River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-17
President silent
Regarding CHARGES
ROOSEVELT MAINTAINS SILENCE
LLMAN-CHANDLER-RATE
BILL CONTROVERSY.
MOODY AND ALLISON
SEE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Attorney General Fears Motives of
Democrats Railway President
Makes a Protest-Big Fight Is
Predicted.

Washington, May 15.-Secretary
Loeb announced Monday that there
would be no public statement for the
present from the White House regard
ing the Tillman-C Chandler charges, and
it was likely that none would be made
on the floor of the senate on behalf
of the president.
The president may have decided
that the wiser course is silence save
for the word already given, that he
did not accuse Senators Foraker,
Knox and Spooner of double-dealing
with the people.
Motive of Democrats Feared.
Attorney General Moody saw the
president Monday, and Mr.. Moody per-
sonally is satisfied not to make a
statement touching hi, own part in
the alleged deal with the Democrats
because he feared that there were
Interior motives behind their solicit
tude to aid him and his acceptance
of the Allison amendment as the only
one which could command support
and save the bill in anything like the
form in which the president desired
that it pass.
With Attorney General Moody Sen
ator Allison visited the president and
discussed the situation that has arisen
concerning the railroad rate bill. On
leaving the executive office Mr.. Moody
said that he would make no answer
to Mr.. Tillman, and that if any state
ment is made it will come from the
president. He would not say, how
ever, that such a statement is to be
made. DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
chaplain of the senate, read to that
body at it's converting Monday this
text from the sculptures:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children of
God. Blessed are we when men shall
revile and prosecute you and say all
manner of evil against you falsely for
my sake
Protest by Railway President.
When the senate resumed consider
alton of the railway rate bill Senator
Nelson introduced a telegram from A.
B. Stickney, president of the Chicago
Great Western railway, protesting
against the amendment infiicting fines
and Imprisonment on officers and
agents of railways for granting re-
bates. Mr.. Stickney thought the pun
ishment should be directed against the
railway company itself, so that it could
reach the railway cars and grand
dukes who live in New York" and
not punish some poorly paid freight
agent who in an endeavor to comply
with the demand for more revenue
might be tempted to offer a rebate. As
the amendment stands now Mr.. Stick
ney thinks it would punish only the
tools of the real offenders.
Hot Fight Predicted.
| The hottest fight the senate has
| known in many years is predicted
when the sensational controversy be-
| tween President Roosevelt and Senator
| Tillman and ex-senator William e
| Chandler, in which each has been
| branded as liar, comes up for dis
cussiOn.
Now that it is known that eX-Sena-
JOE NsuduulCI Has SuUSldllIIctlCu lLN
statement made in the senate Saturday
| by Senator Tillman to the effect that
the president had deliberately broken
faith with the democratic leaders on
the railroad rate bill, political scan
dial has been launched that involves
the veracity of the nations executive
and eminent members of both the Re-
publican parties.
Mr.. Chandler, former United States
senator from New Hampshire, and ex-
secretary of the navy, has long borne
| the highest reputation for honor and
| integrity. He is a fighter, and, as lie
has now been declared falsifer by
| the president, it is expected that he
will issue a scathing reply.