The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-13
HOT WORDS IN THE HOUSE

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laughed at him Take that thing
back" he said.
AS the mace cannot be employed I'M
der the rules in committee. the chair
did not press the command and the in
cident closed with a round OF laughter.
Leniz Is Indignant.
Shortly before the adjournment Mr..
Lentz, dem, Ohio, made a vigorous as
sault upon What he called the "vacil-
lating policy" of the president. reading
from various newspapers to show that
the president had repeatedly changed
his mind. He commented especially
upon the report of an alleged midnight
conference tive Senator Elkins and
the Spanish minister after the former
had been at the white house with John
J.. McCook. He tainted the republic
cans because the president had not de-
clared for the Independence of Cuba.
which the republican platform had de-
handed.
1t remains to be SEEM said he.
whether the majority of the house can
be lined up and whipped in" Con-
gress. he declared. should act and could
better act than the executive ''formu-
lating his policy al midnight behind
closed doors with the aid of plu-
tocracy."
"A stable government; what do you
propose now? Let this congress give
to the president the army and navy, he
says. and j will go over there and force
the Cuban patriots, force the Cuban
people to submit to a stable govern
ment at the hands of Spain. because
the queen regent has already advised
the administration that she has ordered
a suspension of hostilites. She cannot
order a suspension OF hostilities by the
insurgents. She has not among all her
~bullfighters n DULLES manhood enough
to order a suspension of hostilities on
the insurgents. This administration
with all its validating policy, which is
criticised by the Chicago Tribune. an
administration paper. asks us to put the
army and navy in its hands to go over
n punish the Cubans after three
years of the most heroic fighting for
liberty that any people ever mad or
the face OF the earth. ] say il is an
outrage: il is a stencil in the nostrils of
every decent American. We shall see
whether the majority side of this house
can be whipped into such a policy as
t.at."
Hepburn Defends Mckinley.
Mr.. Hepburn. rep. Iowa, jumped to
his feet as Mr.. Lentz sat down. Mr..
Chairman he began, sometimes a
misstatement is so gross that II reaches
the dignity of falsehood, and falsehood
so gross that ii becomes mendacity.
and mendacity so foul that 1t becomes
scoundrelism. 1 say that the president
has never said that he desires the use
of the army and navy at the hands OF
congress in order to establish Spanish
supremacy on the island of Cuba. APP
plause.) That is not true. There is no
man who can with an honest heart and
with an honest purpose read this mes
sage of the president and arrive at any
conclusion Of hat character. The presi-
dents whole argument leads up to the
proposition tha the conduct of Spain
on that island. during 30 years of mis-
rule, SO years of outrage. 80 Years or
tyranny. has brought about such "A con-
dition that il is now intolerable and in
supportable and must cease. That is
the language Of the president. He asks
the use of the army and navy TO put a
stop to hat intolerable and insuferable
condition. Applause on the republican
side.)
That Is the argument of the presi-
dent. Every sentence in hat message
teaches us hat is his purpose and yet
gentlemen say i'm view of all the Ian
guage he has used. i'm view of the ar
gument he has made. in reciting the in
famous and despotic conduct that he has
called to our attention, that IL Is the
intention of the president to become
the ally of the Spaniards. | say that
there is no word in tina whole message
that justifies any honorable man in
making a declaration of that kind upon
this floor. We are going there to tight
Spain. We are going there 10 establish
a stable and permanent government.
What does that mean?
Fifty Years of II.
Here we have had so years of Span
ish government not stable. not perma-
nent, except in the villainy Of its out
RACES. That character of outrage and
yillainy which has become insufferable
should be suffered no longer, the presi-
lent says, creating such an emergency
as compels us to violate the otherwise
friendly relations that we ought to have
and go to the extreme of war in bring
ing an end to these insufferable condi-
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 ana 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- perpetuste that which he rep
rebates and to continue that which he
saws Is now uncomfortable. He wants a
stable and permanent republican gov
eminent. Does hat mean Spanish
rule? Has any man the right TO make
that argument"
MIR. Lentz-Does III say republican
government?
MIR. Hepburn-No. he does not say
that. but he supposed that o knew
something about the history of this
country. Applause or the republican
side.D
Mr.. Lents-I do.
Mr.. Maguire-And we know some
thing of the history of this administra-