Show B BLAM LA M ON CR EIf Chicago Tribu Correspondent At Attempts Attempts tempts to Explain I 1 Chicago May Tribune in tile tho thoI I morning will publish the following from I Its Washington correspond correspondent cut ent In answer to the attack made upon hIt I veracity by Senator afley of Texas W D C May the theIon Hon Ion Joseph W Bailey y senator from Texas struck at tile the presIdent of the United St States t s Over v t thy my humble sh shOulders rs for th that t Is all be did on the floor Of f th the senat today h he apparently was unaware that th tta tM vid nc In beth In the Official COngressional and nd In th the form Of f written memorandum by former Senator William E Chandler absolutely proving that he was an object or of suspIcion to the real friends t f fh the presIdents d U Rests on Poor Basis This Is not to say that Mr Bailey Baney de deserved served the but that lila his me U tives s and hI a ts tO In t the e D mo r tic con conferences in the Dem caucuses on the floor of the senate and in conference between Mr Tillman and Moody and through Mr Chandler with the president gave rise to the suspicion that he was not true to tHe tiie principals or of r railroad rate legislation n is clear cOar from the record Itself and c cannot be successfully denied Mr BaiJ Bailey y may b be as Inn Innocent oe t as a 8 b b bO unborn and h hO says he is but the sus ens pl lons did exist the they have existed for w eks they have been talked of in th the clOak rooms of the senate on the ts at t th thO White H HOuse use and elsewhere They h be been n mentioned mentIon d in many newspapers pore pers and it if they havO hav not been justified Mr Bailey Is unfortunate and his char aeter should be r from aspersion Ch Chandler Gets the Blame Of f all let me qu quOte f i E Chandler f rm a een en tor or from N New w Hampshire now the pr sd t of tile Sp Spanish claIms commission He Is the personal friend nd or of Senator TUrman he be was the intermediary between Tillman Tiliman and the president r of the two originated the negotiations Chandler Chandle C or r conducted them It was his evi desee denee which has twice been cited b by Mr Tillman Tiliman on the floor of the senate and it itis itIs is Chandler who in effect has given tile the thelie lIe direct to the president SIn In the dispatch sent by me on Mon Monday Monday day to tile the TrIbune which aroused such sucha a temp tempest St in the senate this afternoon and which provoked Senator Bailey Balley to declare it to be a malicious lie and to in insinuate insinuate sinuate It was directly Inspired by the president himself I stated facts on the authority of Chandler hImself It was he who conveyed to the White House the in intimation that Bailey was a traitor and if the Texas senator has anyone any one to blame it must b be friend William E Chandler An Alleged Chandler Memora dum UIn In the very outset of the neg he be WAS conducting Chandler pre prepared prepared pared and left at the White a writ TIt written ten memorandum m for the ben benefit of the pre president jd nt I have not the text of that memorandum before me but quoting quotin from memory it says The railroad senators want the BaIley amendment but Tillman Tiliman is for the presidents court review amend amendment ment and will block their game This is nearly a literal quotation but no one GOuld see text proBably without t the e permission of the president The uThe dispatch I sent to the Tribune was telegraphed hed on my own aut authority and without the knowledge or consent of th the president against whom Balle Bailey trained his Batteries toda today and not against me meI meI I have not seen the president since the dispatch was written and I have not asked him JUm for the text of this memo memorandum memorandum of William E Chandler because the text could at best add only a few words to the quotation I have Claims Other information r I kno know I am Correct in the statement that during the course of the negotiations William E Chandler who since inee has the president of falsehood made madean an oral report either to the president himself or to someone representing him which was much more specific During this talk Chandler in explaining the dir dif difficulties in securing united action by the Democrats stated In so man many words that he be and Tillman were suspicious of Bailey believing he be was in an alliance with Al AI Aldrich and associating Uh ith the Standard Oil and railroad crow crowd In the tho senate but that Tillman ws w watching his maneuvers And expected to be able to present any evil effects ThOse These were the suspicions to which I alluded In the previous dispatch as b bIng bay bayIng Ing constantly existed and as basing in influenced Influenced the a administration b yond beyond aU all doubt In dropping the negotiations with TUlman Tiilman through Chandler and re renewing the efforts to unite the Republicans on a reasonable basis or of compromise |