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Show WASHINGTON. May J8,-Senator Bailey yesterday took the 1 floor" in the Senate to make a further explanation et his connection con-nection with ths efforts to secure an understanding un-derstanding between . the .President and the Democratic Senators on the railroad rats bill, basing his statement on articles in ths Chicago Tribune and ths New York Tribune charging him with bad faith in that connection and - giving ex-Senator Chandler as authority, for that statement. He had read a series of Jotters sad memoranda, mem-oranda, . beginning with aroquMt from himself to the former Senator for a copy of any statement that he might have ww lowasr ssr cw &r. v mmt br ma to the WtitU Bona on the mora-K mora-K f W2dir. April U. I think Uj.- Is dmted April 11. I S14 not thrln rr the Prudent Sr auraoe. aa ta your atttte u to the Sn bMw; IW Sotil rm and did aot ll authorted i by anrthlng Mr. TUlinaa bad Un Mid U give any aaauranee to your name. . It laT I w Mr. Tillman and tallwd wltn him folly and b. than WJ m. thatwl-thr thatwl-thr ha nor yourself wara antarlng toto fames with the railroad 8;aadatylaaw th Praaldant and told Mm what Mr. Till man had aald and that ba aaad hare aa appraban-toa appraban-toa on tha nbjact. I anoloa to vou ooplas from my diary. April Is I aaw Ur. Moody; and aaala on tha 14th, and arrancad wits aim to sm Mr, TUlman and yooraau on tba neat day, Sunday tha uth. Toora o-uly, . Then followed the memorandum to Seo-rstary Seo-rstary Loeb and that waa accompanied by an extract from Mr. Chandler's diary. The memorandum waa aa follows: Tha sne of tha railroad Banatom la to sun-port sun-port Ballade -amandmant and Induoe aim to aTa to broad right of eourt rarlaw. What that Is to ba is not eartaln. bnt the nrlnelpal eblaet Is to "baat aim" (meaning tha Praaldant). Praal-dant). Mr. TUlman. bowarar. oonaidars bim-aalf bim-aalf aa acting with tha Praaldant to Paaa ta rarlaw elauaa with tha minimum amount of eourt power, and will not eater lot any such fame, - The diary extract reads: ' , Diary. April 11. At t:U P. m. saw Senator Tillman at tha Colonial, about railroad rate tetialatlon. At : at Whlta How saw Praaldant Praa-ldant Rooarralt alona upatalra Talkad of railroad rail-road rataa and many othar thlnga for more than aa hour. Ha waa vary fTflou- f about 1:N to Colonial. . with TUlman until "proceeding with his remarks. Mr. Bailey said that the New York Tribune had put the matter somewhat differently from yesterday's presentation, thus "modifying ths lie." He quoted an article arti-cle In which it was stated that .copies ioJ Mr Chandler's letter to the PreeMent had been in circulation among Democratlo Senators, Co this statement Mr. Bailey gave special attention, saying that be had made inquiry sufficient to assure hira that not one of the Democratic Senators had ever seen. the document, much leas cirou- "ldld not yesterday know 'that any . Senator on the Republican, side had seen jt, but I am .enabled to say now that on yesterday. the President showed it to one of them sl also, to a member, of the House, and if this statement Is denied I- .Cto.n,2Sed that if Mr. Chandler had never spoken another word there was not a sylUbla In his memorandum concerning con-cerning hlmaelf to justlftr the-statetnant tha he-- (Chandler) had";. Impugned his-IBeiley's) his-IBeiley's) good faith. He does not; say that I win playing a game." .be went .on., JCbut that others were. X will say that the game was played to batch others and very'euccesefufly ? '. - j;-" rurtbor construing the memorandum, he called attention to tha fact that effort was to "beat the President." "With that." he added. "I ought to hsve sympathy? sympa-thy? but s the time 1 did not." He then .called attention to the icl that upon the President's authority Mr. Changer's veracity had, been challenged in the Senate Sen-ate by Mr. Lodge and naked: "In view of thai fact, does it lie In the moutha of those people to sawall ms with a state EE? rEu 'aTa VwTr SradrJSd not" ider this memorandum an Impeachment of my good faith. The proof of that U that, with the memorandum before him, within with-in three days he aaked me to confer with hia Attorney-General on thia vital question. ques-tion. It is T inconceivable that the President, Presi-dent, with a suspicion of my integrity in his mind, would permit his Attorney-General to transmit to sne an amendment Intended In-tended to be Incorporated In this great measure, I have no words to express imv, opinion of those who would, treat with those whom they suspeot of treachery, and only traitors would do It" Senator Bailey then read briefly from .i . iw r.t Vi Prilcaa-a Tribune a eorre- ipondent to his Speech of dsnunsiatlon inade yesterday, and continuing, salds - "My attack does not -seem to have disturbed dis-turbed the correspondent of that paper, because he says he Was overlooked In my iTSfck on the 'President, Perhaps be re-nirds re-nirds it as being overlooked to be called an unqualified, malicious liar. He says he bas not the Chandler . memorandum be-fnra be-fnra him. but he attempts to quote from ItNow; where did he see it f I did not ahow It to bim.- Kx-Senator Chandler did nolIhoV It t ohlrn. It U addraad to Mr tiib the President's secretary. I will vmlvs it to the country and the Senate to y who furnished blm his information ThTfas'senator spoke of his own faiiUs. admitting that he has at times lust been called arbitrary, dictatorial. fntDeraU In speech aad rash, but he oS2red Tthat he had never intentionally KSfVitn an injustice, and that he had Sever done a wrone without making SToaretlon when the fault waa called to hiaiioUce He said that no man ever before be-fore had imputed to him a lack of candor; man had ever charged him with double AeaUns andTcould not do so now and ecToa his denunciation. Across the browof ouch a man." be said, he would mrt the "brand of liar, so that all men key know him and shun him." No one else spoke on the subject Durv ins the entire recall there was intense la. Srest to the Senate and the galleriea Ooo-antloB of the rate bill was then re- timed. ' ..-'''.- |
