The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13
ga Toilette Votes with Dem.
ocrats in Efforts to
Load Amendment.
Bill Now More Radical than
President Ever
Asked For.
Hy w. w. Jermane.

adopted by Iue 'Seudto eoNe'J /.
The days debate followed the same
general lines of the debate of Friday
attack on the president by the demo
Gratis for an alleged change Of position
and the Endorsement of a broad court
review, and defense of him by the
not changed front.
A novel and highly interesting fea-
ture of the days discussion was the
explanation by Mr.. Tillman Of the part
the president had played in trying to
line up the democratic senators in sup
port of the bill, at time when it
seemed to everybody that democratic
votes would be needed.
Mr.. Tillman insisted that there were
about twenty-six votes which he and
Mr.. Bailey could control for the Long
amendment, which was at that time be-.
ing considered by the president, and
that this number, added to about TWEEN
ty-two votes on the republican side of
the chamber, would have been enough
to get the legislation. 49,. ..--....
Charges Broken Faith. "a
The point of Mr.. Tillman'sa state
ment was the charge that the president,
who in the Long amendment had stood
for limited court review, later aband-
oned that position and accepted the
broad review which Mr.. Tillman said
was provided by the Allison amend
ment. Coupled with this was an init
nation that there had been bad faith
on the president $ part, and discourtesy
to the democrats, who, to man, had
agreed to come to the president IS re-
lief Notice of the presidents change
of front, he said, did not come to the
democrats thru former Senator Chand
Ter, the original intermediary, but from
. the, newspapers.
Later in the session today, Mr.
Lodge, who had previously telephoned
the president, to inquire about the Till
man statement, said to the senate that
he was authorized to announce that thai
statement was untrue insofar as il
charged that the president had named
Senators Knox, Foraker and Spoone1
as being 1eagued together in an effor
to- defeat rate legislation. The presi
dent informed Mr.. Lodge that he hae
no such talk with Mr.. Chandler.
None Was Criticized. .
Mr.. Foraker's name was not men
toned by the president in Mr.. Chand
ler's presence Mr.. Spooner's name wa
mentioned in connection with state
ment by the president of his cordia
support of the Spooner impoundins
amendment, while as to Mr.. Knox tn
president had said to Mr.. Chandler tina
while he did not agree with the argu
ments of that gentleman, he conceded
that. they had been forcefully pre-
sented. =
Mr.. Lodge did not talk with tn
president about the Tillman statemen
as whole, and the substantial truth o
that statement is not questioned.
has been the habit of the president du1
ing the entire winter to confer wit
members Of the senate, democrats 9
we'll as republicans, on the rate que
ton, and it is true that at the tim
when it seemed likely that the conse
vatives Of the senate, under the A
drich leadership, would be able to d
feat legislation, the president did e
into touch with Mr.. Tillman and otht
democratic senators with a view
bringing them over to the support {
the house bill. which then was bei1
supported, on the republican side of tt
chamber, by small company led t
such men as Dolliver, Nelson and Clap
This was late in March and the ear
part of April, the time fixed by M
Tillman as marking his conferenc
with Mr.. Chandler and Attorney &c
eral Moody.
- Denis Lose Thunder.
s::s!Fhfe zwormwood and gall of the stu
tien, so-sfar as the democrats is co
cerned, lies in the fact that the pre-.
dent having thus prepared with dem
cratic aid, to secure the passage Of II
ratesssibin thru the senate, without
gard 10 the conservative members
that body later got together with t