The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
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Senate what Chandler
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In Rspasd 10 Presidents alleges
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W.. Tiiimas says the President Ssaaht Is8
Aid IN Aeepias Obassisus Amsnas
merits FROM me Rate Iin an
Amendment for Limited Court Review.
raw by Attssnsy-Geuesai Meedy.
Had Tseeu Agreed UpsH and That ste
Had the Votes 20 Pass 10 when Ife was
surprised 10 Hear the President HAD
Abandoned 10 for tho Allison Couss
premiee-InvOkes the judgment az
the Country on the Presidents Actioa.
WASHINGTON, May i2.-Toward this end
OF to-day's session. that had been full OF
dramatic interest, the Senate was treated
to O genuine sensation when Senator Lodge;
President Roosevelt's intimate friend. de-
MED emphatically, In behalf Of tbs Presi.
dent, statements that Mad been made by
Senator Tillman az to the Presidents part
in the railway rate legislation controversy.
Mr.. Tillman, who started an epidemic
OF criticism Of the President among the
Democratic Senators, had declared early
In the day that ex-senator William Z.
Chandler OF New Hampshire had acted as
the Presidents envoy In negotiating with
Democrats who would not 60 to the White
House, and that the President had said to
Mr.. Chandler that Senator'S Knox, Spooner
and Foraker were trying to injure ordefeat
the rate bill by ingenious constitutional
arguments
After q conversation over the telephone
with President Roosevelt, MIR. Lodge de-
olared on the floor Of the Senate, witt con-
siderable show Of feeling. that he was
authorized by the President to say that
the President denounced as "A deliberate
and unqualified f~alsehood" Mr.. Tllman's
statement, which he said was made to him
by Mr.. Chandler, that Senators Knox.
Spooner and Foraker were trying to injure
or defea. the measure. Mr., Lodge also de-
clared that Mr.. Chandler was only one OF
scores OF mon with whom the President
had discussed rate legislation, but he did
not deny that Mr., Chambers negotiations
with Mi. Tillman were authorized,
Whom the Senate met to-day it was eS-
lected by many Senators that before the
! session was over the rate bill would have
been passed. nut the most that was done
Was to adopt the judicial review and other
provisions Of the so-called Allison com
| promise, which has insured the enactment
of a rate law by Republican votes. II was
over this compromise that the criticism OF
President Roosevelt arosa, and from tho
time the Senate sta rted In on that tack it
vert at 1t In mmer and tongs and forgot
all about the real business at hand
srNhroR R,lHET EtnINS Ir.
Senator RayEcr Of Maryland really began
it, and Senator On rtor OF Montana came blct
Mt him. Senator Bailey, the Democratic
leader, a ccussd Mr.. Carter Of getting angry
ioco use Mr.. Rsyrer had failed to mention
him as one Of the Presidents rate bill en,ls-
saries.
Then MIR. Tillman took his fling at the
President in a carefully prepar red statement,
and Senators Dolliver, Carter, Long, Clapp
n nd others rose to the Presidents defence.
The Democrats accused the President Of
having gone back on the principles for
which he stood In the rate bill fight, and Of
having surrendered to the enemies Of rate
legislation through accomplishing the broad
court review provision Of the Allison oom-
promise. Mr.. Bailey said hat the President
was not a man Of iron, but a mar Of clay,
"and very common clay at that
Mr.. Deliver, in defending tho President,
! declared that most Of the trouble over ths
rate bill had come from the controversies
| of he constitutional lawyers in the Senate,
who had produced q perfect intellectual
Kilksnnyism.
- -u- -. l,.- A.
President as o traitor TO the rate bill cause,
and the other aid upholding his attitude.
The two main events OF this notable de-
bate were Mr.. Tillman's statement concern
ing his negotiations with ex-senator Chan
dler, who he claimed, was the Presidents
envoy, empowered 10 make a compact with
the Democrats to get tho rate bill passed,
and Mr.. Lodges sensational denial. In behalf
Of the President, Of h Mr., Tillman had
said.
MR. TILLMAN's sTATRMRNr.
Mr.. Tillman had prepared what he had to
say about ex-senator Chandler's part 10 the
rate bill fight. He read it, as follows:
"on Saturday evening, March 81, 1ao1.
/ was informed by ex-senator William r..
Chandler that President Roosevelt had
sent TO him a note asking him TO call ut the
White House that evening; thai he had
obeyed the call and had been told by the
President that he desired through him, to get
into communication with me as the Senator
in charge Of the railroad rate bill and with
Senator Bailey. representing the Democrats
Of the Senate, for the purpose Of ascertain
ing whether there could be such united
action among the friends in the Senate
OF the Hepburn bill as would make a sure
majority In tie favor and against injurious
amendments.
"Mr. Chandler said that the President