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wrr'f.ill Tr - "..,)(.' n-. v ;; I V The Commoner, 14 VOLUME 0, NUMBER 1$ ' u w i i . 1?. i'i i'T ; ? .M K i ' 4 i -I !-' E Senator Chandler's Statement Former Senator Chandler addressed to Senator Tillman the following lot- ' 'ter, by way of reply to the president's charge that the statement attributed to Senator Chandler was "a dellber- . at and unqualified falsehood:" "My Dear Mr. Tillman: As the telephonic denial by President Roose velt sent to the senate through Sen ator Lodge remains in the Congress ional Record of May 12, it seems to me that I should take some notice of it, 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 be tween the president and myself, the extreme language he used makes such issue unavoidable, and I can not shrink from or evade it, although I can not use toward the chief executive of the nation language like his own. Upon our respective statements I submit the controversy with confidence to the judgment of those who know me. "For those who do not know me there is fortunately circumstantial ev idence of a high order which shows that the president could not nave omitted to make in substance the statement which he denies. Nor could he have then made the whole statement which he now substitutes. His impulsiveness has led him Into serious error upon a point of no im portance in itself, but only as affecting his attack upon me. I give you a further statement, as follows: "Prior to March 31 I had not seen the president for a long time. I did no't go to the white house as a rep resentative of Senator Tillman, but soleJLy because the president summon- tu. me tnere oy tne letter irom Mr. Loeb, and I waited for him to express his object. It was unmistakably stated to be a communication with Mr. Till man, who had the rate bill in charge, and other democrats of the senate for his statements to Mr. Tillman? Is the purpose of securing the adoption ft possible that I went directly that in the railroad rate bill of a court night to Senator Tillman at the Co- whother as early as March 31 does not appear. But this is certain, that if the president had on that night told me that he cordially approved of it, and I had so reported to Mr. Tillman, there would have ensued no confer ence looking to co-operation; there fore, the president as to that amend ment had in mind a conversation at some other time, or with some other person. "It should also be borne in mind that the report I made to Mr. Tillman of the president's conversation is com paratively harmless and inoffensive. Here it is: 'He said that he had been much troubled by the advocacy of an unlimited court review by some of the lawyers of the senate, naming Sen ators Knox, Spooner' and Foraker as trying to injure or defeat the bill by ingenious . constitutional arguments; but that he had come to a complete disagreement with them. "What is there in the above .words that is untrue or should give of fense to the senators named? They were the great constitutional lawyers of the senate, making ingenious argu ments against any limitation of court review, and they were troublesome and likely to be troublesome in an at tempt to carry the Long-Moody limi tation through the senate by the votes of twenty-five or more democrats and twenty or less republican senators. "What harm was there In the presi dent's saying that he had come to a final disagreement with them on the day when he had held a white house conference with a view of uniting democratic and republican forces in carrying a limitation of court review then and there agreed upon? He could say it in or out of their presence with out giving offense to them. Nor was it a very strong expression to say that ural and essential that the president they were trying to Injure or defeat should have satisfied me that he had the bill by ingenious constitutional ar guments. It did not mean that they wene trying to defeat the bill if it could be amended to meet their views. Mr. Knox had declared it xo be unconstitutional unless amended, and that was the general position of the opponents of limited court review which led the president on that day to conclude it would be best to expressly view, and he used, as nearly as I can recollect, the language given in my statement repeated by Mr. Tillman. "The conversation included the un derstanding which he had that day reached with Senators Long and Al lison; 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. "When, an hour later, I visited Mr. Tillman and told him 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 accurate ly as I could the statement made by the president to me, and I convinced him that the president had cea'sed to hope for compromise with the sen ators named and the other advocates of an unlimited court review. When satisfied that this was the case he readily consented to operate with the president, and said that "he would see Senator Bailey and report to me the result, which he did, saying there would be perfect accord upon the limi tation of the right of review if carried forward in connection with a limita tion of the right to issue exparte in junctions. "The conferences thus begun were, on the 15tb, at my suggestion, trans ferred to Attorney General Moody and at once resulted in an understanding that 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 1G by Mr. Moody and later perfected by Messrs. Moody, Tillman and Bailey. Was it not nat- finally separated upon the question of the court review from the senators who were the principal opponents of any limitation of that review which they believed would be unconstitu tional and that I should have repeated "TWICE AS WORTHY" Senator Scott, of West Virginia, had a candidate for office in his state and pushed him vigorously at the White House. The opponents of Scott's man dug up the fact that he was not so exemplary a citizen as he might be, and had a record. The president couldn't think of-appointing such a man -and told Scott so. Later the president sent in the nomination of Ben Daniels, of Ari zona, and wrote the famous letter excusing Daniels for having been in the penitentiary for stealing a mule. Scott went to the White House and said: "Mr President, you refused to appoint my man, but it seems to me that you did it without proper inves tigation. You . have underestimated his worth and qualifications." "How so?'? asked the president. "Why, you have nominated Ben Daniels. All well and good, but my man is twice as worthy as your man. Daniels was in the penitentiary only once and my man was in twice." New York World. . . frrnnf the InriRfltaMnn tn rnvlnw hut- ... ., . . 1.1. . ... . -T ' Z. . " 1 " " "" - ...., ...w tne question wuetuur uie coiiinussiou a deliberate and unquaimed falsehood? had exceeded Its authority or had vlo lated the constitutional rights of the carrier. "I know and ho knew that it was impossible for him to open conference with Mr. Tillman unless he was fully satisfied that the president had abso lutely given up all Intention of coming to an agreement with the senators who hnd been making the contest for an unlimited court review, and in stating his object he said that he had parted from them finally, naming Sen , ator Knox, Foraker and Spooner as the senators who had made the argu ments in the senate to sustain that Epilepsy can be i cured. To those afflicted this conveys nwondorful message. 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"Consider next the statement which the president says he thinks he made instead of the one narrated by me. Senator Foraker, he says, was not mentioned but all that was said i regard to them was that the president did not agree with a portion of Sen ator Knox's proposed amendment, but that he thought that he had made a strong argument for asserting affirma tively the jurisdiction or authority of the court, and as to Senator Spooner. that his name was only mentioned by him to express a cordial approval of Senator Spooner's amendment. "This Spooner amendment was not offered in the senate until May 10. but I learned that it had been in ex- to rigidly limit it to the two objects named. The only harm that I can see that has come in the whole busi ness was the abandonment of any at tempt to carry that limitation of the review, without any previous notice to Senators Tillman and Bailey. "On the whole, perhaps, I ought to consider myself fortunate. If the old imperialist days had been fully revived at the white house, one whom I con sider the best of friends. Senator Lodge, upon demand would have cut off my head and taken It to President Roosevelt on a charger, and I should' have spoken no more. Now, at least, I have left the power of speech. But I shall never use it again as a mis sionary from President Roosevelt to THE TOWER A DRt-AM BUILT The shot tower was very high. At the top, in the center, was a great perforated plate, a giant colander, and a hundred feet below a vast tank of cold water glimmered. "Here she goes," said the foreman. He dumped a huge ladleful.of molten lead into the colander. It fell in a fine rain through the perforations. Down be low there was a splash, splash, splash, and in the tank lay many pounds of Binder T w i n e Lowest Prlcos. Gunrantcod Qual ity. Prompt Shlpraonta. Prioo Kuarantcod. Send cor list show inn pricoof Binder Tvrlnodolirorod at 225 prominont towns. 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