Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-14
THE ATTACKS, ]. !
ON ROOSEVELT
Senator Bailey Calls President
Man Of Clay, Not IrOn" --Gives
TiIIman Lie by Telephone.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE vOlca-
no of wrath which has been smoking
| and emitting noxious odors ever since
it became obvious that Republican har-
! mony would rob the minority of that
political capital which it had hoped to
gain from the railway rate legislation
broke loose in the senate. Party lead
ers threw off all restraint and gave
full vent to their untrammeled ndigna-
ton, INDUCING in a flood Of abuse and
invective against the president, Sena-
tor Bailey finally shouting out:
'Let us have no more talk IN the
senate and in the country about tnls
iron man. He is clay and very COM
mon clay at that"
Official Washington, shaken to It's
depths by the presidents lie, given
through Senator Lodge, to the state
ment made by Senator I1llinan that
Mr.. Roosevelt had named senators
Foraker, Spooner and Knox as enemies
of the rate bill, was further astounded
by the declaration of former senator
Chandler that Mr.. Tillman's statement
was absolutely correct.
Senator Tillman himself hurled a
bombshell by producing a statement
signed by Mr.. Chandler recounting in
detail what had taken place at the
White House conference between him
self and the president.
After hearing Mr.. Tillman, Senator
Lodge. who Immediately consulted the
president by telephone, quickly in
formed the senate that President
Roosevelt had pronounced the asser-
ton to be ian unqualified f~alsehood."
Mr.. Lodge further quoted the president
as having expressed sentiments in di-
rect, opposition to those attributed to
him by Mr.. Tillman on the alleged au-
thority of ex-senator Chandler and as
having declared himself to be heartily
in favor of the Spooner amendment.
Mr.. Chandler when interviewed said:
81 realize what it means to me at the
close of my life to be branded by the
president of the United States as a
deliberate and unqualified falsifier. l
shall not rest under the imputation.
The president has, l believe, acted on
impulse"
During the day the senate adopted
the four remaining amendments con-
tanned in the Allison compromise and
voted down several propositions and
+ amendments offered, apparently for
| the mere purpose of delaying the bill
| or of advertising their respective au-
| thors.
In one of the bitterest attacks that
has been made upon President Roose-
welt during the debate Cd the railroad
rate bill Senator Bailey charged that
the executive had surrendered his posi-
| ton advocating IAN effective measure
and had abandoned his demands for
tariff revision. The Texas senator
| charged that the presidents arraign-
ment of trusts had been made after his
| election and that before that time he
had been as ''silent as the grave" upon
the subject of regulating the railroads.
The speech was in reply to Senator
| Carter, who had defended the presi-
dent against criticism, saying that no
one could charge him with cowardicG.
In the course of his remarks Senator
Carter referred to the Democratic par
ty as a party of negation and nothing
more. He declared that the party had
been frightened into a chill at the
prospect of action. He charged that
neither Senators Bailey nor Rayner in
all their congressional career had done
anything to secure effective railroad
rate legislation.
Senator Lodge dined at the White
House last night with the president,
Subsequently Secretaries Root and
Taft arrived at the White House and
joined the president and Senator Lodge