The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-13
COMES AGAIN THE
M'KIALEY ORACLE,
(contInued FROM Pace b

army and navy in its hands to go over
and punish the Cubans, after three
years of the most heroic fighting for
liberty that any people ever made on
the face of the earth. 1 say it is an
outrage: il is a stencil in the nostriis
of every decent American. We shall
see whether the majority side of this
house can be whipped into such pol
icy as that"
MI Hepburn (Rep., la jumped to
his feet as Mr.. Lentz sat down.
HEPBURN wAXED WROTH.
'.Mr. chairman" he began, some
times misstatement is so gross that It
reaches the dignity of falsehood. and
falsehood is so gross that it becomes
mendacity, and mendacity so foul that
it becomes scoundrelism. l say that the
president has never said that he de-
sires the use of the army and navy at
the hands of congress in order TO es-
tablish Spanish supremacy on the ISL
and of Cuba. tApplause.)
That is not true. There is no man
who can with an honest heart and with
an honest purpose read this message OF
the president and arrive at any conclu-
sion of that character. The president
whole argument leads up to the propo-
sition that the conduct of Spain on that
island. during 80 years of misrule. %
has brought about such condition
that it is now intolerable and insup-
portable. and must cease. That is the
language of the president. He asks the
use of the army and navy TO put
stop to that intolerable and INSURER
able condition. applause on the Re
publican side) That is the argument
The second meeting of the gentlemen
that message teaches us that is his
purpose. and yet gentlemen say, in
view of all the language he has used,
in view of the argument he has made
in reciting the infamous and dsspotlc
conduct that he has called to our at
tention. that it is the intention OF the
president TO become the ally OF the
Spaniards l say that there is no word
in that whole message that justifies
any honorable man in making de-
claration of that kind upon this floor
We are going there to fight Spain we
are going there to establish stable and
permanent government. What does
that mean?
THE PRESIDENT SAYS"
Here we have 50 years of Spanish
government. not stable. not permanent,
except in the villainy of its outrages-
The character of outrage and villainy
which has become insufferable should
be suffered no longer, the president
says, creating such an emergency as
compels us to violate the otherwise
friendly relations that we ought to nave
and go to the extreme of war in bring
ing an end to these insufferable condl-
tions produced through the acts of
Spain And yet, the gentleman dares
to stand here and say that that paper
advocates the use of the army and the
navy, the placing of the whole military
power of the country, in the hands of
the president. in order that he may go
there TO perpetuate that which he re-
success, AUD Lang Syne." Both are
SAYS is now uncomfortable. He wants
a stable and permanent republican gov
eminent Does that mean Spanish rule?
Has any man the right to make that ar
gument?"
WHY NOT SAY IT?
Mr.. Lentz-Does he say republican
government?
Mr.. Hepburn-No, he does not say
that. but he supposed that you knew
something about the history of this
country. applause on Republican side.)
Mr.. Lentz-I do.
Mr. Maguire-And we know something
about the history of this administration
Mr. Hepburn-He supposed that you
know something about the aspirations of
American statesmen. that you knew
something about the declaration tnat
by every branch of this government
with reference to the character OF gov
eminent that should be formed on this
hemisphere. Applause on Republican
side.)
COMES NOW GROSVENOR.
Mr.. Grosvenor. of Ohio. took the floor.
Il am going to refer now to only one
thing that the gentleman from Ohio (Mr.
Lentz) has said on this particular oc-
casion." said he, and | DO not DO Il
upon this occasion The time is coming
when the gentlemen will have full OPP
portunity to assail the president of the
United States. to send their bitterness
and their opposition across the waters to
our enemies. The gentleman shall have
a fullf opportunity TO abuse his own con-
stituents at home for any conservative
expressions which they may have made
the telegraph or the mail, and
he shall have that opportunity. unaffected
by answers of mine. l wish here simply
the power TO use the army and
the navy for the purpose OF establishing
in the island of Cuba an Independent gov
Mr.. Lsntz-why did he not say so?
Mr. Grosvenor-Will my friend from
Ohio try for minute to keep his mouth
Mr.. Cannon-oh. that is impossible
applause and laughter on the Republican
side.)
THIS SENTENCE.
Mr.. Hanley Dem. DELHI want to
know what you understand the president |
to mean by this sentence in his message, |
1T involves, however. hostile constraint |
upon both the parties to the contest, as |
well to enforce a truce to guide the |
eventual settlement"
Mr.. Grosvenor-You had better go and |
ask the president. daughter and ap-
plause on the Republican side)
Mr.. Gaines-Don't you think you had |
better go and see Hanna? (Derisive jeers |
on the Republican side.)
Mr.. Grosvenor-There comes in an |
other exhibition Qaughter) Now let !
me restate my proposition. 1 state that |
the president of the United States has |
asked for the use of the army and navy |
to establish on the island of Cuba an |
so in the plainest kind of English Ian |
guage. CCries of ''Where?" on the Demo- |
cratic side) After a great deal of tribu- |
Iation / am going to give the gentlemen |
on the other side a demonstration of |
every statement which | make. You will |
find this language used by the president |
and / will leave il to the most acute |
analytical mind on the other side to say |
If that is not proposition to establish |
on the island of Cuba a government in
dependent of Spain. (Reading from the |
message) In view of these facts. and of |
these considerations. | ask congress to /
authorize and empower the president TO !
take measures to secure a full and final /
government of Spain and thu people OF |
Cuba and to secure in the island the es-
adjustment of a stable government cap
able of maintaining order and observing
is international obligations"
ToRTUoUs EXPLANATION.
Now, 1 ask any gentleman on the other
side to tell me how a government on an
sland of any country controlled by a
foreign country, as Cuba now Is can
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