The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

of the constitution which was conceived
 in a democratic convention He would leave the answer to the people of the country. Y
 Senator Carter of Montana was recog
 nized He remarked with a smile which seemed to be understood, that if the Hon.
 William E, Chandler, formerly a senator from New Hampshire. should be given the floor of the Senate for the rest of the session. much light might be thrown on the subject.
 T should be delighted to hear from Senator Chandler" interJected Mir. Till man. And should also be glad to hear from the President and MT Moody.
 MT. Carter after saying he believed the President had been consistently in favor of the House bill, made rejonder to
 remark he ascribed to Senator Bailey,
 who had, he said. referred to him (Carter) as an insignificant member of the body.
 He would rather be humble citizen
 than to be afflicted with going through
 with the world wrapped in mantle Of egotsm and strutting through an atmos-
 phere of vanity considering all other men puny.'
 Senator Bailey at once replied. The sen ator from Montana had misquoted him, he
 said. He had not referred to MT. Carter as an humble or inconsplcuous member of
 the body, but that his services in behalf
 of this bill had been inconspicuous. The senator might just as well treat himself to the novel sensation of being accurate once in a while. said MT. Bailey Never, he continued, no matter what
 might be said on the floor of the Sen ate, should be allow himself to be pro voked to violent controversy
 There was slight stir in the Senate
 when Senator Deliver took the floor He
 said he would not speak if he had not
 been called as a witness by MT. Tillman To mi tn he could not forbear to say that Con
 Rress had spent nearly year magnifylng little questions and neglectng important matters of railroad legislation. He had endeavored to have action taken at the last Congress but without success He declared the pending bill had had much
 critieism from its friends as well as from it's enemies. He referred to the discussion of constitutional questions, saying that the Senate was the last refuge Of the technical lawyers. "The poor bill would
 have been entirely destroyed" he de-
 elared, If the lawyers had not devoted so much time to one another It was a
 perfect Kilkenny cat affair. These rival
 detective agencies of the law are about to be retired from business by the pros-
 pect of the passage of the bill.' He was glad that the President had taken hand and shown himself leader-"the most superb moral leadership the American
 people have had" MT Deliver did not believe the President had been misled. for he also is surrounded by constitu- tional lawyers-"1egal sharps. If you will
 He had no question, therefore. of the soundness of the new propositions and he is willing to accept them.
 Senator Clapp also defended the Pres-
 ident against aspersion
 Senator Long gave the geneses of the
 Long amendment. saying that 1t had been
 prepared in conference with Senator Ali son and that at first was In the ldn- guage of the Allison amendments. The amendment was he said. entirely satisfactory to him, because he did not
 consider it essentially different from his own amendment. "It is very evident that the grand old party is united" said MT. Tillman, and that ended the very interesting scene.
 Lodge Asks Question. During the adoption of the final Allison amendment some time after Senator Iill-
 man had completed his statement MT. Lodge came into the Senate chamber. He said he had not heard Mir. Tillman. but | that he read portions of his statement. He said he could hardly believe that part in which ex-SenatOr Chandler was quoted by Mr Tillman as saying that the President said he had come 10 d 1 complete disagreement with the senato-
 rial lawyers mentioning Senators Knox, spooner and Foraker Senator Lodge con tinuing. said he had gone to the official stenographer and obtained the exact sen tence used by Senator Tillman and had | called up the White House on the tele- phone that being the most rapid way
 of reaching the President
 'T read the sentence to the President" said Senator Lodge. "aUd he said in re- ply that the statement which l read to him attributed to him by MT. Chandler was delf,rrate and -unduaified fslse-