The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Shows Presidents Surrendering
 to AIdrich Faction
THAT DINNER INCIDENT
The Senator Explains How the Presi- dent Secured a Conference By Proxy With South Caro-
 inian After the Slight
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington. May 12.-(Special )--Senator T'lllnlan of South Carolina sprung a sur prise upon the Senate today. and if any further proof were lacking showed con clusively the details of the Presidents surrender on the rate bill to the Aldrich faction. When Senator Tillman first came senator from New Hampshire. Tillman. the Yankee-hater, and Chandler the Yan- kee, struck up an acquaintance which ripened into the closest friendship. They were almost inseparabe and when the question of politics was not involved they never disagreed. Usually between politics and friendship they managed to vote to- gether; at any rate they were never at variance as much as the record votes In serate would show. Frequently on the floor of the Senate they prodded each other numerically. but the Senate finally found them out, and the retorts of the New Hampshire senator and those of the South Carolinon were set down for noth- ing outside the stereotyped record Two months ago when the railroad senators turned over to Senator Tillman the man agement of the rate bill with the inten- tion of making 1t odlous through demo- cratic support. the President, who was then in favor of railroad legislation which counted. found himself unable to communicate with the leader of the legis- lation which he had recommended to be piled upon the statute books. Four years ago the President had invited the South Carollnian 10 attend dinner at the White House. The afternoon proceeding the evening of the dinner Senator TiIman became involved in personal encounter upon the floor of the Senate with his col league. Senator McLaurin. The President who had looked upon McLaurin as pos- sible agent in behalf of a southern re- publican. or a Roosevelt party for Sen ator Hanna. was then alive, immediately sided with McLaurin, and sent word 10 Senator Tillman revokng the dinner in- yitation.
 Senator Tillman never forgot the slight placed upon him, and never again visited the White House. In casting around for some means of communicating with Sen ator Tillman, the name of Senator Chan dler. now on the Spanish claims commis- sion was suggested to the President
 Deals Through Friend.
 He grasped it eagerly and q few days after Commissioner Chandler mentioned the matter to Senator Tillman, who put the necessity for railroad legislation over his personal feelings and consented to deal with the President through his per sonal friend. MT. Chandler. Later the attorney general was brought into the conference and that official drew up amendments as basis of agreement which had the approval of Senator Till man, as well as the President and his attorney general These amendments to the Hepburn bill as passed by the House provided for the narrow court review Attorney General Moody wrote them him self and in the Senate today Senator Tillman exhibited them.
 Senator Bailey of Texas. who had been consulted by Senator Tillman upon every step of the proceeding, told the Senate of the negotiations. finally narrating the interview between him. Senator Tlllman. the former senator and the attorney general the night after the President had called to the White House the news paper correspondents upon whom he could depend to defend his compromise with the railroad senators. The attorney gem eral expressed ignorance or the compro- mise, he was just hurriedly preparing to leave Washington on a short trip and the intelligence brought him was the in- formation he had heard of the Presidents s intentions to repudiate his messages to Congress and speeches on the subject throughout the country. Naturally the disclosures of Senator Tilman and Sena- tor Bailey created sensation among