Show SENATOR BAILEY THE TRUTH OF CHARGES said he made on pacos lands did not receive land as a fee austin texas feb 39 seph W bailey testifying today tier tore the legislative investigating committee denied the truth of the charges preferred against him by representative cocka regarding his alleged relations with the waters pierce oil company mr bailey reviewed his was history until his election to the united states senate in 1901 he said he met david R france of missouri in 1889 when roger mills was a candidate for the of the house he cultivated the acquaintance of gov francis and afe associates socia tes members of the missouri delegation hoping thereby to advance mr mills interests he had formed a close friendship or gov francis and never passed through st LOUIS without stopping to see him in reply to the charge that ha palley had been in a deal with a brother of goy francis and other person fc joa sibley among them in the gabbs ranch transaction senator babey said that he had known mr sibley in 1892 and that he was then as he Is now a delightful clean and honorable man mr bailey said he had no intention at first of purchasing the ranch but that mr gabbs had told him about the land and said he wanted to sell each to gov bob taylor faten ceasee senator charles A culberson of texas and to himself bailey and keep a quarter he told mr gabbs that only senator culberson Cul borson was nan dally able to purchase the land but at mr gabba solicitation he went to look at the land and waa greatly pleased with it he later had several conversations with gov francis about going into the deal for its purchase learned about mr francis lands in texas and told him that he be able to trim this land for hanz an the deal senator bailey said that he secured an option on the property which he later closed with the understanding that the deal would biot be consummated until after the campaign for senator had closed later gov francis transferred his pecos county lands to mr gibbs and the gibbs property was transferred to gov francis who had furnished the greater part of the purchase price by putting in these lands there was due to mi gibbs above his mortgages and the pecos county lands about 5 of which he obtained from the her river national bonk of and the remainder was paid to mr gibbs out of the sale of the crops there was also a debt of on the cattle and later he negotiated with the help of gov francis a loan of 1 from a st louis bank with which he paid debts of and owed to texas banks mr bailey explained that after he had been charged ith receiving the pecos county lands a a fee from tha waters alerce oil company he had determined to relieve gov francis of any further embarrassments embarrass ments and par gibbs to deed the land hack to mr bailey aalde that ho made about on the dealand would haqq made more could he have held the land but not having the money and the political differences arising he preferred to sell gov arancio Fran cio he added never discussed any legislation with him or sought his aid for any measure except the worlds fair appropriation he bad never known of any legislation before congress in which francis was interested directly or indirectly except aa a good citizen or democrat nor was he connected with or interested in any texas legislation he said francis had never mentioned H 0 pierce except through the letter of introduction francis and a man named cobbs said mr bailey had asked his support for the worlds fair appropriation and be told them they were wasting breath as I 1 was unalterably opposed to appropriating public money or such purposes he said he thought he had been when the proposition for the appropriation came up when the maUor iVAa considered a second alnio he wattle the senate and lie had opposed and almost defeated it offending doilia friends who thought he would support it because a provision relative to shipment ot cattle from wow the alln had been made a part of the hill |