The age-herald., 1898-04-08
LENTz BRAvED
 REPUBLICAN STORM Told of Administrations Stock
 Gambling Schemes. DENIED LEE WAS IN DANGER Held Up to Ridicule FlimSy PrsteXt for
 Delaying Message. MARK HANNA COMPARED TO JUDAS If He Should Return. He Would Be Sent
 to the Senate. MIR. GRosvENoR,s POWERFUL REPLY In Language wrealxing With Wrath He De- fended Mckinley and Denied That He
 Had Been Moved to Delay
 by Base Motives.
If He Should Return He Would Be Sent
 to the Senate.
MIR. GRosvENoR,s POWERFUL REPLY


 of great excitement late this afternoon dur ing the debate on the bill for the reorgan- ization of the army.
 It was caused by MT. Lentz, an Ohio dem ocrat, who made a vicious assault on the administration, charging that the policy of delay was in the interest of stock jobbers in Wall street.
 He alleged Wall street was in possession of information that the message would not go in long before it was known at the capi- tol and Wall street had profited heavily by the advance in the price of stocks which resulted. He even charged that there was no warrant for the alarming statements about the situation in Havana which were made as justification for the delay of the message. MT. Lentz's speech created pro- found sensation and was met with an em- phatic reply from MT. Grosvenor, now gen. orally regarded as the administration spokesman on the floor.
 MT. Grosvenor not only indignantly de- nied that there was justification for the reports but held MT. Lentz up to scorn for alleging corrupt motives against the presi- dent. MT Lentz disclaimed this. but the irate friend of the president gave him no mercy. He was thoroughly aroused, charg- ing that the democrats were seeking po- litical advantages and paying his respects to John J. McCook and others. Before he concluded he expressed the opinion that war was as certain as we would live until next week unless it was averted by Spain
 Opposition to the Army Bill
 The debate on the army bill today de- yeloped more and more opposition. MT. Hull tried to save the bill by agreeing to strike out all it's provisions save the three battalion feature, but it was in the end re- committed 150-61.
 Immediately after the chaplain's prayer, which was for peace MT. Hull, chairman of the military affairs committee was recog- nized. Realizing the opposition to certain features of the army reorganization bill he stated that at the proper time he should move to strike out everything except the first two sections providing Tor the three battalion formation. The section providing for the expansion of the regular army in time of war to 104 900 would be striken out.
 Debate soon became general, and MT. Sulzer (dem.) of New York supported the bill as it was proposed to modify 1t, made vigorous pro-Cuban speech. If Cuban independence was recognized, he declared Cuba would soon be free. He declared that the majority in congress and the pres ident little understood the intense feeling or indignation among the people of the coun- try over the Maine affair and the delay in calling Spain to account.
 Oh, For an Andrew Jackson
 "Oh, for one day of Andrew Jackson in the White House." he concluded. He would say, Onward the fleet, forward the whole line and let the battle cry be, Cuba must be free"
 Mir Lentz (dem.) of Ohio, in the course of his remarks in opposition to the bill, de- clared there would be no war; that the '.peace party" which was speculating in stocks and bonds, would prevail. He said theref was an irreconciiable disparity be- &lx4 AIa nf | the presidents message and the dispatches from Havana. The message had been post pened because Lee could not get Americans out of Havana, yet the press dispatches said all was quiet in Havana and that Gen. eraI Lee said he had not been recalled. He denounced the telegrams he and other members were receiving urging them to stand by the president, and said they were dictated by financial greed MT. Lentz re- ferred to the note presented by the pow ers He reads from 1t the words about the hope for peace in the settlement of the ex- isting differences with Spain We have no differences with Spain," he cried. "We have 266 assassinated men which Spain must account for.'' Applause in the gall leries.)
 Nothing to Justify the Act
 "Yesterday," he said i've had this house filled, galleries overflowed and the capitol grounds were covered with people, all ex- pecting the presidents message, which might lead to war. But finally in the aft ernoon came word that message had been received from General Lee in Havana, in- dicating that he wanted time, and the message was delayed. Now, I don't be- lieve anybody had authority for the state- ment from the administration or any other | official that justified the rumor that pre- vailed here yesterday. A telegram by the | Associated Press yesterday said all was | quiet dn Havana, and that General Lee told | correspondent that he had not been re- l uuested to leave. The other newspapers | notably, the New York Journal, have simi- | lar dispatches. If these statements were | true, there was nothing to justify the | statement sent from the capitol yesterday. | I say there will be no war
 | Continuing, he charged that congress was being overwhelmed by telegrams "dic- tated by commercial greed" all of which i he declared emanated principally from Wall street and Lombard street. Tt is the old question of the almighty dollar," said he. Tt is the fall of stocks these gentlemen who control the administration fear more than war. They care nothing for the 266 assassinated Americans who went down in Havana harbor. but they care every thing for go cents, plus l cent. say, my friends. that we owe m aDology to Judas l, Ir,.nrios. ' say he oughf '' Q brought back and deified. If Judas lNi I ti.is age he would not have gone tu potters f1eld . and hanged himself. lie \. N.ou'd have been sent to the United States senate in due time, such Q specu!ator as he was. Laugh