The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-14
South Caro1inian Pro-
 duces Statement.
TOUCHED FOR BY CHANDLER
President Sought Conference With
 Democratic Senator's.
The Chief Executive Named Specifically Knox, speoner and Foraker as Enemies of the RsiIrosa Rate
 BnI.

Washington, May l3.--Senator Till man who yesterday made a statement in the Senate covering the details of his and Senator Bailey's negotiations | through ex-Senator Chandler with Pre- ident Roosevelt regarding the rate bill tonight made public portion of s | written statement made to him by Mir. Chandler of his various conferences
 with the president on this subject. l The portion given out by Mr.. TilImsn
 is largely repetition of the first part
 of his statement ih the senate yester-
 day. It covers. however. that portion
 where Mir. Tillman had quoted Mir, Chan
 dler as saying that the president had
 stated that he had come to a complete
 disagreement with the Senatorial
 lawyers who were trying to defeat or
 in1ure the biii, naming Messrs. Knox.
 Spooner and Foraker. regarding which
 statement. Senator Lodge subsequently
 said he was authorized to say from the
 White House that it was an unqualified faisehood. The statement given out bs
 MT. Tillman follows;
 Senator Tfi1man said today thni
 Saturday, May 5. he Insisted on havinK from ex-Sneator Chandler written statement of various conferences by
 the latter in connection with the piar | of the President to control the raiIroaA
 rate legislation by alliance with ths Democrats of the Senate. and Mir
 Chandler gave him such & statement,
 made prior to Saturday. May f2, and
 signed by Mr. Chandler.
 | Tilimnn Holds . Card. l Mir. Tillman said that he would gfvs out portion of that statement re. | lating to the interview of Mir. Chandler with the President March 31, which | Ia 1uk ~e sf pute, but would retain the remaindef | for use in case any other parts of his l statement In the senate Saturday should be denied.''
 l The following is the portion Of MT
 chandler's statement given out by MT l Tillman:
 saturday afternoon. March si, 1906 | a friend of mine came into my offic, and told me of the white house confer lence of that day in which an understans ing as to limited court review has
 been reached with Senator Long ana
 others. and he told me that the Presi.
 dent wished to get Into communication with the Democrats and would shortly ask me to come and see him. White
 he was talking a messenger boy air.
 rived with letter to me from MT. Loeb, as follows:
 | The White House, 1 Washington. March S1. 1908
 My Dear Senator Chandler: The President requests me to say 1 that he would be glad to have you come to the White House to see him at s.so o'clock tonight. VIII you please let the bearer know whether you can comet Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President.''
 told the messenger would be At the time and place appointed, the President said to me that he wish ed. through me, to get into communi- | cation with MT. Tillman. Mr. Bailey. and other Democratic Senators. He stated his purpose slowly and care fully. and in exact substance his | statement was this:
 Statement of President. That he had reached the conclusion that the best plan for railroad rate | legislation was expressly to grant a ! court review. but distinctly to limit i two. points First. an inquiry whether | the Interstate Commerce Commission | had exceeded it's authority. and, sec
 ond. an inquiry whether the constitu- ! tional rights of the carrier had been | violated He said that he had been much l troubled by the advocacy of an unlini- | tied court review by some of the law yers of the Senate, naming Senators | Knox. Spooner and Foraker. as trying | to injure or defeat the bill by inge- nious constitutional arguments, but | that he had come to. complete dis | agreement with them. He made this
 point emphatic by repetition: said that l he would go thus far and no farther. | and that hsi decision would be uual- terable.
 He declared that he wished to as- certain whether there could be united action without injurious amendments and he named various Republican Sem ators who he thought were true friends of the bill. but said it would take nearly all the Democrats to carry the limitation and defeat all obnox- ious provisions.
 After the President had made his statement. replied that had reason to believe that most of the Democrats in the Senate would sustain his lim- itations of the courts powers. but that I was sure that Mir Bailey and Mr Tillman would insist upon coupling with the limitation some restriction upon the power of the courts to issue inJunctions against the orders of tho commission.
 Favored By Roosevelt.
 Before I had finished my statement on this point he interrupted me, say ing I need not explain further because he was warmly In favor of some such restriction.
 Senator Tillman's statement in the Senate yesterday was the principal topic of discussion in official circles to- day.
 The Senator had a number of callers at his apartments with whom he talk ed freely of the matter. among whom were Senator Bailey and ex-Senator Chandler. Mir. Chandler has been urged by some of his friends to make public statement over his own sigma ture regarding remarks in reference to Senators Spooner, Knox and For aker. He declined. however, to bo further brought into the controversy at this time. saying he would let the mat ter for the present rest on the state- ment made public by Mir. TilIman.
 Senator Lodge called at the White House this evening and took dinner with the President. Subsequently Sec retaries Root and Taft arrived at the NxyAAA. and fnfnaA fhM PN0afTArf