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He Reaffirms Essential Truth Of
What He Said to Senator
TiIIman.
ISSUE WAS FORCED ON HIM.
Regrets Hasty Action Of Senator
Lodge and the President in
The Matter.
Says Presidents lmpulslyencss Has Led
Him Into SERIOUS Error on Point
or No Importance.

Washington. May Ex-senator Till
man today received from former SEN
ator, William T.. Chandler statement
of his course as an intermediary in
the negotiations between President
Roosevelt and Senators rilI'mah and
Bailey on the railroad rate bill. The
communication bears upon Senator
Lodges denial for the president Of
Mr.. Chambers statement quoting the
president as saying he had lost conf
dence in Senator'S Foraker. Spooner
and Knox 1t was offered in the sem
ate by Senator 1'illman and win be
printed in the Congressional Record.
TEXT OF LETTER
The text of the statement follows:
My dear Mr. 'Iillman: As the tele-
phonic denial by President Roosevelt
sent TO the senate through Senator
Lodge remains IN the Congressional
Record of May II IL seems TO me that
/ should take some notice of it which
] do now by reafiirming the essential
truth OF the statement ! made to you
and which you repeated in the senate.
Much as | regret that the hasty action
of Senator Lodge and the president
has forced an issue between the pres
ident and myself. the extreme lam
guage he used makes such issue UNI
ayoidable and | cannot shrink from
or evade II although | cannot use to-
ward the chief executive Of the nation
language like his own. Upon our re-
spective statements | submit the con-
troversy with confidence TO the judy
ment Of those who know me-
PRESIDENTS IMPULsIVENESs.
For those who do not know me there
is fortunately circumstantial evidence
of high order which shows that the
president 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 impulslyeness
has led him into serious error upon
point OF no Importance IN Itself but
only az affecting his attack upon mo.
| give you further statement, as fol-
lows:
PRESIDENT SUMMONED HIM.
prior to March 81, had not seen
the president for long time. did
not go to the White House as a repre-
sentative of Senator Tillman solely be-
cause the president summoned me there
by the letter from Mr.. Leob. and !
waited for him 10 express his object
II was Enthusiastically stated 10 be to get
in communication with Mr.. Tillman,
who had the rate bill in charge. and
other Democrats Of the senate for the
purpose Of securing the adoption in the
railroad rate bill Of court review
clause limiting the inquiry 10 the ques-
ton whether the commission had ex-
ceeded its authority or had violated the
constitutional rights Of the carrier.
NAMED THREE SENATORS.
81 knew and he knew that it was
impossible for him TO open confer
ences with Mr.. Tillman unless he was
fully satisfied mat the president had
absolutely given mp all Intention OF
coming To an agreement with the sem
ators who had been making the contest
for an unlimited court review and
In stating his Object he said 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 review and he used as nearly
as can recollect the language given in
my statement repeated by Mr.. TillmeI.
THE CONVERSATION,
"The conversation included the un-
derstanding which he had that day
reached with Senators Long and Ali
son, the fact that not over one third
of the Republican senator's could be
relied on to vote for the limited court
review and that It was vital that tho
support of nearly all the Democrats
should be obtained
TILLMAN D1STRUSTFuL,
when. an hour later visited Mr..
Tillman and told him my mission from
the president ! found him distrust-
ful and suspicious He questioned mo
closely as To what the president had
said and related 10 him as accurately
as | could the statement made by tho
president to me and I convinced him
that the president had ceased TO hope
for compromise With the senator's
named and the other advocates of an
unlimited court review. When salts
fled that this vas the case he readily
consented to- cooperate with the prcsi-
dent and said that hc would sec Sena-
tor Bailey aud report To me the result
which he did. saying there would be
perfect accord upon the limitation of
the right Of review II carried forward
In connection with limitation OF the
right TO issue eSparte injunctions.
MOODY COMES IN.