Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-18
CHANDLER STANDS PAT.
Ex- Senator Declines the Role o
Fawninq Sycophant.

Fawnins Syeophant.
Senator Tillman on Wednesday re-
ceived from former Senator William
E. Chandler, a statement of his course
as intermediary in the negotiations be-
tween President Roosevelt and Sena-
tors Tillman and Bailey on the rail-
road rate bill.
The communication bears upon Sem
ator Lodges denial for the president
Of Mr. Chandler's statement, quoting
the president as saying he had lost
confidence in Senators Foraker, Spoon
er and Knox.
1t was offered in the senate by Sem
ator Tillman and will be printed In
the Congressional Record.
The statement says: "As the tele-
phonic denial by President Roosevelt
sent to the senate through Senator
Lodge remains in the Congressional
Record of May 18th 1t seems to me
that l should take some notice Of 1t,
which l do by now reaffirming the es-
sential truth Of the statement l made
to you and which you repeated in the
senate.
"As much as l regret that the hasty
action Of Senator Lodge and the pres
ident has forced an issue between the
president and myself, the extreme
language he used makes such an issue
unavoidable and cannot shrink from
or evade it although cannot use to-
ward the chief executive of the nation
language like his own.
Upon our respective statements
submit the controversy with confidence
I'm the judgment Of those who know
me.
For those who do not know me
there Is fortunately circumstantial eV-
idence of a higher order which shows
that the president could not have
omitted to make in substance the
statement which he denies. Nor could
he have than made the whole state
ment which he now substitutes. His
impulsiveness has led him into a Sc
rious error upon a point of no I'M
portance in itself, but only as affect
ing his attack upon me-"
Mr.. Chandler submitted a further
statement of the negotiations saying:
II did not go to the White House
as representative Of Senator Tillman,
but solely because the president sum-
moned me there by letter from Mr..
Loeb and waited for him to express
his object. 1t was Enthusiastically
stated to be a communication with Mr..
Tillman 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
the Court Review clause limiting the
inquiry to the question whether the
commission had exceeded its authority
or had violated the constitutional
rights of the carrier.
II knew and he knew that 1t was
impossible for him to open conferences
with Mr.. Tillman, unless he was fully
satisfied that the president had abso-
lutely given up all intention of COM
ing to an agreement with the senators
who had been making the contest for
an unlimited court review and in stat
ing his object he said he had parted
from them finally, naming Senators
Knox, Foraker and Spooner as the
senators who had made the arguments
I'm the senate to sustain that view, and
he used as nearly as / can recollect the
language given in my statement re-
peated by Mr.. Tillman."
In conclusion Mr.. Chandler said:
"On the whole perhaps l ought to
consider myself fortunate. If the old
imperialist days had been fully reviv-
ed at the White House. one whom
consider the best of friends. Senator
Lodge upon demand. would have cut
off my head and taken it to President
Roosevelt on a charger and | should
have spoken no more. Now at least
| have left to me the power OF speech.
But ! shall never use it again as a
missionary from President Roosevelt
to the Democratic party"
SAID WHAT He THoUGFT.-ln read
ing the presidents reference to the
meetings he had had "in a mass" with
the newspaper men. Mr. Roses eyes
mistook an "a" for an sc" in the word
mass" and his tongue made the presi-
dent Of the United States solemnly as
severate that he had had the newspa-
per men in "a mess" Roars of laugh
ter from floor and galleries greeted
this break" Mr.. Spooner's cherubic
countenance was especially apop!ectic
with irrepressible mirth. Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks pounded tremendously
with his gavel to restore order In the
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