The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-18
MIR. BAILEY
 TOOK FLOOR Correspop.s snts Were Ass Denounced. READ <lTTER FROM CHANDLER Asks from Whom Raymond" Got
 His Memorandum. Texan Says That Chicago Newspaper Man Considers Being Overlooked When Called an UnquaIined
 and Malicious Liar.
 

again today took the floor In the Senate to make further explanation of his connection with the efforts to secure an understanding between the Presi- dent and the Democratic Senators on the railroad rate bill, basing his state ment on an article in The Chicago Tribune and The New York Tribune, charging him with bad faith In that connection and giving ex-Senator Chandler as authority for that state ment.
 He had read a series of letters and menoranda beginning with a request from himself to the former Senator for copy of any statement that he might have made that Justified this statement This was followed by the reading of the following letter from MT. Chand- Ter:
 washington. D. C., May is, 1906 Hon. J. W. Bailey. United States Sem ator:
 Dear sir-I have your letter Of to- day and ! enclose to you copy of memorandum sent by me to the White House on the morning of Wednesday. Aprh H. I think the memorandum was not dated, but my retained copy is dated April II. did not therein give the President any assurances as to your atfitude relative to the so-called game, because had not seen you and did not feel Authorized by anything Mir. Tillman had then said to give any assurance in your name. At s:15 D. m, saw Mir. Tillman and talked with him fully and he then told me that neither he nor yourself were entering into games with the railroad Senators; and at 9:3o I saw the President and told him what MT. Tilln1an had said and that he need have no apprehension on the subject. enclose you copies | FxA Ata~ a0 Moody and again on the f4th and ar ranged with him to see Mr. TiIinaan and yourself on the next day. Sunday, the 18th,
 Yours truly twiliiasn D Chandler The following is the raerlorandum tc l sscretary Loeb and that was accom- panied by an extract from Mir Chand- Iler's diary The memorandun was as follows:
 sRaflrcad Senators, Garre.1 The game Of the railroad Senators is to support Bailey's amendment and induce him to agree to broad right of court review. What that is to be is not certain, but the principal object Is to beat him. meaning the President MT. Tillman, however, considers him self as acting with the President to pass the review clause with the mini mum amount of court power and will not enter Into any such game"
 This was accompanied by a private not to Secretary Loeb as follows:
 Please hand this to the President privately. I am hearing an important case all day today. but could see him if he wished al o'clock"
 The diary extract reads: Diary: April II at 9:15 D. m. Saw Senator TilIman at the Colonial about railroad rate legislation. At s:so at white house, saw President Roosevelt alone upstairs. Talked of railroad rates and many other things for more than an hour, He was very gracious At about 10;so to Colonial. with Tillman until 11:45"
 Proceeding with his remarks MT. Bailey, said that the New York Trib- une of today had put the matter some presentation thus modifying the lie" He quoted today's article in which 1t was stated that copies of Mir Chand- ler's letter to the President had been In circulation among Democratic Sen ators.
 To this statement MT Bailey gave especial attention saving that he had made inquiry sufficient to assure him that not one of the Democratic sena- tors had ever seen the document much less circulate it. T did not yesterday know that any senator on Republican,
 
 say that now that on yesterday the President showed 1t to one of them and also to a member of the House and if this statement is denied I can call names"
 No Detection on Bailey.
 He then declared that if MT Chand- Ter had never spoken another word there was ont syllable in his mem oranduna concerning himself to justify the statement that he (Chandler) had impugned his (Bailey's) good faith He does not see that I was playing A game" he went on. but that others were. will say that the game was played to catch others and very sue cessfuny' Further construine the memorandum, he called attention to the fact that the effort was to "beat the President"
 With that" he added, T ought to have sympathized. but at the time did not" He then called attention to the fact that upon the Presidents authori- ty MT, Chandler's veracity had been challenged in the Senate by MT. Lodge and asked
 Tn view of that fact does 1t lie in the mouth of those people to assau me with statement like that from a man whom they have denounced as a false witness?
 Continuing he said
 The tttSSiuSttl ulu ElOl lOHStQGr InlS memorandum an impeachment of my good faith, The proof of that Is, that with the memoranda before him, within three days he asked me to con fer with his attorney general on this vital question.
 "It Is unconceivable that the Presi- dent with a suspicion of my integrity in his mind would permit his attorney general to transmit to me an amend ment intended to be incorporated in this great measure. I have no words 10 express my opinion Of those who would treat with those whom they suspect of treachery and only trait ors would do it."
 Senator Bailey then read briefly from the reply of The Chicago Tribune's cor respondent to his speech of denuncia- ton made on yesterday, and. continu- ing said
 My statement does not seem to have disturbed the correspondent of that paper because he says he was over looked in my attack on the President. Perhaps he regards as being oYerlc oked