Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-17

Washington. May IL Senator Till
man yesterday received from former
Senator William r. Chandler a statement
Of his course as an Intermediary in ne
Kotiations between President Roosevelt
and Senators Tillman and Bailey on the
Railroad Rates bill The communication
bears upon Senator Lodges denial for
the President. OF Mr. Chambers state
ment quoting the President as saying he
had lost confidence in Senators Foraker,
epooner and Knox. II was offered in the
Senate by Senator lillman and will be
printed in the Congressional Record The
text Of the statement follows:
My Dear Mr.. Iillman: "As the tele-
phonic denial by President Roosevelt
sent 10 the Senate through Senator
Lodge remains in the Congressional
Record Of May 18th, IT, seems 10 me that
I should take some notice of IL. which
do by now reafhrming the essential truth
Of the statement ] made 10 you and
which you repeated in the Senate Much
es j regret that the hasty action Of Senator
Lodge and the President has forced an
issue between the President and myself
the extreme language he used makes such
issue unavoidable and ! cannot shrink
from or evade IL. although ] cannot use
toward the Chief Executive of the nation
language like his own. Upon our
srepective statements | submit the con-
troversy, with confidence, to the ludg-
nent Of those who know me.
"For those who do not know me there
IA. fortunately. oircumstantial evidence
Of a high order which shows that the
President could not have omitted TO make
IN substance the statement which he de-
nies. Nor could he have then made the
whole statement which he now substi-
tutes His impulsiveness has led him
into serious error upon a point Of no im-
portance in itself but only as affecting
his attack upon me-
"Prior TO March 3ist I had not seen
the President for a long time | did not
20 10 the White House as a representative
of Senator Nllman, but solely because
the President summoned me there hy the
letter from Mr. Loeb, and / waited for
him TO express his object. IL was un-
mistakably stated to be a communication
with Mr.. Iillman, who had the rate bill
In charge. and other Democrats of the
Senate, for the purpose of securing the
adoption in the Railroad Rate bill of a
court review clause limiting the inquiry
10 the question whether the commission
had exceeded its authority or had violated
the constitutional rights of the carrier.
~ knew and he knew that IL was im-
possible for him to open conferences with
Mr., lillman, unless he was fully satisfied
that the President had absolutely given
up All intention Of coming TO an agree
mont with the Senators who had been
making the contest for an unlimited
court review. and in stating his object he
hN ItuI 4
naming Senators Knox, Foraker and
Spooner ~ the Senators who had made
the arguments in the Senate TO sustain
that view. and he used. as nearly as / can
recollect, the language given in my state
ment and repeated by MIR. Nllman
when. an hour later, / visited Mr.
Hllman and told him my mission from
the President, ! found him distrustlu
and suspicious. He questioned me CLOSELY
ne to what the President had said, and
related to him, as accurately as I could
the statement made by the President C
me, and ! convinced him that the presi
dent had ceased TO hope for comproms,
with the Senators named and the othe
advocates of an unlimited court review
When satisfied that this was the case, h,
readily consented TO cooperate with IN,
President and said that he would SCI
Senator Bailey and report to me the re
suit, which he did, saying there would bl
perfect accord upon the limitation of IN,
right Of review Il carried forward in con
nection with a limitation of the right I,
Issue ex-parte injunctions.
"Ihe conferences thus begun we're. OF
the 18th, at my suggestion, transferred
70 Attomey-General Moody and at ono,
resulted IN an understanding that thl
effort should be made 10 limit the rieh
Of court review as stated in the Ioni
amendment and in the paper drawn M
on April 10th by Mr.. Moody, and late
perfected by Messrs. Moody, Tillman AN,
Bailey. ls It possible that / went di
rectly that night 10 Senator Tillman a
the ColonislHotel and poured into his can
deliberate and unqualified falsehood
"On the whole perhaps, ought Z,
consider myself fortunate If the al,
imperialist days had been fully revive,
At the White House. one whom con
sidered the best of friends. Senate
Lodge. upon demand, would have cut ol
my head and taken It to President Roose
welt on charger and should have spokei
no more. Now, at least, ] have left \
me the power Of speech But I shal
never use II again as missionary fror
President Roosevelt TO the Democrat
party"