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The President Bested.
Senators Bailey md Tillman have
been serving "Hot Mollies" in the
railroad rate bill. Mr. Bailey accused
the president of variability and said
that instead of being a man of iron
he is a man of clay, aDd veiy common
nlav at that." Here is his closing
' remarks: I
"Mr. President, I lore a brave man.
I love a fighter and tbq president of
the Uoited States is both on ocoaeioD,
bat he can give np with as much
alacrity as any man who ever went to
i battle either civio or political. He
" fights furioasly when it is a physical
contest. I grant you, because that is
a question of courage as well as endurance,
but he seems to have no
k endurance in these political contests
here. Why, he was going to revise
the tariff and bis friends called him
off and then that great voice that
was filling the nation with a demand
for tariff revision suddenly sank into
the gentleness and weakness of a
whisper.
"Then he was going to have the
railroads regulated and it was announced
that congress would be con,
vened iu extraordinary session to deal
with it, but the great leaders assembled
with the president, prayed with
him a little while, and no (fell was
issued for ao extraordinary session
of congress. He waited until the
regular session and five months of
that has elapsed and still no legislating
And when we do fet a bill. I
God save the country from such a bill
as it will be.
"If the president had been this
heroic figure which the Benator from
> Montana would have us believe he
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was, you know what he would have
done. He would have summoned
these Republican leaders to a conference,
from the house and from the
senate and he would have said to
them: 'Gentlemen, I am not talking
? a f (Via
19 yOU UUW Its iiUO picgiuuuu wi ?uv i
Uoited States. I am talking to yon
/ as Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican.
I am talking to you as a Republican.
I want to tell you that I
have learned that unless you pass a
P good bill the president of the United
States intends to veto it-,' and they
would have passed a bill fulfilling in
some degree the laudable expecta^
tions of this people. If congress had
{ failed to do it and he had vetoed the
bill they passed and then convened
them in an extraordinary session to
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k pass a gooa one, ce woutu uavo writ- j
WL ten his name by the side with the
|W names af Jefferson and Jackson and
Lincoln and others among his illustrious
predecessors.
"Bat, Mr. President, let us have
^ no more talk in the 6enate aod talk
} in the country about this iron man.
He is clay, and very common clay at
that."
, Senator Tillman.
Senator Tillman came forth with
documentary evidence, making his
f first manuscript speech in the senate,
which affords the biggest sensation
of tbe present congress. He first
\ startled all ears og tbe floor and in 1
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the senate by announcing tbat for
more than a month he baa been io
frequent indirect communication with
the president through a mutual
friend, ez-Senator Chandler, aDd Attorney
General Moody. He then
read a history t>f certain secret transactions,
giving names, places and
dates, all of which convict the president
of double-dealing and of a complete
change of front on the rate bill.
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jlg was wrmeu uy jluhjjbu biju buu* i
mitted to Chandler, who approved it. I
It is expected to call forth a statement
from the president. Already,
through Senator Lodge, the White
Honee apologist in the senate, the
president ht? characterized one of
the statements imputed to Mr.
Ohandler c" a deliberate falsehood.
Ex Senator William E. Chandler of
New Hampshire has been long known
as a close friend of Mr. Roosevelt*
Mr. Chandler's hobby of late has
been the railroad rate legislation
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Bbruugljr utgcu yjj vuc picoiuvux **??
is one of those who has stubbornly
stood oat for court review only upon
the two questions of whether or not
the interstate commerce commission
has exceeded its authority and
whether or not it has infringed upon
rights guaranteed by the constitution;
in other words, the restricted
court review. This the president has
advocated, and this Senators Tillman
and Bailey and the Democrats generally
have advocated. Chandler is
a close friend of Tillman. Nearly
every night he can be found at the
hotel of Senator Tillman. In the
evening of late the two have been
taking long walks together. Roosevelt
could not communicate directly
with Tillman, so Chandler has been
the go-between. Mr. Chandler will
say nothing for publication, but if
the president persists in a denial of
even a small portion of the statement,
it is expected he will have
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enmothino inforaatincr fn rav an llA
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and Tillman are indisputably together
in the matter.
In the present ease it is evident
there is a lie out somewhere.
What Senator Chandler Says.
"At the time and place appointed
the president said to me that he
wished through me to get into communication
with Mr. Tillman, Mr
B*iley and other Democratic senators.
He stated his purpose slowly
and carefully and in exact substance
bis statement was this; that he had
reached the conclusion that'the beet
plan for railroad rate legislation was
to expressly grant a court review but
to distinctly limit it to two points;
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urci, au inquiry wuetuci 1110 iuieistate
commerce commission had ex*
ceeded its authority, and, second, an
icq liry whether the constitutional
rights cf the carrier had been violated.
He said that he had been much
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troubled by the advocacy of an unlimited
court review by some of the
lawvers of the senate?naming SeDa
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tors Kuox, SpooDer and Foiaker as
trying to it j are or defeat the bill by
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b J5 that he had come to a complete
disagreement with them. He made
thia point emphatic by repetition;
said that he would go thus far and
no further and this decision would be
unalterable. He said that he wiebed
to ascertain whether there could be
united action in the senate among the
friends of the bill so that it could be
surely passed without injurious
amendments and he named various
Republican senators whom he thought
were the friends of the bill, but said
that it would take nearly all of the
Democrats to carry the limitation
and defeat all obnoxious provisions.
