Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-10


Cuban soil will be. as suggested by another.
the bleaching bones of women and chill
dren as the monumental evidence of the
humanitarian policy .nf this Republican
administration" - -a-----------
Further depression from the bill was in
dulged in by Mr.. Swanson, Democrat. OF
Virginia, who very vigorously dissented
from any inclination to turn the war into
one Of aggression. to end with this country
holding great colonial possessions. - %
The suggestion that Porto Rico and the
Philippines should be held. he declared, was
vicious. and not in accord witlAthe majority
sentiment of the country. He attacked
then the bond and other features ,of the
bill, notably the tobacco tax.
Mr.. Swanson took occasion to criticise
the administration in its conduct of the
war and particularly did he antagonize the
pending bill. as conducive to the interests
of monopolists and the very rich.
The speech brought from Mr.. Grosvenor,
Republican, of Ohio. an impassioned and
highly sensational response. Wrapt atten-
tion followed the first words OF his utter.
ance.
Had Sagasta. had Blanco. had Cervera
been given the opportunity to make a
speech On this occasion. they would not
have made so incendiary an appeal against
man from Virginia has uttered. l denounce
his unpatriotfc purposes. denounce his
unpatriotic and untruthful utterances."
Continuing. he was bitterly personal in
his declarations, charging the Virginia
member with being servile to narrow polit-
ical motives.
He would starve the soldiers of the
Union while he would prattle a little about
= liberty said Mr.. Grosvenor. and further
ulnFn h0 n m
frame speech containing more hostility
to the government and more antagonistic
to the people than the speech of the gen.
tleman from Virginia.
He referred to the Virginian as repre-
senting a "contestabIe dfstrict A laugh
was created in the midst OF the Ohioan's
terrific TRADE when he referred to the bat
tleship Oregon as having recently sunk a
Confederate torpedo boat"
He explained the mistake by the ''un-
patriotism of the gentleman from Vir-
ginia.'
=, Mr.. Swanson, in a two minutes reply,
said: THE only reason can give for the
unfair, unjust, unpatriotic and untrue per-
eonal attack upon me is that the speaker
is in such condition that he does not know
whether he is fighting the Confederate or
Spanish forces .....-...
He then proceeded with an eloquent de.
tense OF his district. Later Mr.. Swanson
again secured the floor and declared his
telief that the Ohio member would never
have made the .hrpt1a astach had he. ! been @
eober.''
Mr. -Grosvenor, being again recognized,
declared he had attacked the sentiment OF
the virgfnian's speech, and not the per-
sonality. Of the member. He denied hav-
ing referred to the latter's district as ''con-
temptible' and said he had used the WORD
..contestable." This declaration was greet
ed by Kisses and general protests from
Democratic anu curroborative expressions
from the RepubHcafis He Denounced Ar.
. Swanson's insinuation that he (Grosvenor)
was not sober, as q weapon which no nom
crable opponent would use" IN q debate
such as the one In progress. The Demo-
Gratis jcered and the Republicans applaud
ed the denuncyation. Ut
. Mr. Swanson, answering further the ref
erences to his district. said 1t was not SO
: wealthy nor populous as the Ohioan's, but
itives Courteous id debate
Following the Grosvener-Svanson epi-
sode. several 91nber5 .eASFssssdsshe ea mouse. use
fined. @ p on the lRepubiicani side. chiefly to
the coinage feature. e..
Mr.. HHi, Of Connecticut; aendeasSn, o. o.
New Eosk. and sAcAirln. OF, Tennessee
siSTe' %r. Hill declared he 'woIlld vote against
employing. as he believed, giving of some
new life to a dead issue, but the other Re-
publicans who addressed the house con-
tended that It would affect no mo more Ethan than
of silver coinase and was not open to seri-
'The Vote on the conference report was
taken at II o'clock. resulting: Yeas. ia;
At Has p m. the house adjourned.