The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-17
CHANDLER REPLIES AGAIN.
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b. Nr Railey n statements made In Wash
irston dispatches 10 a Chicago newspaper
Ard y Sew York Newspaper. intimatins
'ha' while the so-called negotiations h--
f-eon tho President and Senators Bailey
and rtllman were heing conducted through
tho medium ~ ex-senator Chandler, Mr.
Tillman wrote 10 Mr.. Chandler that he mis-
trusted BaiIey's sincerity aud suspected
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wanted 10 insert a broad court review pro-
vision in the rate bill.
After the senate had been In session 70
an hour Senate Bailey. rising 10 q question
of personal privilege. had the clerk read
part Of the Washington despatch to the
Chicago newspaper which contained the
allegation that Mr.. Tillman was suspicious
of Mr.. Bailey. Speaking slowly. but with
considerable dramatic effect, in those deep
tones which make him such an effective and
impressive orator, Mr.. Bailey said:
i have taken no part in the question Of
veracity between the President and Mr..
Chandler, and I had not oven given any
public expression on the question OF good
faith. because I know nothing about either
question. I had never conferred with the
President directly nor with MIR. Chandler.
10 was therefore n matter Of great sur
prise to me when a Senator called my atten-
ton to the extract which have had read.
That correspondence, it was understood,
was sent by a correspondent who is very
close to the White HOUSE and 10 presumed
10 speak with some degree Of authority con-
corning transactions there. i do not know
as to the truth Of that and I do not charge
thai this statement was made with au-
thority. But l denounce the publication as
an unqualified. deliberate n malicious
lie. / denounoe that correspondent as a
unqualified. deliberate and malicious liar.
Idenounoe the man who inspired the state
ment as an unqualified. deliberate and
malicious liar. whoever he may be and
however high the Office he holds"
There was silence throughout the Senate
chamber when Mr.. Bailey sat down-a
silence that lasted for h seemed a long
time.
senator Tillman rose and suggested that
the entire article he read. To this Mr..
Failey responded that he did not feel at
liberty to have anything read from the
article that did not relate to himself, where
upon MIR. Tillman had the rest Of II read
and proceeded to make some comments
OF his own, concluding with the reading Of
tN-Sti dtoi iiN q ~ h'Ct
rcr eatirg his account OF his transactions
with the President ON the subject OF secur-
ing remocratio support for the rate bill.
This correspondence is undoubtedly
muck rake" said Mr.. Tillman in his free
ard easy way. He would not attempt to
saw irto whose house the handle went or
what hand held it,. There were eight dis
II, ct falsehoods in the article, eaid MIR.
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first to n denial that he had ever been sis-
ricious Of Senator Bailey, for whom he had
great Arbitration and esteem and With
whom he had always been on terms OF
corcial relation ship. Such newspaper
articles, Mr.. Tillman asserted, we're sent
broadcast over the country at the instance
Of the Republican machine to befuddle the
situation,
OF Attorney General Moody's statement
in his letter that he had not seen any hope
Of agreement in the Senat to on any rate
hill amendment not drawn by the Senators
themselves, Mr.. Tillman held that this was
an adroit method to give color to the Presi.
dents retreat behind the Allison amend
ment. In conclusion MIR. Tillman said
that in order that future historians might be
able to get at the truth as to who lied.
he world make another contribution, and
he thereurcn read the following letter from
ex-senator Chandler to himself:
WAsHINoroN y. c., May 10, 1909.
Ny DEAR MIR. TILLMAN: As the telephone
denial by President Roosevelt sent to the SEN
ate through Senator Lodge remains In the
Congressional Record Of May IL. II seems
TO mo that I should take some notice OF u
which | do now by reafirmlng the essential
truth of the statement l made to you and