Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-17
White HOUSE
Is BLAMED.
Senator TiIIman and Bailey Are
Stung Hard and Cry Out Liar
. in Their Own Defense.

WASHINGTON, May H.-Senators
Bailey and Tiilman caused a sensation
in the senate by rising to a question OF
personal privilege and denouncing as q
malicious liar the writer Of an article
which appeared In the Chicago Tribune
and also in a New York paper, which
held Mr.. Bailey responsible for the
failure of the agreement between the
president and Mr.. Tillman on the rail
road rate bill and charged him with
being frequently in conference with
Senator Aldrich for the purpose of de-
feating the bill.
Mr.. Bailey limited that the article was
inspired in the White House and de-
nounced the a who inspired 1t as an
unqualified, deliberate and malicious
liar.
Pointing to the press gallery, Senator
Bailey said:
Il intend to put in the Record upon
the statement of more than n repu-
table newspaper correspondent In that
gallery, and, as a rule, they are as
honorable as senators on this floor, on
their authority l state that the two
chief cuckoos of this administration
are the correspondents Of the New
| York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune.
"And therefore it seems to me con-
elusive that this SANDER proceeds from
the White House. l hope, for the hon
or of my country, that it does not pro
ceed from the president himself.
but If he be a nan of high sense of
honor he will see to it that senators
are not slandered by his subordinates,
and the miserable wretch who COM
municated to these newspapers and
who sought through them to commune
cate to the country a SANDER on me
which people might discuss, rather than
these issues that have been raised, he
is unfit for his high office, and the man
who perpetrated that infamy will pay
for 1t with his position. And if the
man continues to hold his Office it is to
be assumed that what he has done has
been with the approval of his chief"
When Mr.. Bailey had finished MI.
Tillman arose and also denounced the
article in the two papers. Then he
read a letter from Mr.. Chandler, in
which the writer said the presidents
impulsiveness has led him into a seri-
GUS error, adding Though 1 cannot use
to the chief executive of the nation
language like his own"
In a deliberate monotone that was
none the less impressive and while alb
solute silence reigned Mr.. Bailey said
as he arose to address the senate in re-
gard to the article:
II denounce the publication Is an
unqualified, deliberate and malicious
lie. l denounce that correspondent
as an unqualified, deliberate and ma
inspired the statement as an unquali-
fed, deliberate and malicious liar, who
ever he may be and however high the
Office he holds"
Mr.. Tillman then arose. He address,
ed himself to two points, prefacing his
statement by saying the correspondent
was evidently a muck raker." He
said he had counted eight distinct false
hoods with reference to himself. In
most emphatic language he declared
that never for one instant was there in
his mind the slightest doubt of the sin
certify and good faith Of the senator
from Texas. In strong terms he in
dorsed the senator from Texas, with
whom he had been in perfect accord
throughout.
I'm order" he said in conclusion,
"that we may know who is lying In
this recent controversy l submit the
following letter from Mr.. Chandler"
He then read the letter, the most in
teresting feature of which Is contained
in the'closing paragraph:
ION the whole perhaps l ought to
consider myself fortunate, If the old
imperialist days had been fully re-
vived at the White House, n whom
1 considered the best of friends, SEN
ator Lodge, upon demand, would have
cut off my head and taken it to Presi-
dent Roosevelt on a charger, and |
should have spoken 10 more. Now at
least | have left to me the power of
speech, but l shall never use 1t again
as a missionary from President Roose-
welt to the Democratic party"
After several other efforts to secure
the adoption of substitutes the Cuiber-
son amendment to the rate bill was
agreed TOGO to IS.
lF -
Protests Roosevelt Message.
NEW YORK. May 17.-The STANDARD
Oil company has issued to its share
holders a statement in reply to the spe
cial message recently sent to congress
by President Roosevelt and the .reporl
on the country's oil industry by Com
misSioner Garfield of the bureau Of