The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-24

SAID ana related TO MIN as accurate.
ly as | could the statement made by
the president to me, and / convinced
him that the president had ceased to
hope for compromise with the SEN
ators named and the other advocates
of an unlimited court review. When
satisfied that this was the case he
readily consented to cooperate with
president, and said that he would see
Senator Bailey and report to me the
result, which he did, saying there
would be perfect accord upon the limi-
tation of the right of review If carried
forward in connection with limita-
ton of the right to issue exparte in
functions.
THE conferences thus begun were,
on the 18th, at my suggestion, trans
ferred to Attorney General Moody and
at once resulted in an understanding
that the effort could be made to limit
the right of court review as stated in
the Long amendment and in the paper
drawn up on April 16 by Mr. Moody
and later perfected by Messrs. Moody,
Tillman and Bailey Was it not nat
ural and essential that the president
should have satisfied me that he had
finally separated upon the question OF
the court review from the senators
who were the principal opponents OF
any limitation of that review which
they believed would be unconstitu-
tional and that | should have repeated
his statements to Mr.. Tillman? Is
it possible that went directly that
night to Senator Tillman at the Co.
lonial hotel and poured into his ears
deliberate and unqualified falsehood?
Consider next the statement which
the president says he thinks he made
instead of the one narrated by me.
Senator Foraker he says, was not
mentioned but all that was said
regard to them was that the president
did not agree with portion of Sen
ator Knoxs proposed amendment, but
that he thought that he had made a
strong argument for asserting affirma-
lively the jurisdiction or authority OF
the court, and as to Senator SpoOner,
that his name was only mentioned by
him to express cordial approval OF
| Senator Spooner's amendment.
"This SpOOner amendment was not
offered in the senate until May 10,
| but | learned that it had been in ex-
istence and shown to the president,
whether as early as March 81 does not
appear. But this is certain, that il
the president had on that night told
me that he cordially approved of it,
and | had so reported to Mr.. Tillman,
there would have ensued no confer
ence looking to cooperation; there
fore, the president as to that amend
ment had in mind conversation at
some other time, or with some other
person.
1T should also be borne in mind that
the report / made to MIR. Tillman OF
the presidents conversation is com
paratively harmless and inoffensive
Here it is He said that he had been
much troubled by the advocacy OF an
unlimited court review by some OF the
lawyers of the senate naming Sen
ators Knox, Spooner and Foraker as
trying to injure or defeat the bill by
ingenious constitutional arguments
but that he had come to a complete
disagreement with them.
what is there in the above words
| that is untrue or should give Of
Tense to the senators named? They
were the great constitutional lawyers
of the senate, making ingenious argu.
ments against any limitation of court
review, and they were troublesome
and likely TO be troublesome in an at.
tempt to carry the Long Moody limi.
tatiOn through the senate by the votes
of twenty-five or more democrats and
twenty or less republican senator's.
what harm was there in the presi