring the last few days heb hebI I would like mee to make a n part of the record Government Gov Mule M rc Contracts As s to t the th charge regarding the Ste Steger Steger I ger Labatt government mule con contract contract tract Bailey said That is a pure and unadulterated HP UP T I simply did for Steger I would have done for of mine i in answer to the charge that Bailey Balle had used ule his influence with the government to get it to accept mules from the contractors and had 1 n a fee fea for his services es iNot one cent did I 1 get for this serl ser service service vice to oa a friend said Bailey i Bailey Is Bitters Bitter j I Senator Bailey told the In Investigating tIng committee today toda hr would be glad to resign as senator If it he could ar arrange arrange range matters so that he could meet all an his hla enemies at one time and finish them th m there tre and nd then th n He Hc said he deserved 1 great praise for not having taken a shot g m In and n gone gon after his Ills political enemies I After denying that he ho had used under underhanded handed h methods meth ds to secure his eleCtion Senator Bailey admitted accepting a fee I of ot from a Mr Elliott of the Stand aM Oil company for rendering a written I opinion to the effect that the Standard Oil on company would not bo be b permitted to reenter Texas I Not i i Senator attorneys refused refuse refused to I allow Representative Cocke to x amine the t witness and were upheld by b bythe ithe the committee i r Members rs of the committee purpose P to t Insist t that an effort be made to secure the th evidence of f 31 ii Clay Pierce before the th i inquiry closes This proposition Is ex ox expected to a contest as the tite I I Of Senator Bailey fley are r opposed oj d it itU U ig if said aiL kL to the inquiry |