The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-15
White House Issues Statement Giving Account
of Subject Matter on Part OF the Prescent
TlLLMAN Is TO MAKE A REPLY
President States That in Case of Chandler There
Was Not Slightest Chance OF Mise nstruc-
tion of His Attitude the Railroad
Rate Bill Amendment

WISHING on, u ~ MAY II Ht
sensational rate bill incident in the
senate, Saturday, during which Till
man, on the authority of Former Sen
ator Chandler made statement re-
garding the presidents course in con
nectioa with the pending railroad rate
legislation. some of which statements
we're denied by Lodge on behalf Of the
president, had is sequel this evening,
when an off cial statement was issued
By the While House giving an ac-
count Ct The subject on the part Of the
president and Attorney General Moody.
The statement compriaed two let.
tcrs. one from the presiden to senator
Allsen and the other from Attorney
Moody 70 the president both dated TO-
day The president says
"ln no case, either in the case Of
Chandler or any one else was there
the slightest opportunity for any hon
est rnlsconstruction Of my attitude or
any bslief that pledged myself, spe-
officially to one and only one amend
ment or set OF amendments or that /
would not be satisfied with any amend
ment which preserved the essential
features Of the Hepburn bill as it came
from the house."
The president SAYS:
"rnat is 10 many of the amend.
mcnts. including the so.caIled Long,
overman. Bacon and spooner amend
ments he had said he should be entire.
Iy satisfied to have them in the bill,
and suggested modifeations as 70 9th
er amendments but that as to none (of
the amendments) did ! say either TO
Chandler or I? anyone else that
should insist upon having them in the
bin as a condition of my approval and
that on the contrary he (the presidenO
was careful to state he was not trying
TO dictate any particular program Of
ac' on"
The pre- ident says the statements
made to Gambler were the same made
in substance to Allison and ether sen
ators Of both parties He says he was
asked to see Chadler as the represen.
tative of Tillman in charge of the bill
ana that The conferences Attorney
General Moody bad with Tillman and
Bailey were euch as had been held
with MANY other senators TO deter
mine the phraseolcgy and discuss the
effect of the amendment proposed by
htme
The president states he became con.
vinced 1t was impossible for the sena-
tors with advantage" 10 use him az
an intermediary AMI suggested TO an
to whom he spoke that they communi-
cate with Allison whose purposes and
the presidents were Identical
The president says bis own opinion |
that the Allison amendment i'm no
way changed the court review a. pro .
vided in the original Hepburn bin as
was also the opinion of Attorney Gen. I
eral Mo-dy and Secretaries Root and .
Taf !"
The attorney generals letter gives
an account at the presidents request I
of the conferences. which Moody had
at the presidents direction with Sen
ator Tlllman and Bailey regarding the
cour. review feature. He says Pc
advised the pre-ident that he should
not az auv stage become finally com
mittee beyond recall TO any fern OF
language in any part Of the bin and 4
the president alfred the wisdom of
that course. He revieys he discussion
of interlocutory injuaciions and con
cludes that there was nothing in the {
conversations" between the senator I
and himself which bccnd the president . )
to any par icular amendment
Senator Tllman talked freely 10
night with a number of his callers {
about the statement issued by Presi Z
dnet Roosevelt He expressed his \
however not TO be quoted Il
pointing ont that whatever ha wishes
to say on the subject of the statement Z
he would saw on the floor Of the sen 7
a q He expects the question VIII be ,
brought TO the front in some way in -
the senate tomorrow.
He di- cussed the presidents state
ment t-night with Former Senate
Chandler and he urged Chandler % .V- q
sue a statement giving the full history
Df the whole matter. Tillman wanted 7
the fact togo into the newspapers that
be did not in any way initiate neg0- q
.iations with The president regarding
democratic support for the railroad !
rate bill and that he asked Chandler I
10 90 to The White House. y
In his letter to the president. Attor- Z
hey General MOODY says Of The confer g
nee between himEeif and Senator'S
riuman and Bailey: The conference
vas arranged by Chandler and Or c
-aFred On April 18th I vas fpll q