Arizona republican., 1906-05-14

Washington, D. C., May 13.-Senator Tnlman, who yesterday made state ment in the senate covering the details of his and Senator Bailey's negotia- tions through ex-Senator Chandler, with President Roosevelt regarding the rate bill. tonight made public a portion of a written statement made to him by MT. Chandler of his various confer ences with the president on their sub- ject. The portion given out by MT. Tillman is largely a repetition of the first part of his statement in the senate yesterday. It covers. however, that portion where MT. Tillman had quoted MT Chandler as saying that the presi- dent had stated that he had complete disagreement with the senatorial law yers, who were trying to defeat or in jure the bill, naming Messrs, Knox, Spooner and Foraker, regarding which statement Senator Lodge. he said. was authorized to say from the white house that it was an unqualified falsehood.
 On this subject, Chandler, referring to the president. said in his written statement: He said he had been much troubled by the advocacy of an unlimited court review by some of the lawyers of the senate-naming Messrs. y to injure or defeat the bill by ingeni- ous constitutional arguments. but that he had come to a complete disagree ment with them. He made this point emphatic by repetition"
 The statement given out by Mir Till man follows:
 Senator Tillman said that on Sat urday, May 5, he insisted on having from ex-Senator Chandler a written statement of the various conferences by the latter in connection with the plan of the president to control the railroad rate legislation by alliance with the democrats of the senate, and MT. Chandler gave him such state Inent, made prior to May 12. and signed by MT. Chandler. MT. Tillman said that he would give out a portion of that statement relative to the inter view of MT. Chandler with the presi- dent on March 31, which had become subject matter of dispute, but would retain the remainder for use in case any other parts of his statement in the senate on Saturday should be denied"
 The following is the portion of Mir Chandler's statement given out by MT. Tillman: "On Saturday afternoon, March 31, 1906, a friend of mine came into my office and told me of the white house conference of that day in which an understanding as to a limited court review had been reached with Senator Lodge and others. and he told me that the president wished to get into com rnunication with the democrats and would shortly ask me to come and see him. While he was talking, a messen- ger boy arrived with a letter to me from Secretary Loeb, as follows: My Dear Chandler: The president requests me to say that he would be glad to have you come to the white house to see him at S:30 tonight Will you please let the bearer know whether you can come
 'I told the messenger I would be there.
 At the time and place appointed said to me that he wished, through me, to get into communication with Mr. Tillman, MT. Bailey and other demo cratic senators. He stated his purpose slowly and carefully, and in exact sub stance his statement that he had reached the conclusion that the best plan for railroad rate legislation was to expressly grant a court review, but to distinctly limit it to two points: first, an inquiry whether the interstate