| Show HO P T KD SAM sm A i n of OUTLAWS 1 th three ree hundred pul bula a I 1 I 1 janes hiding in in mountains manila may 13 superintendent of schools hoover ot of Samar and several native officials of that island have arrived here to rest on their way to baglio province of Be nguet the summer in capital to governor ide mr hoover says that 95 per cent of natives of samar aro are anxious for the extermination of the fanatics and the establishment of absolute peace the native officials ho he says are organizing bands of volunteers who are scouring the mountains guarding trails and capturing or killing hilling outlaws it Is I 1 estimated three hundred Pula janes still remain in the mountains governor curry of samar has proposed to turn the Pu lajane districts over to the federal authorities for the establishment of martial law and the extermination of the fanatics and general wood agreeing to place two regiments assisted by naval gunboats gun boats in the island and the adjacent waters in order to guard against the outlaws escaping to neighboring islands governor general ida has reached no decision in the matter the Pula jano leader is 64 years old and has been in the mountains for forty years der standing as to toa a limited court review had been reached with senator long and others and ho he told me that the president wished to get into communication muni catlon cation with avith the democrats and would shortly s ask me to como come and see sec him while he was talking a messenger boy arrived with a letter to me from mr loeb as follows the white house washington march 31 1900 1 my ly dear senator chandler tho the president pres ident requests me to say that ho 0 would bo be glad to have you yon y ou c ome come to the white house ouse to seo see him at tonight will you please let hearer bearer know whether you can come very truly yours WILLIAM LOEB JR P secretary to the president hon W E H chandler street 1 I told the th messenger I 1 would bo be there t re 9 wanted Demo democrats craft help at the time and place appointed the president said to me that he wished through me to get into communication with mr air tillman mr tr bailey and other democratic senators lie ho stated his purpose slowly and carefully and in exact substance his statement was this that he had reached the con conference of that day clay in ill which an un elusion 1 ajon r that the best plan for railroad rate legislation was to expressly grant a court review but to distinctly limit it to to points first an inquiry whether the interstate commerce commission had exceeded its authority and second an inquiry whether the constitutional rights of the carrier had been violated he said that he had been much troubled trouble 4 by the advocacy of an unlimited court review by some of the lawyers of the senate naming senators knox spooner and foraker Far aler as trying to injure or defeat the bill by ingenious constitutional arguments but that he had come to a co complete M pleto disagreement with them lie he made this point emphatic by repetition said eald that he would go this far and no farther and that his hiis decision would he be unalterable ile he declared that he wished to ascertain whether there could bs be united action in the senate among the friends of the bill so that it could be surely passed but without injurious amendments and lie ho named various republican senators who he thought j were true friends of the bill but said that it would take lake nearly all the democrats to carry the limitation and defeat all db noxIous provisions wanted sane restriction after the president had made his statement I 1 replied that I 1 had reason to believe that most of the democrats in ili the senate would sustain ills his limitation of the court powers but that I 1 was sure that mr bailey and mr air tillman would insist upon coupling with the limitation some restriction upon the power of the courts to issue injunctions against the orders of the commission before I 1 had finished my statement on this point the president interrupted me saying that I 1 need not explain further because he was warmly in favor of some such restriction that evening I 1 saw mr tillman and told him what had bad occurred senator tillmans statement in the senate yesterday was the principal topic of discus discussion siv in official circles today tillmans many callers the senator had a number of callers at his apartments with whom he talked freely about the matter among whom wore were senator dailey bailey and ex senator handler chandler C mr chandler aisi been urged by y some of his friends to make public tl a over his own signa sign a 1 ture regarding the denial by senator lodge of tho accuracy of the presidents remarks in reference to senators spooner knox and foraker ile he declined however to bo be further brought into the controversy at this time saying lie he would let tile the matter for the present rest on the statement made public by mr tillman it was with mr chandlers chandless Chand lers consent that the portion of his written statement to senator tillman of his conferences feren ces with the president was made public attorney general moody whose participation in the rate bill conference was referred to by mr air tillman was in new york today ho he Is expected back in washington tomorrow senator clodgo called at the white house this evening and took dinner with the president subsequently secretaries ret aries fes root and taft arrived at the white house and joined the president and senator lodge 9 senator lodge and secretaries taft and root renja remained ined with the president until late at night mono aone of the parties present would discuss the visit and all of them declined to answer answer any questions regarding the subject under discussion |
