The herald., 1898-04-08

| '"The gentleman from Ohio GentZ), said
F., he had predicted long speech upon a
statement of facts made by himself. He
declares that no message came from Gen
eral Lee yesterday, that it was fake re-
port, that 1t was false, given out for cor
rupt purpose by the president to affect the
| stock market. Every particle of this state
ment Is without qualification, absolutely
| false. applause on the Republican side.)
call upon the distinguished gentleman
from Kentucky Derry, member of the
| foreign affairs committee, to say whether
tell the truth or not, when say that
such dispatch was received from Cen
eral Lee and was read by him. There is
the answer That is the character of the
sort Of assaults that are being made on
American honor and the integrity of the
president. Not only did the dispatch come
on yesterday, but it came the day before,
and appealed to the president of the United
States. / read the telegram, and there
are twenty men on this floor now that read
the telegram, both Democrats and Repub-
licans. 1t was read to the distinguished
members of the foreign relations commit
tee of the senate, and each and every one
of them without qualification coincided
with the policy of the president not to
send the message in here at that time.
I say again that only a most earnest and
urgent protest came from General Lee. Is
General Lee at one of the tickers ?
daughter on the Republican side.) Some
men can ascribe corrupt motives to other
men; how they ever became educated to
tho idea that all men are corrupt, leave
to your Imagination"
Mr.. Lentz-If you knew this day before
yesterday why did you let the house and
galleries fill up with people and sit here
and say nothing about it, while Wall street
was speculating on it?
| Grosvenor-Wall street was not speculate
| ing on it. That story was as false as the
| other. 1 say that the president intended to
disregard Lees message of Tuesday and
| had his message signed and sealed and
ready to be transmitted to both houses yes
| terday morning, when the final protest in
| the name of humanity came AS / have
said, 1t was read before the committees of
the two houses, and, without q dissenting
voice, they advised the president against
| sending it here. Now, let me answer an
| other proposition. He has made garbled
statement here. He made statement that
| the representatives of the great powers in
CHlS Guy nave lOudy Cdlleu upon Lie pres
| ident and asked him to delay. I stated
| that that was false. have the statement
here in my hand, and there is not one word
said about delay. What the gentleman did
not read is the response in which he put an
end, without qualification, to all sugges-
tions of delay or Interference in any way
whatever Now, the gentleman is arraign-
ing the president of the United States. He
is sending a message to the enemy, show
| ing them that here in the midst of this
house is a man who will charge the pres
\ ident of the United States with a corrupt
purpose, with q corrupt Intention with
attempting to stop the progress of the
great march of patriotism. There is no
word of delay in all the language which
has been used in this connection.
After prolonged wrangle over the ques-
tion Of an extension Of time Grosvenor
proceeded:
II cali the attention of the gentleman
and Of the house to the statement he made
| that this was another stock jobbing per
formance, and that there was another pur-
pose of delay In this declaration from the
ambassadors of the great powers, SO that
| Wall street would run upward hold in
my hand the statement that immediately
, upon the publication OF the statement in
| the city of New ork the market became
very weAh and run clear down upon every