Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-01
FOR PEACE.
Johnson Of Indiana Once More
Gives an Exhibition Of His
Moral Courage.
1IERED AT FROM THE FLOOR,

And Kissed At from the Gallery He Paints
tie Horrors of War and Urges Congress
to Let the President Alone-Lewis
Thinks the President Has sToo Much
johnson" N~ow-Baiiey Embraces an OPP
portunity and Grosvenor Is In the Em.
bracing Line Himself.
Washington, April 1.-For three hours
yesterday the packed galleries and ex-
cited members Of the house listened to
a passionate outburst of oratory on the
Cuban question, during which the in
tensity of feeling was alternately ma1'-
tested by cheers, jeers and his :.
Time and again the excited throngs IN
the galleries were admonished to be
silent, ard once at least it seemed as
IL a motion would be made to clear
them. The three speeches which stirred
the ~assemblage to its depths were made
by Grosvenor of Ohio, who it was as
sumed spoke for the administration,
and who practically pledged it to the
cause of free Cuba; Bailey, who an
nounced the Democratic position as for
free Cuba, without war if it could be
avoided, but with war IL necessary, and
Johnson Of Indiana, who spoke for
peace, declaring that It was our duty
to go to the extreme in magnanimity in
order to avoid the horrors of war.
Lewis Of Washington provoked the
speech Of Johnson, which aroused the
members and the galleries to the fever
pitch Of excitement.
ans Faces the Hissers.
Lewis a denounced the proposition
that Cuba purchase her freedom from
Spain, which-it was alleged-the ad-
m~inistration vas fostering. Then 1t was
that Johnson, in a brilliant speech,
pleaded for peace. He faced the storm
of Kisses which swept down upon him
from the galleries, like a Spartan, and
with passionate utterance adjured
members to pause before they plunged
the country into war, the evils of
which would follow after in endless
train. The house has had before illus
trations of Johnson's fearlessness. but
none so striking a. yesterday when he
espOused the unpopular cause and
pleaded to let diplomacy have it's way.
At the same time he gave It as his
opinion that If IN ultimatum had been
sent to Spain it meant war, as SPANS
pride would not permit her to humiliate
herself before the world. He eulogized
every influence that made for peace
and declared his belief that the Cuban
5unta would agree to pay 500. 900, 900 for
the independence of the island.
His Remarks to the Gallery.
He closed with the assertion that
there was a great conservative senti-
ment in the country for peace, if posi-
BILE. 1T is not the temporary applause
of the multitude that they seek: it is a
calm, cool, dispassionate judgment that
will be approved when the danger
has passed, when the war-cloud
has drifteda away. l appeal from the mis-
guided sentiment Of these persons; I
appeal from the jeers of the chamber
with which my remarks have been
greeted; / appeal from the Kisses Of the
gallery, which are not expected to do
the fighting; I appeal to the cool, calmer
judgment of my c%ountrymen, which will
pass upon my u%tterances when the
time for calm and respectful considera-
ton comes. That time will come as
suredly, and garlands will be placed
upon the brow of those who have been
willing to defer and have resisted the
efforts to thrust a war upon them"