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Show VIGOROUSLY ASSAILED RAINEY i Burton Calls on the Illinois Ill-inois Senator to Prove Accusations. Washington, Feb. 22. Mr. Burton. Ohio, elicited Republican applause when he roBo to reply to Mr. Ralney. He said that Mr. Ralnoy had abandoned aban-doned for the most part his accusations accusa-tions made In prior speeches "ana goes afield and brings in a new addition to the nc-cusation nc-cusation relating for .the most part to a tragedy now pending between Tanama and the United States and Involving Colombia as well." He declared that it would have been more edifying to the house and more instructive to the country tl Mr. Ralney had proven the accusations he made. "It is impossible," he exclaimed, "that there should be such childlike, Fjjch earelepe abandonment of the rights of this country as to lead to the results which the gentlemen have portrayed." por-trayed." As regards the timber contract, ho bald that was an old scandal. Mr. Burton then vigorously assailed Mr. Ralney. "I object," he said, with vehemence, "to conjuring up wrongs and buttressing them with slander and falsehoods, when there are real wrongB to right." Mr. Ralnoy at once was on his feet and demanded that the words be taken tak-en down, while Mr. Bartlett, Georgia, v anted tho Ohio member ordered to take his seat Mr. Burton remarked that if what he had said was going to lead to a scene he would withdraw his words, "but," he added, "they were uttered under very great provocation." Mr. Ralney at first declined to accept ac-cept the withdrawal, but later did so Continuing, Mr. Burton declared that full Justice should be given to the men engaged In the work oj building the canal. "We should uphold up-hold their hands," he exclaimed, "and protect them against false accusations." accusa-tions." Men, he said, who would attack those engaged In that work had found It necessary to go down into the swamp and polluted pools of Panama itself. Mr. Burton declared that Mr. Ralney should retract his remarks against President-elect Taft. Mr. Ralney s remarks, Mr. Burton said, had been on the level of the scurvy politician. There were far weightier matters that the house could consider. Mr. Ralney, Mr. Burton declared, had taken up the cudgels of a disappointed side and taken up their material without analyzing it, Mr. Burton paid a tribute to Mr. Cromwell, President Obaldla and others oth-ers mentioned by Mr. Ralney. He spoke of his senatorial contest with C. P. Taft and said he never heard word against Mr. Taft that reflected on his honesty as a man, or connected with him any schemes of exploitation. "Are we not stepping below the level on i which we stand?" he inquired, "when we bring In private citizen here and openly accuse them of that which brings contumely and corruption?" corrup-tion?" He challenged Mr. Ralney to make his statement out in the open. "Will ho," he asked, "when he is outside the protection afforded by the constitution consti-tution and rules of this house, will he out in the open, make the statements state-ments that he has been making here on the floor of this house? Will he rr.ake so free with reputations aa he has in addressing us?" The Democrats applauded when Mr. Burton said it was to the credit cf the Democratic national committee commit-tee that it had refused to have anything any-thing to do with the alleged scandals. scan-dals. "But what consolation is there," he asked, "for the accusation now made?" Mr. Burton provoked laughter oy saying that Mr. Ralney felt honored at having been put in tho Ananias club. "The Ananias club," he said, "has never taken out articles of incorporation. in-corporation. It does not hold annual banquets. Its members wear no buttons. but-tons. Its members don't buy any Lusts to put In public halls. A census be investigated "and their truth or inaccuracy in-accuracy once for all established." or tne memoersnip wouia db extensively exten-sively different, but I am afraid the number of eliglbles would be extremely extreme-ly large." Mr. Ralney, he said, was para-mountly para-mountly fitted for the presidency ot the club. "With a carelessness that ill befits a member of this house," Mr. Burton Bur-ton said, "Mr. Ralney had listened to statements of detraction against men whose reputation should be above reproach." re-proach." "Let us have a fair and square and direct statement and proof of that which he has already said," Mr. Burton Bur-ton pleaded. "Then when they are all proved perhaps the house and tho country will listen to what else he has to say. But so long as the substantial sub-stantial averments he has made have been proved groundless, it is not ror ur to turn aside from our ordinary business to pay attention to further accusations." Those that were made, he said, bad fallen to the ground trom tne weight of their own Improbability, absurdity and incorrectness. While not sharing the opinion ot Mr. Burton "as to the enormity ot Mr! Rainey's action in seeking protection protec-tion under the houeo rules." Mr. Cock-ran, Cock-ran, New York, declared that it would be an intolerable situation for a citizen citi-zen of the United States, who had not been convicted of a crime, to be as-nailed as-nailed on the floor of the house and nc .method provided by uhlch the tiuth could be ascertained. The rljjbt cf character, he asserted, stood next to the right of life "There should be," he said, "some way by which persons assailed should , have the right to be heard on the floor j of the house," He closed by demanding demand-ing that Mr. -Rainey's charges should |