The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-08

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received from Consul General Lee in
Havana indicating that he wanted time.
and the message was delayed on that
account. Now. l don't believe anybody
had authority for the statement from
the administration or any other official
that justified the rumor that prevailed
here yesterday. The telegram by the
associated press yesterday stated that
all was quiet in Havana. and General
Lee told a correspondent that he had
not been requested to leave. our
newspapers. notably the New York
Journal. have similar dispatches. IL
these statements are true there was
nothing to justify the statement sent
to the capitol yesterday. i say there
will be no war"
Continuing. he charged that congress
was being overwhelmed by kilograms.
dictated by commercial greed. all OF
which he declared emanated principally
from Wall street and Lombard street
1t is the old question of the almighty
dollar" said he. 1T is the fall OF
stocks the gentlemen who control the
administration fear more than war.
They care nothing for the 266 assassi-
mated sailors who went down in Ha-
vana harbor. but they care everything
for 80 cents plus l cent. i say, my
lTltnuS. tndt We owe an dDblokN W Jh-
das Iscariot. | say he ought to be
brought back and deified. IL 'r!as
lived in this age he would N We
gone to the potter's field anC Ced
himself He would have beer sent to
the United States senate I'm due time
such a speculator as he was" daugh-
ter and applause on the democratic
side.)
Mr. Lentz proceeded to read from the
New York Journal statements to the
effect that the delay in sending the
message helped stock jobbers and that
they had had advance Information. He
read from the various stock reports 10
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 to the govern
ment and it's response.
Mr.. Lentz's remarks brought Mr.
Grosvenor of Ohio. generally regarded
as the administrations spokesman, to
his feet with an indignant reply in the
course of which he made some start
ling statements which caused a great
sensation i'm the house.
Grosvcnor's Reply.
The gentleman from Ohio tMr.
Lentz)," said he. has predicated a
long speech here upon a statement of
facts made by himself. lie declares
that no message came from General
Lee yesterday; that IL was a fake re-
port: that II was false. given out for
corrupt purpose by the president to af-
feet the stock market. Every particle
of this statement IL without qualifica-
ton absolutely false. Applause on the
republican slde).
. Il call upon the distinguished gen.
tleman from Kentucky tMr. Berry,,
member of the foreign affairs commit
tee, To say whether l tell the truth or
not when l say that such dispatch
was received from General Lee and
was read by him. There is the answer.
That is the character OF the sort of
assaults that are being made on Amer
lean honor and the integrity of the
president. Not only did the dispatch
come on yesterday but Il came the day
before. and appealed to the president
of the United States. | read the tele-
gram and there are 20 men on this floor
now that read the telegram, both dem
ocrats and republicans. IL was read to
the distinguished members of the for
eign relations committee of the senate.
and each and every one of them. with
out qualification, coincided with the
policy Of the president not To send the
message In here at that time. | say
again that only most earnest and
urgent protest came from General Lee.
Is General Lee at one of the tickers?
Some men can ascribe corrupt motives
to other men: how they ever became
educated to the idea that all men are
corrupt | leave to your Imagination"
Mr.. Lentz-If you knew this day be-
fore yesterday, why did you let the
house and galleries fill up with people
and sit here and say nothing about IL
while Wall street was speculating on
it?
Mr.. Grosvenor-wall street was not
false as the other. l say that the presi-
dent intended to disregard Lees mes
sage OF Tuesday and had his mes
sage signed and sealed and ready to be
transmitted To both houses. and yes
terday morning. when the final protest
in the name of humanity came. as /
have said, IL was read before the COM
mittees of the two houses, and without
a dissenting vote they advised the
president against sending IL here. Now.
let me answer another proposition. He
has made a garbled statement here. He
made a statement that the representa-
tives of the great powers In this city
have to-day called on the president and
asked him to delay. l stated that that
was false. l have the telegram here in
my hands. and there is not word said
about delay. What the gentleman did
not read is the response in which he
puts an end without qualification to all
suggestions of delay or Interference In
any way whatever. Now. the gentle
man is arraigning the president of the
United States: he Is sending a message
Ia the enemy. showing them that here
i'm the midst of this house Is a man
who will charge the president of the
United States with n corrupt purpose.
with corrupt intention. with attempt
ing 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.
lie Defends Hanna.
Il call the attention Of the gentleman
and OF the house." he continued, Ito
the statement he made that this was
another stock jobbing performance,
and that there was another purpose OF
delay in this declaration from the am
bassadors Of the great powers, so that