The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-16
STILL FORTIFYINC.
TiIIman Submits More Evidence
in Roosevelt Controversy.
Lengthy LetterFrom Ex-senator
Chandler Submitted.
HE DOES NOT WAYER.
InsistsThat Presidents Position
Was as Quoted.
HE DOES NOT WAIVER.
Abandoned Court of Review
Limitations Without Notice.
Never Again Act as Missionary
From Roosevelt to Democrats.

Washington, May Ex-senator Till
man today received from. former Sena-
tor William E. Chandler, a statement
of his course as an intermediary in the
negotiations between President Roose-
welt and Senators Tillman and Bailey
on the railroad rate bill. The commun-
ication bears upon Senator Lodges de-
NAL for the president of Mr.. Chand-
Ier's statement quoting the president as
saying he had lost confidence in Sena-
tors Foraker, Spooner and Knox. It
was offered IN the senate by Senator
TiIlman and will be printed in the Con-
gressionaI Record.
The text of the statement follows:
MIR. Dear Mr.. Tillnan:-As the tele-
phonic denial by President + Roosevelt
Lodge remains in the Congressional
Record of May II, it seems to me that
I should take some notice of it which
I do now by reaffirming the essential
truth of the statement I made to you
and which you repeated in the senate.
Much as I regret that the hasty action
] of Senator Lodge and the president has
1 forced an issue between the president
and myself. the extreme language he
used makes such issue unavoidable and
1 1 can not shrink from or evade it, al
! though / can not use toward the chief
executive of the nation, language like
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ments I submit the controversy with
confidence to the judgment Of those
who know me.
Stands by His Statement.
For those who do not know me
1 there is fortunately circumstantial evil
| that the president could not have omit
ted to make in substance the statement
/ which he denies. Nor could he have
/ then made the whole statement which
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| has led him into serious error upon q
| point of no importance in ITSELF but
| only as affecting his attack upon me
give to you a further statement as
e'Prior 10 March 81. I had not seer
the president for a long time I die
not go to the White House as a repre-
sentative of Senator Tillman, but solely
because the president summoned me
1 there by the letter from Mr.. Loeb and
| [ waited for him to express his object
It was unmistakably stated to be q
communication with Mr.. Tillman, WhC
had the rate bill in charge, and other
t Democrats of the senate for the pur-
pose of securing the adoption in the
| railway rate bill of a court review
clause limiting the inquiry to the ques-
ton whethe er the commission had ex-
ceeded its authority or had violated the
constitutional rights of the carrier.
Il knew and he knew that it was im-
possible for him to open conferences
with Mr.. Il1inan unless ne was 1ully
satisfied that the president had abso-
lutely given UP all intention of coming
to an agreement with the senators who
had been making the contest for ar
unlimited court review, and in stating
Il his object he said that he had parted
from them finally, naming Senators
Knox, Foraker and Spooner as the SEN
ators who had made the arguments II
the senate to sustain that view. anc
h e used as nearly as I can recollect the
language given in my statement re-
peated by Mr.. Tfllnan.
Agreement With Long and Allison.
ssThe conversation included the under
standing which he had that day reach
ed with Senators Long and Allison, the
fact that net one third of the Republi-
can senators could be relied on to vote
for the limited court review and that il
was vital that the support of nearly al
the Democrats should be obtained.
when an hour later I visited Mr.
TilIman and told him my mission from
the president I found him distrustfu
and suspicious. He questioned me close
" as to what the president had SAID
and I related to him as accurately as
could the statement made by the pres