The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-08

ate upon the stock market of this coun- try. Prove that and you will have vacancy in the presidential chair as quick as you can establish it. The charges have no truth"
 MT. Lentz-"I have already said to you that I deny that I said anything of the kind.
 MT. GrosVenor-"The administration set the story afloat in the interest of stock speculation" those are your ex- act words. You made a charge that ought to condemn the president to i'm peachment and Imprisonment. I have felt that it was terrible assault upon the honor and integrity of Spain, what we did on yesterday, but there was put up in the one hand the choice of insult to Spain, solemnly delivered by the president, an intimation to the whole world that there was danger of murder to American representatives in Cuba or there was put on the other side the danger itself. Suppose the message had gone to congress yesterday and sup pose that last night the blood of that distinguished and chivalrous gentleman from Virginia had soaked the soil of Cuba. What would have been the yer dict of the American people against the administration?
 "If there is man in the house so far forgetful of his dignity as an American citizen as to intimate that the presi
 dent has been guilty of juggling thing
 like that will not answer it.
 1T did not suppose that in this con-
 gress it was necessary that I should make an explanation in order to defend
 the president from an insinuation like :, that. I am glad that the purpose of the opposition is now clearly disclosed, am delighted that because of little
 change in the programme, a change
 made under stress of circumstances
 that would have controlled any civiliz-
 ed nation-I am delighted that the gen.
 tleman from Ohio has given us notice
 that every occurrence is to be taken
 advantage of for party purposes. am
 delighted that the gentleman from
 Texas (Mr. Bailey) has two or three
 times pointed out with delight that
 there are differences of opinion on the
 republican side of the house. I suggest
 to the gentleman that when he opens a
 recruiting office to get volunteers to : pass under his banner to fight the ad-
 ministration, he had better make con-
 tract for the rent of his quarters from day to day as he probably will not need
 them very long in the future.
 Here comes matter which the whole world will say governed the ad-
 ministration as it ought to have been
 governed; and the world will be noti-
 fled tonight that the president has
 been assailed by a representative on the floor his motives impugned, his in tegrity censured, his whole action charged as being instigated by a crim- : inal purpose and this in a body that boasts that it is going to stand by the administration.
 Gentlemen, this war will be fought under the banner of the republican , administration or it will never be
 fought at all. We may differ about
 how it ought to be inaugurated, and honestly. But when the time comes the commander chief of the army of the United States will command the column that will crush the power of Spain or it never will be crushed. Tt is not yet two years since it was proclaimed by the great democratic ' lawyers of congress that there was no , power in congress to recognize the in- pendence of a foreign country, but that
 such recognition lay exclusively upon : the constitution in the hands of the president. But, however, that may be | when it is declared, the president be- r comes at once vested with the power to [ conclude treaties and he is the com
 mander-in-chief of our armies. , II have no more doubt" Mir Gros-
 yenor concluded, that we are going to
 war than have that we will live until |. next week. pray to God that I may , be mistaken. But I believe that we , will go to war on declaration sub- | stantially of congress. My influence
 will be given to avert war, but the time is up in my judgment when we can
 avert it, and if peace shall prevail it must come from the action of another
 country than our own.
 "Our position is taken and we can
 not recede. But let the policy of this e government be such that when the toe - sin of war shall have sounded all the civilized world will say: America is
 right" (Great applause).
 After MT. Grosvenor concluded his
 remarks, MT. Bailey took the floor in g
 brief speech in which he quoted severa1 l utterances of MT. Grosvenor to show :: that the Buckeye statesman had shift l ed his position. He first quoted from f one of MT. Grosvenors speeches of g . | week go in which he declared that the p administration would, when the time : for action came, favor independence f and armed intervention two days later he said in an interview independence
 without armed intervention, and now
 he said intervention without independ. , ence.
 s MT. Grosvenor caused merriment . when he said the statements quoted 2 were substantially in the same drec. N ton.
 Then turning his attention to some 4 of MT Grosvenor's remarks, MT. Bailey ! indignantly repelled the idea that ii | war came it was to be a republican :. | war.
 ] 'It would be war of the people oi . the United States against Spanish ty-