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Show ITSOfllPlS TO ffllTfiS Indiana Senator Denies Charges of Undue Friendship Friend-ship for Packers. . WASHINGTON, t. Senator Wat- son'H resolution, propos-in": Investigation of tlic alleged employment of Hoelali.il s and radicals ley the fd.-ral trade commission commis-sion Investigation of the packers, was ordered or-dered favorably reported today by the Henate expenditures ceaninitteo. The matter mat-ter probably will be brought to a vote tomorrow in I he hena te. .Senator Watson In the senate late today to-day made an emphatic denial of charges against him In the statement issued yesterday yes-terday by tho commission. The Indiana aenator also declared as false the statement state-ment of the commission yesterday that he was frleudlv to the packers and aroused ar-oused the commission of bringing up old and disproved changes. Chairman ilrouna of the senate agricultural agri-cultural loinnnl tee, which is Invest igat -itig the puckers, and Senator Townsend, Republican, or Michigan, came to Mr. Wats'm'a support, the former declaring "unfair" the ct It ieism of tho senator made in the eommlsslon'H statement. In examining ex-amining the packers' correspondence files, .Senator lronna raid nowhere, was it shown that. Mr. Watson had done "anything "any-thing favoring the packet In any way reflecting upon hini." In reply to the commission's reference to the lobbying charges, made In I HUH in the Mulhall ease, the Indiana senator said they were ten years old and had been made over and over again in state, and national political campaigns, each time with the result that he waa elected.. "The senate committee which luvcstl-KUted luvcstl-KUted tho chHl'ges," saiil Mr. Watson, "never even made a report, while the two house committee, reports exonerated exoner-ated me." licgardlnp: tiie commission's statement that correspondence between Wilson & Co. representatives and John C. Kvers-man Kvers-man showed "Interest" by Senator Wat-sou Wat-sou In packers' affairs, Mr. Watson said he voted. In committee and the senate, and spoke agaln.st the railroad rato legislation legis-lation asked bv the packers. Reiterating demands for Investigation of charges that Socialists and anarchists have been employed by the commission, Senator Watson continued: "N'o senator making such charges in good faith ought to bo hounded. I made no charges against tho commission, but against certain employees specifically mimed, so that all tho great body of faithful employees of tho commission would not be under suspicion. "Instead of trying to obscure the issue, the commission ought to assist in demonstrating dem-onstrating the truth or falsity of the charges that It has employed Socialists and anarchists. The true vindication of the commission is to try these charges. If true, no amount of mud-slinging will overcome them." |