The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-17
SENATOR CHANDLER
 ISSUES A LETTER
Explains Facts in His Course as
 lntermediator
WILL GO IN THE RECORD
Stands By Former Statements Made By Senator Tillman On Floor of the Senate as Coming
 From Himself.

Washington, May 16-Senator Tillman today received from former Senator Will liam E. Chandler a statement of his course as an intermediary in negotiations between President Roosevelt and Senators Tillman and Bailey or the railroad rate bill The communication bears upon Sena- tor Lodges denial for the President of MT. Chandler's statement quoting the President as saying that he had lost con- fidence in Senators ForaIer, Spooner and Knox. It was offered In the Senate by Senator Tillman and will be printed in the Congressional Record.
 The text of the statement follows:
 My Dear Mir Tillman: As the tele- phonic denial by President Roosevelt sent to the Senate through Senator Lodge re- mains in the Congressional Record of May F, it seems to me that I should take some notice of 1t, which 1 do now by reaffirming the essential truth of the statement made to you, and which you reported in the Senate Much that I re- gret that the nasty action of Senator Lodge and the President has forced an is- sue between the President and myself, the extreme language he used makes such issue unavoidable, and I cannot shrink from or evade it, although l can not use toward the chief executive of the ration language like his own. Upon our respective statements I submit the con troversy with confidence to the Judgment of those who know me.
 For those who do not know me there is fortunately circumstantial evidence of a. high order which shows that the Presi- dent could not have omitted to make in substance the statement which he denies. Nor could he have then made the whole statement which he now substitutes. His impulsiveness has led him into serious error upon a point of no importance in itself, but only as affecting his attack upon me. l give to you a further state ment as follows:
 Has Not Seen President.
 "Prior to March 31 l had not seen the President for a long time. did not go to the White House az a representative Of Senator Tilman but solely because the President summoned me there by the letter from MT. Loeb, and 1 waited for him to express his object. It was unmis- takably stated to be communication with MT. Tillman, who had the rate bill in charge and other democrats In the Senate to secure the adoption in the rail- road bill of a court review clause limiting the inquiry to the question whether the commission had exceeded It's authority or had violated the constitutional right of the carrier.
 "I knew and he knew that it was im- possible for him to open conferences with Tillman, unless he was fully satisfied that the President had absolutely given up all hope of an intention to come to an agree ment with the senators who had been making the contest for an unlimited court review and in stating his object he stated that he had parted from them finally, naming Senators Knox, Foraker and Spooner as the senators who had made the arguments in the Senate to sustain that view, and he used as nearly as l can recollect the language given in my statement repeated by MT. Tillman.
 "The conversation included the under standing which he had that day reached within Senators Long and Allison, the fact that not over one-third of the re- publican senators could be relied for the limited court review, and that 1t was vital that the support of nearly all the democrats should be obtained.
 Visited TilIman.
 "When an hour later I visited MT. Till man and told him my mission from the President found him distrustful and sus- plcious He questioned me closely as to what the President had said. and I re- lated to him as accurately as l could the statement made by the President to me, and I convinced him that the President had ceased to hope for compromise with the senators named, and the other advo- cates of an unlimited court review. when ss tisfied that this was the case, he readily consented to cooperate with the President and said that he would see Bailey and report to me the result. which he did rfving that there would be perfect ac- cord on the limitation of the right of review If carried forward in connection with a limitation of the right to issue ex parte injunctions.
 .',rhe conferences thus begun were on the 18th at my suggestion transferred to Attorney General Moody. and at once re- ceived an understanding that the enort could be made to limit the right of court review as stated in the Long amendment and in the paper drawn up on April l6 by MT Moody and later perfected by Messrs. Moody. Tillman and Bailey. Was 1t not natural and essential that the President should nave satisfied me that he had finally separated from the question or the court review from the senators who were the principal opponents to any limitation of that review which they believed would be unconstitutional. and that should have repeated his statements to MT. TIL man. is it possible that I went directly that night 10 Senator Tillman al the Co- lonial hotel and poured into his ears a de- liherate and unqualified falsehood?
 Consider next, the statement which the President says he thinks he made instead of the one narrated by me. Senator For aker he says. was not mentioned l am quite sure he was mistaken. Senators Knox and Spooner. he says, were men tioned. but that all that was said about them was. as to Senator Knox that the President did not agree with portion of his proposed amendment. but that he thought he had made a strong argu- ment for asserting affirmatively the ju- risdiction or authority of the court and as to Senator Spooner that his name was only mentioned by him to express a cor dial approval of Senator Spooner's amend ment.
 Spooner Amendment.
 This Spooner amendment was not off, fered in the Senate until May 10. but that learn that 1t had been in existence and shown to the President as early as March 31. does not appear. But this is certain if the President had on that night told me that he cordially approved of 1t and I had so reported to MT. Till man there would have ensued no con- ferences looking to cooperation. there fore. the President as to that amendment, had in mind conversation at some other time or with some other person
 ''It should also be borne in mind that the report l made to MT. Tillman of the Presidents conversation is comparatively harmless and inoffensive. Here it is: He said he had been much troubled by the