"After the president had made his
statement I replied that I had reason
to believe that most of the Democrats
in the senate would sustain his limitation
of the courts' powers but that
I was sure that Mr. Bailey and Mr.
Tillman would insist upon coupling
with the limitation some restriction
upon the power of the courts to issue
injunctions against the orders of the
commission. Before I had finished
mv statement on this point the presi
V m. ?
dent interrupted me, Baying that I
need not explain further because he
was warmly in favor of some such restriction.
'
"That evening I saw Mr. Tillman
and told him what bad occurred."
"Mr. Chandler baa been urged by
some of bis friends to make public a
statement over bis own signature regarding
tbe denial of tbe accuracy of
tbe president's remarks in reference
to Senators Spooner, Knox and Foraker.
He declined, however, to be
further brought into tbe controversy
at this time, saying be would let the
Mvaoenf vacf nn fhfl
UittlllCl XUI tuc ^ICOCUV i cow VU vuv
statement made public by Mr. Tillman.
It was with Mr. Cnandler's
consent that the portion of his written
statement to Mr. Tillman of bis
conferences with the president, was
made public."
T3ie President's Statement.
Washington, May 34?The sensational
rate bill incident in the senate
Saturday, during which Mr. Tillman,
on the authority of Former Senator
Chandler, made statements regarding
the president's course in connection
with pending railroad rate legislation,
one of which statements was denied
by Mr. Lodge on behalf of the president,
had its sequel this evening,
when an official statement was issued
from the White House, giving an account
of the subject on the part of
the president aDd Attorney General
Moody. The statement comprised
two letters, one from the president to
Senator AllieoD, aod the other from
Attorney General Moody to the president,
both dated today.
The president says: 4Tq no case,
either in the case of Mr. Chandler or
any one else, was there the slightest
opportunity fur aDy honest misconception
of my attitude or any belief
that I pledged myself specifically to
one and ODly one amendment or set
of amendments or that I would not
be satisfied with any amendment
which preserved tfae essential features
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COLUMBIA, S. C? 1642, 164
of tbe Hepburn bill &s it came froc
the houfe:" The president says thai
as to many cf the amendments, in
eluding, the so-called Long, Overman
Bacon and Spooner ameudmentp, hi
said he should be entirely satisfied tc
have them in the bill and suggested
modifications as to other amend
meets, but that "as to none (of the
amendments) did I ever say either tc
Mr. Chandler or to any one else that
I should insist upon having them in
the bill as a condition of my approv
al." And that on the contrary he
(the president) was careful to state
that he was not tryiDg to dictate aDy
particular programme of action.
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The presideDfc says the statements
made to Senator Chandler were the
same in substance as those made tc
Mr. Allison and other senators ol
both parties. He said he was asked
to see Senator Chandler as the representative
of Mr. Tillman, in charge
of the bill, and that the conferences
Attorney General Moody had with
Senators Tillman and Bailey were
such as had been held with many
other senators to determine the
phraseology and discuss the effect oi
amendments proposed by them. The
president states tdat ne oecame convinced
that it was impossible foi
senators "with advantage" to use
him as an intermediary and suggested
to all to whom he spoke that the;
communicate with Senator Allison,
whose purposes and the president's
were "identical."
The president says that his owe
opinion that the Allison amendmenl
in no way changed the court review
aa r?rr?vtflod in Ihn nrioinal Henburr
bill is also the opinion of Attorney
General Moody and Secretaries Rooi
and Taft.
The attorney general's letter gives
an account, at tbe president's re
quest, of the conference which Mr
Moody had by the president's direc
tion with Senator Tillman and Baile]
regarding the court review feature
He says he advised the president tha
he should not at any stage becom<
finally committed beyond recail t<
any form of language in any part o
the biil and the president sffirmec
the wisdom of that course. He re
views the discussion of interiocutor
injunctions and concludes that then
was nothing in the "conversations
I between the senators and himsel
I rohinh hnnnd the president to an^
particular amendment."
The president does not refer to tbi
statement made by Senator Chandler
which he pronounced over the tele
phone false. He tries to make it ap
pear that Senators Tillman and Bailey
sought conference with him insteac
of bis seekiffc it with them.
Senator Caandler published tbii
morning the Utter he received fron
Mr. Loeb inviting bim to the firs
conference. It is also well knowi
that four or five other Democratic
senators had been called into confer
ence with tbe president previously
They alt remember what he said too
It has been expected if the presiden
persisted in his denial of SeDatoi
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i Chandler's statement, tbat be (the !
t president) had charged Senators |
- Kqox, Spooner and Foraker with j
, trjing to defeat or weaken the rate
3 bill by "ingenious arguments,'1 that
) other senators would rise up in the
I senate and give some testimony.
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1 tbe White House. Regard'Dg his
1 visits to the White House, Mr. Chandler
said that he did not go to the
j White House as an emissary of Mr
' TillmaD, but tbat he went there in
response to the president's invitation.
Io is very evident ibftt the presi
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torney General Moody confessed to,
1 that is, flabbergasted.
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