Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-16

nounced as being a deliberate and
unqualified falsehood, and as / had
the misfortune, / may term 10, Of
bringing about the situation which
caused this denunciation to be made,
/ feel under solemn obligations, very
sacred obligations, TO the man whose
good name was thus attacked, and
who is my trusted friend, and alsu an
obligation to myself TO sustain,
although / do not know it is neces-
sary, my own good faith in reading
the statement l did, to give to the
Senate, in order that it may 60 into
the Record, the authoritative state
ment signed and sent TO me 10y Mr..
Chandler. / shall not give it all;
shall only give that part Of it which
relates TO the particular subject have
just mentioned. "
Senator Tillman then read a portion
OF the statement Of Mr.. Chandler,
which he gave TO the press on Sunday
evening, and said:
81 do not deem it necessary TO read
the rest of this letter at the present
time. While / am dealing with this
subject l noted this morning and
Senators have read in the papers, n
letter addressed to the senior Senator
from Iowa by the President, in which
this subject Is presented from his
point of view.
had expected that possibly some-
thing would be said about the ques-
tion Of veracity between the President
and Mr.. Chandler. But IL nothing is
said ] have nothing more to do with
u, other than TO put the record before
the country, or rather TO put in endur-
ing form Mr.. Chandler's own state
ment TO me.
| had also anticipated that pos
sibly as the future historian would
have some trouble in digging out of
the newspapers the facts in the case
the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Allison)
OF some other friend Of the President
would put into the Record the letter
from the White House. But that has
not been done and feel myself called
upon TO make some little comment on
that letter.
There are only two points in the
Presidents letter which deem worthy
OF notice His attempted explanation
- ingenious but not ingenious. He
for second time calls in question the
| integrity of purpose and utterance of
Mr.. Chandler by declaring: He was
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representing Mr.. Tillman, who was
in charge of the bill. He stated TO me
the views Of Mr.. Tillman with seem
ing authority.
"Mr. Chandler has declared most
positively in written statement that
the President sent for him for the
purpose of getting into communication
with Senator Bailey and myself, and
he has produced the letter of Mr.. Loeb
to prove it.
'l now declare most emphatically
chat to no human being have / ever
/ given authority or even expressed a
wish 20 have any conference with
Theodore Roosevelt in regard TO the
bill now under consideration. On the
contrary | have expressed the opinion
in more than one published interview
that he had nothing to do with it and
that it was the business of the Senate,
and while / did at his request enter
into negotiations with the Attorney.
General it is we'll known to every
Senator on this floor what my attitude
and feelings have been, and it is most
remarkable, while the President sent
for Democrat after Democrat to confer
with him about this measure, that hs
should undertake under the circum.
stances to assert that l sent an agent
20 him 10 begin negotiations. The
statement is absurd on its face.
'Ihe other point TO which shall
refer Is the cavalier way in which Mr..
Moody discusses the idea Of the Presi.
dent not being bound. While contra.
dieting in no instance, however slig BIT,
my statement of what occurred. ths
Attorney General seems TO think that
the code OF honor among gentlemen Il
not binding upon the Executive anc
his cabinet.
The President asked him to 40,
Mr.. Bailey and myself We met bv an
pointment made by Senator Chandle,
and talked over the vital question
He wrote and sent TO Mr.. Bailey hi
understanding of our views and whel
we met subsequently we reached al
absolute agreement both as TO tn
form and the substance Of a propose,
amendment TO which he said th
President would assent and help re
votes for.
"Of course, the President was no
bound not TO change, but he wa
bound under such circumstances {,
give notice and this was not done
Even the Attorney General himsel
was not notified. The charge | mad
and still make is that the President i
guilty Of bad faith and that the rat
bill, which viii be when enacted int
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