The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-18
senator bailey AGAIN
SPEAKS IN own Defense
has MEYER BEFORE BEEN AC-
CUSED OF DOUBLE
DEALING.

Would Put the Brand of Liar So That
All Men Might Know Him and Shun
Him--Intense Interest During His
speech on the Railroad Rate Measure
SQuabbIe.
washington, May 17-Senator Bailey
again to-day took the floor in the SEN
ate to make a further explanation OF
his connection with the efforts TO Sc
cure and understanding between the
president and the democratic senators
on the railroad rate bill basing MS
statement on an article in the Chicago
Tribune and the New York Tribune
charging him with bad faith in that
connection and giving ex-senator
Chandler as authority for that state
ment. He had read a series Of letters
and memoranda beginning with a re-
ouest from himself to the former sem
ator for copy of any statement that
he might have made that justified this
statement. This was followed by the
reading Of the following letter from Mr.
Chandler:
washington, D. c., May 16, 1906
Hon j. w. Bailey, U. S. Senator:
''Dear sir: / have your letter OF to-
day and l enclose to you a copy of
memorandum sent by me to the White
house on the morning of wednesday,
April ii. think the memorandum was
not dated, but my retained copy is
dated April IL. 1 did not therein give
the president any assurance as to your
attitude relative to the so-called game
because / had not seen you and did not
feel authorized by anything Mr.. Till
man had then said to give any assur-
ance in your name. At 9:15 p m.
saw Mr., Tillman and talked with him
fully and he then told me that neither
he nor yourself We're entering into
games with the railroad senators; and
at $3.50 I saw the president and told
him what Mr.. Tillman had said and
that he need have no apprehension on
the subject. 1 enclose to you copies
Moody and again on the 14th and ar
ranged with him to see Mr.. Tillman
and yourself on the next day, Sunday,
the 18th.
yours truly,
"Wm. E. Chandler"
Then followed the memorandum to
Secretary Loeb and that was accom-
panied by an extract from Mr.. Chand-
lers diary. The memorandum was as
follows:
"The game Of the railroad senators Is
to support Bailey's amendment and in
duce him to agree to broad right Of
court review. What that is to be he is
not certain, but the principal object is
to beat him. meaning the president.
Mr.. Tillman, however, considers him
self as acting with the president to
pass the review clause with the mini
mum amount of court power and will
not enter into any such game"
This was accompanied by a private
note to Secretary Loeb as follows
"Please hand this to the president
privately. I am hearing an important
case all day to-day but could see him
if he wished ct o'clock"
The diary extract reads:
'Diary-April IL, at 9:15 p. m. Saw
Senator Tillman at the Colonial about
rate legislation. At $50 at White
house saw president alone upstairs,
talked of railroad rates and many. 9TH
er things for more than an hour. He
was very gracious. At about 7:S0 went
to Colonial With Tillman until 11:45"
Proceeding with his remarks, Mr..
Bailey said that the New York Tribune
of to-day had put the matter some
what differently from yesterdays pre-
sentation thus modifying the lie." He
quoted to1day's article in which it was
stated that copies Of Mr.. Chambers
letter to the president had been in cir
culation among democratic senators.
To this statement Mr.. Bailey gave
special attention saying that he had
made inquiry sufficient to assure him
that not one of the democratic senators
had ever seen the document, much less
circulated It,
II did not yesterday know that any
senator on the republican side had seen
it. but I am enabled to say now that
on yesterday the president showed 1t to
one of them and also to a member of
the house and If this statement is de-
MED, can call Names"
He then declared that if Mr., Chandler
had never spoken another word, there
was not a syllable in his memorandum
concerning himself to justify the state
ment that he (Chandler) had impugn-
ed his (Balley's) good faith. He does
not sa ythat was playing game, he
went on 'but others were. will say
that the game was played to catch 9TH
ers, and very successfully" Further
constituting the memorandum, he called
attention to the fact that the effort was
to "beat he presiden."
''With that" he added, "I ought to
have sympathized but at the time did
not" He then called attention to the
fact that upon the presidents authority
Mr.. Chambers veracity had been chal-
lenged i'm the senate by Mr.. Lodge, and
asked: "In view of hat fact does it
lie in the mouth of those people to as
SAIL me with a statement like that from
a man whom they have denounced as a
false witness?"
Continuing he said:
'The president did not consider this
memorandum as an impeachment of
my good faith. The proof of that is
that with the memoranda before him,
within three days, he asked me to con-
fer with his attorney general upon this