The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-17

Washington, Nay Ex-senator Till
man today received from former Sen
ator William E. Chandler a statement
of his course as an Intermediary in the
negotiations between President ROose-
welt and Senators Tfllman and Bailey
on the railroad rate bin. The communi-
cation bears upon Senator Lodges de-
NAL for the president of Mr.. Chambers
statement quoting the president as say
ing he had lost confidence in Senators
Foraker. SpOOner and Knox, 1t was
offered in the senate by Senator Till
man and viii be printed in the Congress
sional Record.
MIR. Chambers Letter.
The text Of the statement follows:
My Dear Mr.. TiIlman-As the tele-
phonic denial by President Roosevelt
sent to the senate through Senator
Lodge remains in the Congressional
Record Of May u, it seems to me that
] should take some notice Of ii, 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
forced an issue between the president
and myself, the extreme language he
used makes it unavoidable and 1 can
cannot use toward the chief executive
of the nation language like his own.
Upon our respective statements I sub
NIT the controversy with confidence to
the judgment of those who know me.
Evidence in the Case.
For those who do not know me there
Is fortunately cirCUmstantiaI evidence
of a high order which shows that the
president could not have omitted to
make in substance the statement he
/ denies. Nor could he have then made
AThe whole statement which he now sub
Nsututes. His fmpulsiveness has led him
INTO serious error upon a point of no
Importance in itself but only as af-
fecting his attack upon me. 1 give to
you further statement as follows:
Summoned by the President.
Prior to March 81 I had not seen
the president for q long time I did not
go to the White House as a represen-
tative of Senator Tillman, but solely
because the president summoned me
there by the letter from Mr.. Loeb, and
7 waited for him to express his object
It was Enthusiastically stated TO be COM
munication with Mr.. Tillman, who had
the rate bill in charge, and other Dem
ocTats of the senate for the purpose
OF securing the adoption in the rail-
road rate bill of a court review clause
limiting the inquiry TO the question
whether the commission exceeded its
authority or had violated the consttu-
tional rights Of the carrier
Named the Three Senators.
'I knew and he knew that it was i'm
possible for him To open conference
with Mr.. TilIman unless he was fully
satisfied that the president had absO-
lutely given up all intention of coming
-s-H- Il.
had been making the contest for an I'M
limited court review, and in stating his
object he said that he had parted from
them finally, naming Senators Knox,
Foraker and SpOoHer as the senators
who had made the arguments in the
senate TO sustain that view and he used
as. nearly as I can reCOlleCt the Ian
guage given in my statement repeated
by Mr.. Tillman.
The conversation included the un-
Outstanding which he had that day
reached with Senator'S Long and ALI
son. the fact that not over One-third
of the Republican senators could be
relied on TO vote for the limited court
review and that it was vital that the
support Of nearly all the Democrats
should be obtained.
TilIman Was Suspicious.
when, an hour later. visited Mr.
I1Iiman and told nm my mission from
the president, I found him distrustful
and suspicious. He questioned me
closely as TO what the president had
said and I related to him as accurately
as I could the statement made by the
president to me and I convinced him
that the president had ceased to hope
for compromise with the senators
named and the other advocates of an
unlimited court review. When salts
fed that this was the case he readily
consented TO cooperate with the pres
ident, and said that he would see SEN
ator Bailey and report to me the re-
suit. which he did, saying there would
be perfect accord upon the limitation
of the right of review if carried for
ward in connection with a limitation OF
the right to issue ex parte injunctions.
Moody Called In.
The conferences thus begun were
6n April Is, at my suggestion, trans
fArred TO Attorney General Moody and
sd once resulted I'm an understanding
thar the effort could be made to limit
the right Of court review as stated IN
the Long amendment and in the paper
drawn up on April Is By Mr.. Moody and
later perfected by Messrs. Moody, Till
man and Bailey. Was il not natural
and essential that the president should
have satisfied me that he had finally
separated upon the question Of the
court review from the senators who
we're the principal opponents Of any
limitation Of that review which they
believed would be unconstitutional and