The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-16
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tonight There IL NJ etprc,ation ina, Tho
President will d. anything 10 fsyive the
controversy.
Soon after the S~nnts mot to-day there
WA promise ~ u renewal ~ the question
involved In the charges ~ Mr. TiIlman and
Mr.. Chandler TINT President Roosevelt had
entered into nm arrangement with them 10
help the rate bill and had then left thom Ia
the lnrch without ~ much ~ saying 'by
your leave
Mr.. Tillman, rising 10 n question of per.
sonnl privilege. denied a newspaper inter.
view in which he was quoted ~ saying that
Senator Aldrich had attempted to make =
compact with Democratic Senators 10 put q
broad court review clause into the measure.
He had never made any such statement. de-
clared Mr.. Tillman. Mr.. Aldrich made only
a brief comment 10 the effect that no was
not satisfied with the explanation, and that
ne had never before seen 80 many misstate-
ments in one mail par agraph,
Not until later in the day was anything
said in the Senate bearing on the issue.
Then Mr.. Tillman got up right in the middle
OF the rate bill debate and said he had waited
for an opportune moment to come TO say
something about his allegations concerning
the President. But as that moment would
not CONF he made it himself.
Mr.. President, said Mr.. Tillman, Il fssl
that an apology is due the Senate for intro
ducing into this interesting and instructive
discussion an extraneous matter. But u
appears that no opportune moment will
come. / have already waited too long.
"On Saturday last the Senate was startled
and doubtless mortified when the state
ment Of an honored ex-member Of this
body. on the authority Of u telephone
message, was denounced as being a dehb-
crate and unqualified falsehood; ana as |
had the misfortune, | may term 1t, OF bring
ing about the situation which caused this
Remuneration 10 VI tHadIt, ! ltN 'lll'iNt WIN
obligations, very sacred obligations. W
the man whose good name was thus at
tackled and who is my trusted friend, and
also an obligation to myself to sustain,
although l do not know If it is necessary,
my own good faith in reading the state
ment ] did, to give II to the Senate in order
that it may go into the Record, the aus
thoritative statement, signed and sent to
-- H. 80 -s.rA 10 Ill
l shall only give that part of it which re-
lates to the particular subject l have just
mentioned
Mr.. Tillman read the partial statement
which ex-senator Chandler furnished 10
the press on Sunday night, confirming
what Mr.. Tillman had said In the Senate
on Saturday about the alleged compact
between the President and Senators Bailey
and Tillman, through Mr.. Chandler, to get
the rate bill through with Democratic help.
When he finished reading he continued his
remarks,
Il do not deem II necessary 10 read The
rest Of this letter at the present me While
I am dealing with this subject I noted this
morning and Senators have read IN the
papers q letter addressed to the senior
Senator from Iowa [Mr. Alllson] by the
President in which this subject 10 presented
from his point Of view. I had expected
that possibly something would be said
about the question Of veracity between
the President and Mr. Chandler. But II
nothing is said I have nothing moro 10 do
with it, other than to pat the record before
the country. or rather 10 put IN enduring
form Mr.. Chandlers ~ statement TO me-.
Il had also anticipated that possibly as
the future historian would have Soma
trouble in digging Out OF tbe newspapers
the facts in the cas- the Senator from
Iowa [Mr. Alisonl or some Other friend Of
the President would put into tho Rscord
the letter from the White Hou9a But
that has not been done and I fesi E1ySsf
called upon to make ONO little comment
on that letter.
INGENIOUS o NOT INoINuova.s
sThere are only two points In the Pred-
dent 3 letter which I deem worthy Of notice.
His attempted explanation Is ingenious
but not Ingenious. He for q second time
calls In question the integrity Of purpose
and utteranoe of Mr.. Chandler by declaring;
he was asked to zee ex Senator Chandler
as representing Mr.. Tillman, who was In
charge of the bill. He stated TO me the
views Of Mr.. Tllman with seeming au-
thority.'
"Mr. Chandler has declared most posi-
lively in a written statement that the Pres-
dent sent for him for the purpose Of getting
into communication with Senator Bailey
and myself, and he has produced the letter
Of Mr.. Loeb to prove it.
Il now declare most emphatioally that
to no human being have l ever given au-
thority or even expressed a wish to have
any conference with Theodore Roosevelt In
regard TO the bill now under consideration.
On the contrary / have expressed the opin-
ion In more than one published interview
that he had nothing to do with 1t and that
1t was the business OF the Senate, and while
I did at his request enter INTO negotiations
with the Attorney-Gcnera it Is we'll known
to every Senator on this floor what my
attitude and feelings have been, and it Is
most remarkable, while the President sent
for Democrat after Democrat - cpafcr with
him about this measure, that he should
undertake under the circumstances to assert
that I sent a agent to him to be in negoti-
atoms. Thu statement ia absurd on its face.
The other point to which shall refer is
the cayalier way In which Mr.. MOODY dis