Arizona republican., 1906-05-17
THICKENING.
 OF THE PLOT
The Tribune Correspond
 ent Has a Word to Say
His Story EmanAted From the Rec ord and Not From the White House.

Chicago, May 16.-The Tribune in
 the morning will publish the following from Raymond" it's Washington cor
 respondent, in answer to the attack made upon his veracity by Senator
 Bailey of Texas:
 Washington, D. C., May 16.-When
 the Hon. Joseph w. Bailey, senator from Texas, struck at the president of
 the United States over my humble
 shoulders, for that is all he did on the
 floor of the senate today he appar- ently was unaware that there was doc
 umentary evidence in existence, both
 in the official Congressional Record
 and in the form of written memoran- dunn by former Senator William E. Chandler. absolutely proving that he
 was an object of suspicion to the real
 friends of the presidents railroad | policy
 This Is not to say that MT Bailey
 deserved the suspicion, but that his
 motives and his acts in the democratic conferences, in the democratic eau
 cuses, on the floor of the senate, and in
 the conference between Messrs. Till
 man and Moody, and through MT. ! Chandler with the president. gave rise i to the suspicion that he was not true
 to the principle of railroad rate legis-
 lation. This is clear from the record itself and cannot be successfully de- nied.
 "Mr- Bailey may be as innocent as a { babe unborn, and he says he is. but ! the suspicious did exist; they have ex ! isted for weeks: they have been talked
 of in the cloakrOoms of the senate. on
 the streets, at the White House and ! elsewhere. They have been mentioned , in many newspapers. and if they have not been justified MT. Bailey is unfor- | tunate and his character should be re- i lieved from aspersion.
 First of all, let me quote William E. | Chandler formerly senator from New
 Hampshire. now president of the Span
 ish Claims commission. He is the ! personal friend of Senator Tillman; he was the intermediary between Tillman and the president. Whichever of the two originated the negotiations. Mir.
 Chandler certainly conducted them. It
 was his evidence which has twice been 1 cited by MT. Tillman on the floor of the senate, and it is MT. Chandler who in i effect has given the lie direct to the president.
 l Tn the dispatch sent by me on Mon day to the Tribune which aroused such a tempest in the senate today and which provoked Senator Bailey to de- clare it to be a malicious lie and to in-
 sinuate it was directly inspired by the president himself, I stated facts on the authority of MT. Chandler himself. It was he who conveyed to the White House the intimation that Bailey was a traitor, and if the Texas senator has any one to blame. it must be Tillman's ! friend, William l.. Chandler. Tn the very outset of the negotia- tions he was conducting, Chandler prepared and left at the White House a written memorandum for the benefit , of the president. l have not the text | of that memorandum before me, but, i quoting from memory, it says: The railroad senators want the Bailey
 amendment, but Tillman is for the i presidents court review amendment and will block their game This is nearly a literal quotation. but no one could have the text probably without
 the permission of the president. l "The dispatch I sent to the Tribune
 was telegraphed on my own authority and without the knowledge or consent
 of the president, against whom Bailey l trained his batteries today, and not against me. I have not seen the presi- dent since the dispatch was written, 1 and l have not asked him for the text | OI IHS memorandum or William E. Chandler, because the text could at
 best add only a few words to the quo-
 tation have given. know I am cor
 rect in the statement that during the
 course of the negotiations William E. 1 Chandler, who since has accused the,
 president of falsehood, made an oral report, either to the president himself
 or to some one representing him, which was much more specific. During this talk, Chandler, in explaining the difi- culties in securing united action by the 1 democrats, stated in so many words that he and Tillman were suspicious of Bailey, believing he was in alliance with Aldrich and associating himself
 with the Standard Oil and railroad | crowd in the senate but that Tillman
 was watching his maneuvers and ex-
 pected to be able to prevent any evil effects.
 These were the suspicious to which alluded in the previous dispatch as
 having constantly existed and as hav- ing influenced the administration be- yond all doubt in dropping the nego- 1 tions with Tillman through Chandler and renewing the efforts to unite the republicans on a reasonable basis of lrar,V