Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-13
ONE OF THE MEN
WAS UNTRUTHFUL
What MeSsrS. Tillman and
Chandler Said Last Night.
LATTER DEFENDS HIS WORD
Even as Against That of the Presi-
dent of the United States.
HAS WRITTEN A STATEMENT
But 1t May Never See the Light
President May Issue a Document
Tomorrow Morning.
LATTER DEFENDS HIS WORD
Even as Against That of the Presl-
dent of the United States.
HAS WRITTEN A STATEMENT

..Yes. Senator Chandler the statement
1 read in the Senate before / presented It.
Tins sDoke Senator Tnlman to a Star re-
porter last evening when visited IN MS
rooms at the Colonial Hotel He referred
To his statement OF events connected with
Ms relations with the President In reg ava
- the railroad rate bill
what do you think of the Genial of the
President received by Senate: Lodge by
+elepbnue and announced in the Senate?
Tie senator was asked.
THAT denial related to what the Presl-
dent said about Senators Knox, Spoonef
and Foraker Leave that out and you have
merely separated an incident from the gen
eral statement All the balance remains
The experience of Senator Lodge IN deny
Ing statements on information received py
telephone is such that 1 do not think
great deal of Importance can be attached 20
it, anyway
..yyba- do Won think caused the President
to change his position on the PROPOSES
amcnducnt TO the rate bill2' he was asked
Il feel that it is due the President that l
should not make any reply 10 that question
a this time" said the senator
Mr. Chandler Seen.
Senator Chandler was visited at his
residence on l street last night by Star
reporter who asked Mr.. Chandler If he
proposed to make any comment upon the
statements in the Senate and President
Roosevelt's remarks to Senator Lodge con
cerpIng them Mr.. Chandler had clipping
from The Star in his hand, containing tue
statement of Senator Ttliman
II have no comment 10 make tonight,
said Mr. Chandler. Il desire to wait until l
can read in the Congressional Record al
that Was said and quoted in the Senate.
tsV ,.-rf1 s-.-- hat \
ruent upon this subject which may or may
not see the light" Further than that MT
Chandler refused to talk His manner pc
trssved no emotion nor anger, Dut any one
who has known him in the Senate In the
past would have recognized certain cola
quality IN speech and manner that podeu
IN for whoever should be the possible sub
feet of animadversion IN any reinalhs he
Intended to make later.
After making the foregoing statement 10
The Star reporter Mr.. Chandler called on
senator Tiuman. and in the presence OF
friends talked freely though entirely m
formally about the incident.
His Word Against the Presidents.
In the course of this fragmeutary conver-
sation Mr. Chandler is reported TO have
said that he regretted exceedingly that it
has become necessary for him TO place his
word against that of the President of the
United States He realized what 1t means
10 at this time be branded by the President
of the United States as a deliberate and un-
qualified falsiher
He has prepared in writing a statement
which he would make public. perhaps
within the next forty eight hours and
perhaps not until later, he said. But
whenever the statement Is issued he
wanted fl understood that he would not
rest under the imputation cast upon hlm
nv the President The statement when
issued viii deal with these matters bet
ter than he could at this time.
Just at present he did not want the opln-
ion Of the country diverted from the great
question Of railway rate legislation. For
the present then, II was imrnaterlai ana
minor matter whether or not he was
falsiher. Il have in my many years OF
ptIbHc life said a great many strong things
on a great many matters, and put on rec
ord many things about matters, and It yet
remains for one of these to be disProved'
he said.
The President had he believed. acted on
impulse. He knows only the one state
ment read him by Senator Lodge. he
knows nothing OF what was said before or
after He does not deny that the conver-
sation which has been referred 10 was had
with me. He only says that Senator
Foraker's name was not mentioned, and
that the names OF Senators Spooner and
Knox were spoken of only in high praise.
u went directly from the White House
70 Senator Tillmau's apartments. and II Is
reasonable to suppose that. dealing to-
gether as we were. ] should not tell him
anything that the President did not say.
What had ] 20 galnE we We're All WORK
Ing FOR the same desired end
The Ex-Senator's Friends.
ATr ChandIers friends have known for
several DAYS that he has felt very deeply
upon the subject of the victory of the con-
servatlves at a time when he was being
utilized in efforts to bring about an agree
1nent upon a narrow judicial review. clause.
An informant of TAe Star said last night
that he had seen Mr. Chandler soon after
the announcement of the famous visit of
the thirty-six correspondents to the White
House when the President announced his
acauiescence in the Allison amendment.
This informant went on to say that Mr..
Chandler a that time was very indignant
over the Presidents reported change of
front and that he declared that he would
not permit himself TO be placed in any
false attitude concerning those negotiations.
Some of Senator Chandlers friends last
night were confident that he would make a
statement of the case as soon as he IL in
receipt OF the official record of what has
been said In his name. Those friends
pointed out that the stands there
Is a clear question of yeracity between Mr..
Chandler and Senator Tillrnan or between
Mr.. Chandler and Senator Tillnnan as
against the President and that somewhere
there Is a misstatement at least a vio-
lent misunderstanding.
The Sensational Episode.
The episode in the Senate yesterday az
ternoon was by IAr the most profound SON
sation OF the long contest over the rate bili,
which has teemed with surprises and SEN
satIons. Senator Tillman figured in the
last sensation. when the rate bill was
dumped upon him by the committee There
have been rumorS for several days that
trouble was brewing and senator's and
newspaper men have been looking for an
outburst either from Senator Tiilman or
Senator Bailey upon the subject of the
Presidents change OF attitude toward the
negotiations.
Senators were all the more ready to an
ticipate squalls from their knowledge OF