The age-herald., 1898-04-08
ter and applause from the democratic

MT. Lentz proceeded to read from the New York Journal statements to the effect that the delay in the message helped stock jobbers and that they had had advance information. He read from the various stock reports to show that stocks went up all along the line when the news was received that the message would not go to congress yesterday In conclusion he referred to the note of the powers and the governments response.
 MT. Lent's remarks brought MT. Gros- venor, of Ohio, generally regarded as the administrations spokesman to his feet In an indignant reply, in the course of which he made some startling statements which caused great sensation in the house.
 "The gentleman from Ohio Oents) said he ''has predicated long speech here upon a statement of the facts made by him self. He declares there was no message from General Lee yesterday, that 1t was a fake report, that 1t was false, given out for a corrupt purpose by the president to affect the stock market. Every parti- cle of this statement Is without quali1ca- tion, absolutely false. Applause on the republican side.1 l call upon the distin- guished gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Berry) a member of the foreign affairs committee to say whether tell the truth or not when I say that such despatch was received from General Lee and was read by him. There is the answer.
 Twenty Men Who Read It
 "That is the character of the sort of as- saults that are being made on American honor and the integrity of the president. Not only did the despatch come yesterday, but it came the day before and appealed to the president. I read the telegram and there are twenty men on this floor now who read the telegram, both democrats and re- publicans. It was read to the distinguished members of the foreign relations committee of the senate and every one of them with out qualification coincided with the policy of the president not to send his message at this time. say again that on yesterday a most urgent protest come from General Lee. Some men can ascribe corrupt mo- tves to other men; how they ever became educated to the idea that all men are cor rupt I leave to your immagtnation."
 Mr. Lentz: ''If you knew this day before yesterday why did you let the house and galleries fill up with people and sit here and say nothing about 1t while Wall street was speculating upon it.
 Denied That There Was Speculation MT. Grosvenor: wall street was not speculating on it. That story is as false as the other. I say to the gentleman that the president intended to disregard Lees mes sage of Tuesday and had his message signed and sealed and ready to be trans mitted to both houses and yesterday morn ing when the final protest in the name Of humanity's sake came. As l said 1t was read before the committees of the two houses and without a dissenting vote they advised the president against sending 1t here. Now let me answer another propo- sition. He made a. garbled statement here. He made statement that the representa- tvs of the great powers in this city have today called upon the president and asked him to delay. Aer
 q state that that was false. I have the statement here in my hand and there is not one word said about delays. What the gentleman did not read Is the response In which he put an end, without qualification, to all suggestions of delay or interference in any way whatever. Now, the gentlemen is arraigning the president of the United States; he is sending message to the enemy showing them that here in the midst of the house is man who will charge the president or the United States with ccr- rupt purpose, with corrupt intention, with attempting to stop the progress of the great march of patriotism. There is no word of delay in all the language which has been used in this connection"
 Denied Another Proposition :. ei'e
 After prolonged wrangle over the ques- tion of an extension. of time MT. Grosvenor proceeded:
 q call the attention of the gentleman and of the house, to the statement he made that this was another stock jobbing per- 
 delay in this declaration from the ambas- sadors of the great powers. so that Wall street would run upward. I hold in my hand the statement that immediately upon the publication of this statement in New York the stock became weak and ran down. See how easy it Is to make a change. Now, let me tell the gentleman something about bonds. It is very easy to change senator That senator (meaning MT. Hanna), has made 8 statement which I challenge any man to deny that never in his life, not only not this year, but never in his life, did he buy dollar of stock in Wall street or any where else" .
 MT. McMillin: Gan he say the same thing about votes?" Daughter and ap- plause on the democratic side.)
 MT. Lentz: "I mentioned no senator from any state on the floor of this house. His name was mentioned in one of the articles I read"
 MT. Grosvenor: ''Everybody knew does the gentleman say he did not intend to point out Mark Hanna"
 Mir. I,entz: How could everybody know?" MT. Grosvenor: "Did you intend it to mean Mark Hanna? Be brave now. An swer that. Did you mean Mark Hanna?'
 Lentz's Clever Probing
 MT. Lentz: "What makes you think I meant Mark Hanna?" Q1aaghter)
 MT. Grosvenor: You mentioned Mark Hanna, and the record VIII SHoW It,
 MT. Lentz: "I will charge you with the responsibility of accusing MT. Hanna I have not. I described certain individ- ual." g.se
 MT. Grosveaer: 9.oh, but the gentleman does not use the name. I have been batting him to say that" <. MT. Lentz: 1T deny it.' -,-fs,3 tH t,r
 MT. Grosvenor: "Well. there Is the rec ord" sInera t
 "Now, MT. Speaker, let us see how this situation stands. The gentleman Is great ly worried about the bonds, and he read the name of John J. McCook in one of his tirades Who Is John J. McCook? Whom does he represent? What Is he here for How does the gentleman from Ohio stand with reference to this? I will show you that they are parties in great conspiracy, one willingly so, the other, trust, tgnor- antly Who is John J.. McCook? He is the legal representative of the Cuban Junta of New York behind which stands $40o.OOo,oOO, more or less, of bonds that can be valf- dated by the recognition of the independ- ence of Cuba by the United States, and they will be destroyed by policy that | drives Spain out of Cuba in the interest of tha American people" (Applause.) -t