The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
|TIIIMAN VS.
 ROOSEVELT .PepperY Debate in the Senate. FALSEHO0D IS CHARGED President Denies Statement as to
 Foraker Et Al. Senator Bailey Says Roosevelt is Not Man of Iron. But Msn of
 Clay, and Poor
 Clay.

I : 1 Washington. May 12.--The Senate proceedings today were devoted exclu- | sively to the consideration of the rail- I road rate Lill and they included many interesting and some sensational feat ures.
 Of the latter class was statement by Senator Tillmah, covering the de- tails of his and Senator Bailey's neko- | tiations through ex-Senator Chandler with the president regarding the rate bill and Senator Lodges reply for the president to that statement
 Scarcely less exciting was an attack made upon the President by Senator Bailey and defense by Senator Car | ter.
 Tn his statement. MT. TiIlman said I that the President had referred slight ingly to Senators Knox. Foraker and | Spocner and in his answer Mir. Lodge said that the President had character | ized the statement as falsehood. Senator Bailey's criticism of the President was made in response to speech by MT. Carter lauding the chief executive. in high terms and contrasting his course with that of the Texas sena- tor and other Democrats who had, he said, done comparatively little to meet the demands of the people for railroad Legislation. Mir. Bailey accused the President of variability and said that in stead of being man of iron. he Is a man of clay. land very common clay"
 The actual accomplishments of the day consisted In the completion of the Allison amendment covering the ques- | tion of a review by the courts of the | or6ers of the Interstate Commerce l Commission. There were several of these provisions and all were accepted az presented or suggested by the Iowa l Senator showing an almost perfect agreement among Republican Senators. Indeed, one of the noteworthy fea- lures of the day was the practical | unanimity of the Republicans. They
 not only voted almost soiidly for the Allison amendments. but were inst as nearly united against opposing propo- | sitions. Senator La Follette continued ! to act with the Democrats.
 Tiilman Attacks President. During the consideration -cfthe rails I road rate bill in the Senate today. Sem ator Tiliman made an attacvk upon the l President. He referred to the Long amendment. saying that he did so with l the purpose of making an expIana- ton. He said that Senators probably would be surprised to know that he had been in conference with the President. He then. contrary to his usual prac- tice. read statement of his negotiat- ions regarding the bill as follows:
 Saturday, March 31. I was informed by.ex-Senator William F.. Chandler that President Roosevelt had sent to him a Dote asking him to call at the White House that evening; that he had obey ed the call and had been told by the President that he desired, through him, to get into communication with me as the Senator in charge of the railroad rate bill. and with Senator Bailey,
 line he tp of ate. for the purpose of ascertaining whether there could be such united act ion among teh friends in the Senate of the Hepburn bill, as would make a sure majority in his favor and against in- jected amendments . MT. Chandler said the President named various Republican Senators who he thought were true friends of the bill. but said that 1t might require all the Democrats to de- feat the obnoxious amendments.
 MT. Chandler said the President had stated that he had come to a complete disagreement with the Senatorial law yers, who were trying to injure or de- feat the bill by ingenious constitu- tional amendments. naming Senator Knox in addition to Senators Spooner and Foraker :that the President stat ed carefully and deliberately the basis upon which he thought there should be cooperation. viz. an amendment ex- pressly granting court review but limiting 1t to two points. G)-an in- quiry whether the commission had acted beyond its authority ultra wires, and (O,-whether it had violated the constitutional rights of the carrier.
 MT. Chandler stated that the Presi- dent repeated that he had reached final decision that the right of review should be thus limited; that thus far he would go. and no farther; that his decision would be unalterable."
 Proceeding. he said that Mir. Chand- fer had said that the President had as- sured hi mthat he would be in favor of a restriction against the issuance of ex-parte injunctions to meet the wishes of Senators rillman and Bailey
 Told MT. Chandler.
 After informing Mir. Bailey of the nurport of the Chandler interviey, Mir TiIlman said that the next day he had told Mir. Cahndler that in his and MT. Baileys opinion that tehre would be no dificulty In coming to an under standing on the basis proposed by the President.
 On the evening of Monday Mir. Chan dIed told me he had SO assured the President and asked him not to be dis turbed by the newspaper Items grow ing out of the talk about Senator Longs amendment published in the newspapers as one agreed upon at the White House conference Saturday"
 He then said that he and Mir. Chan dler had continued their conferences and April 5. the ex senator had gone to the White House to make a favorable report to the President April 8. Mir. Chandler told him that he had con- ferred with Senator Allison asking him to intervene in the conference then In nrogress and that the Iowa senator had agreed to do so. Later Mir. All son had seen the President. April 13, Mr. Chandler had advised that he (Mr Tillman), and Mir. Bailey see the At tornev General. Consequently they had met that official April IS. finding them selves in perfect accord with him ex- cent as to small difference in the mat ter of injunction
 There was absolute accord from the 6rst on the proposition that court re- view should be limited to inquiry whether the commission had exceeded ,ts authority or violated the carriers constitutional rights
 Mir Moody had then agreed to supply the senators with a memorandum of his views and had done so and we have the original of it." said MT. Till man.