The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-17
MIR. CHANDLER
 RUBS IT IN Tell. of the Roosevelt
 Tllman Scrap. SREsIDENT'SAcTloNs DIS CLOSED Sought Interview With the South
 Carolina Senator. The statement Is Made for the Purpose of offsettins the TeIephonic
 Denial from the white % House to MT.

Washington, May 16-Senator Till man today received from former Sena- tor William F. Chandler a statement Of his course as an Intermediary in ne- sotiations between President Roose- welt and Senators Tiliman and Bailey on the railroad rate bill. The commu- rication bears upon Senator Lodges denial for the President of Mir. Chand- ler's statement quoting the President as saying he had lost confidence in Senators Foraker, spooner and Knox IL was offered in the Senate by sena- tor Tillman and will be printed in the Congressional Record.
 The text of the statement follows
 MT. Dear Mr. Tillman: As the tele- phonic denial by President Roosevelt sent to the Senate through Senator Lodge remains in the Congressional Record of May 12, 1t seems to me that should take some notice of it. which do now by reaffirming the essential truth of the statement I made to you and which you repeated in the Senate. Much as regret that the hasty action Of Mr Lodge and the President has forced an issue between the President and myself. the extreme language he used makes sue hissue unavoidable, although cannot use toward the chief executive of the nation language like his own. Upon our respective state- ments I submit the controversy with confidence to the Judgment of those who know me.
 For those who don't know me there Is fortunately circumstantial evidence of a high order which shows that the President could not have omitted to make in substance the statement which he denies. Nor could he have made the whole statement which he now substitutes. His impulsiveness has led him into serious error upon a point of no importance in itself, but only as affecting his attack upon uae. give to you further statement as follows:
 sent for by President.
 r t'PrIor .to March Ts1 1 I had not seen the President for a long time. did not eo ito stlfeT White House ss rep of Senator Tillman. but solely because the President summon ed me there by the letter from Mir. Loeb, ana I waited for him to express his object. It was unmistakably stated to be communication with NIT. Tiliman who had the rate bill in charge, and other Democrats. of the Senate for the purpose of securing the adoption in the railrosd rate bill of court re- view clause limiting the inquiry to the question whether the commission had exceeded its authority or had violated the constitutional rights of the car- rier.
 'T knew and he knew that if was impossible for him to open conference es with Mir. Tillman, unless he was fully satisfied that the President had absolutely given up all intention of coming to an agreement with the Sem aotrs who had been making the con test for an unlimited court review, and in stating his object, he said that he had parted from them finally. naming Senators Knox. Foraker and Spooner as the Senators who had made the arguments in the Senate to sustain that view, and he used as nearly as I can recollect, the language given Tn my statement repeated by NIT. Tillman.
 The conversation included the un- lerstanding which he had that day reached with Senators Long and Ali son, the fact that not over one third of the Republican Senators could, be relied on for the limited court review and that 1t was vital that the support of nearly all the Democrats should be obtained.
 When an hour later I visited Mir. Tillman and told him my mission from the President, found him distrustful and suspicious He questioned me closely as to what the President had said ana I related to him as accurately as I could the statement made by the President to me and I convinced him that the President had ceased to hope for compromise with the Senators named and the other advocates of an unlimited court review. When satis- fled that this was the case he readily consented to co-operate with the Presi- dent and said that he would see Sena- tor Bailey and report to me the result, which he did. saying that there would be perfect accord on the limitation of the right of review If carried forward in connection with a limitation of the right to issue ex-parte injunctions.
 An Understanding Reached.
 The conferences thus begun were on the 18th at my suggestion transfer red to Attorney General Moody and at once resulted in an understanding that the effort could be made to limit the right of court review as stated in the Long amendment and in the paper drawn up on April Is, by MT. Moody and later perfected by Messers. Moody. Tillman and Bailey.
 was. it not natural and essential that the President should have satis- fed me that he had finally separted on the question of the court review from Inc Senators who were the principal onnonents of any limitation of that re- view which they believed would be and that l should have repeated his statements to MT Tillamn? Is 1t possible that I went directly that night to Senator Tillman at the Coloniel Hotel and poured into his ears a deliberate and unqualified falsehood?
 consider next, the statement which the President says he thinks he made instead of the one narrated by me Senator Foraker. he says. was not men tioned I am quite sure he is mistaken caoe+ors Knox and Spooner he says were mentioned but that all that was said about them was, as to Senator Knox that the President did not agree with a portion of his proposed amend mentb but that he thought he had made a. strong argument for asserting afnrmatively the Jurisdiction or au- thority of the court and as to Senator Spooner that his name was only men tioned by him to express a cordial ap- proval of Senator Spooner's amend ment.
 ''This Spooner amendment was nor offered in the Senate until May 10. but learn that it had been in existence ehauyo ta tha rrAatAApt uyh