Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-17
BLAME WHITE HOUSE
Senators Tillman and Bailey Denounce Writer as Liar.
MALICIOUS ARTICLE WAS INSPIRED"

MALlUlUUS AkllULE WAS lNSPlkED'
 Sensation Tn Congress When wrangl, Over Rate Bill Was Renewed.
 Chandler Glad to Save His Head From Executioner. | WASHINGTON, May 17.-Senatorl
 Bailey and Tillman caused sensation
 in the senate by rising to a question ol personal privilege and .denounclng as 6
 malicious liar the writer of an article
 which appeared in the Chicago Tribune and also in New York paper, which
 held Mir. Bailey responsible for the failure of the agreement between the president and Mir. Tillman on the rail
 road rate bill and charged him with
 being frequently in conference with
 Senator Aldrich for the purpose of de
 feating the bill.
 MT. Bailey hinted that the article was
 inspired in the White House and de-
 nounced the man who inspired it as an
 unqualified, deliberate and malicious
 liar.
 Pointing to the press gallery, Senator Bailey said:
 ''I intend to put in the Record upon the statement of more than one repu- table newspaper correspondent in that gallery, and, as rule, they are as honorable as senators on this floor, on their authority I state that the two chief cuckoos of this administration are the correspondents of the New York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune.
 And therefore 1t seems to me con- elusive that this islander proceeds from the White House. hope, for the hon. or of my country. that it does not pro ceed from the president himself.
 But if he be man of high. sense of honor he will see to it that senators are not slandered by his subordinates, and the miserable wretch who com municated to these newspapers and who sought through them to communi- cate to the country islander on me which people might discuss. rather than these issues that have been raised, he is unfit for his high office, and the man who perpetrated that infamy will pay for it with his position. And if the man continues to hold his office it is to be assumed that what he has done has been with the approval of his chief.'
 When Mir. Bailey had finished Mir. Tillman arose and also denounced the article in the two papers. Then he read letter from MT. Chandler. in which the writer said the presidents has led him into a seri- ous error. adding though I cannot use to the chief executive of the nation language like his own"
 In deliberate monotone that was none the less impressive and while ab- solute silence reigned Mir. Bailey said as he arose to address the senate in re- gard to the article:
 T denounce the publication as an unqualified, deliberate and malicious lie. I denounce that correspondent Hs iHn iuneualifed, udelibesate audyma- icious liar. denounce the man who inspired the statement as an unquali- fed. deliberate and malicious liar. who- sver he may be and however high the office he holds.'
 Mir. Tillman then arose. He address d himself to two points. prefacing his statement by saying the correspondent vas evidently a muck raker." He aid he had counted eight distinct false loods with reference to himself. In most emphatic language he declared hat never for one instant was there in lis mind the slightest doubt of the sin 'erity and good faith of the senator rom Texas. Tn strong terms he in- lorsed the senator from Texas, with whom he had been in perfect accord 
 Tn order" he said in conclusion, that we may know who Is lying in his recent controversy I submit the ollowing letter from Mir. Chandler"
 He then read the letter. the most in- eresting feature of which is contained a the closing paragraph:
 'on the whole perhaps ought to onsider myself fortunate. If the old mperialist days had been fully re- ived at the White House. one whom
 considered the best of friends. Sen tor Lodge. upon demand. would have ut on my head and taken it to Presi- ent Roosevelt on a charger. and I hould have spoken no more. Now at east I have left to me the power of beech. but shall never use 1t again s missionary from President Roose- cit to the Democratic party" Y After several other efforts to secure ie adoption of substitutes the Culber- on amendment to the rate bill was greed to-60 to 16.
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