The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-08
EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE
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(Mr. Lentz), said he, mas predlcated q long speech here upon statement of facts made by himself He declares that no message came from General Lee yesterday, that 1t was fake re- port, given out for corrupt purpose by the president at the instance of the stock jobbers. Every particle of this statement is absolutely false. I call upon the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Berry), a member of the foreign affairs committee, to say whether I tell the truth or not, when I say that such a 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 American honor and the integrity of the presi- dent Not only did the dispatch come yesterday, but it came the day before and appealed to the president of the United States. read the telegram and there are twenty men on this floor now that read the telegram, both democrats and republicans. It was read to the members of the foreign relations com mittee of the senate and every one of them without qualification coincided Wllll LilC pOllCy OL lLC plSSluSlit, iACe eO send the message in here at that time. I say again that on yesterday most earnest and urgent request came from General Lee. Is General Lee at one end of the ticker?
 How men ever became educated to the idea that all men are corrupt, I leave to your imagination"
 MT. 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 it while Wall street was speculating upon it?"
 MT. Grosvenor-"Wall street was not speculating on it. That story is as false as the other. The president in- and sealed and ready to be transmitted to both houses and yesterday morning when the final protest in the name of humanity came, it was read before the committees of the two houses and without dissenting voice they advised the president against sending his mes sage here. The gentleman made a garbled statement. He stated that the representative of the great powers in this city to-day called on the president SiAN statement here in my hand and there is not one word said about delay. What the gentleman did not read is the re- sponse in which the president put an end, without qualification, to all sug- gestions of delay or interference. The gentleman is arraigning the president of the United States; he is sending a message to the enemy showing them that here in this house is man who will charge the president of the United States with a corrupt purpose, with corrupt intention, with attempting to stop the progress, the march Of pa triotisn1. There is no word of delay ir : all the language which has been used ir this connection.
 q call the attention of the gentleman and the house." he continued, Ito the statement he made that this was another purpose of delay in this decla- ration from the ambassadors of the great powers, so that Wall street would run upward. I hold in my hand the statement that in the city of New York the market became very weak and ran clear down upon every one ot the leading articles in the market.
 Tt is very easy to charge the sena- tor. The senator (meaning MT. Han na) has made a statement which challenge any man to deny, that never in his life did he buy a dollar of stock in Wall street or anywhere else.''
 MT. McMillan-"Ca he say the same thing about votes?" Slaughter and ap- plause on democratic side).
 MT. Lentz-"I mentioned no senator on the floor of this house. His name was mentioned in one of the articles ht read''
 Mrs. Grosvenor-Did you mean Marl Hanna?
 MT. Lentz--What makes you think meant Mark Hanna? Gaughter).
 MT. Grosvenor-You mentioned Marl Hanna and the record will show it.
 MT Lentz--I will charge you with tn, responsibility of accusing MT. Hanna I have not. I described certain in dividual
 Mr. Grosvenor--Oh, but the gentle man did use the name.
 MT Lentz-I deny it.
 ''Well, there is the record" replied General Grosvenor. Continuing he said
 lC SCllllClilcth lo 5iCeItly WOIAiS' about bonds, and he read the name O John ]. McCook, in one of his raids Who is McCook? How does he and tn gentleman from Ohio stand with ref erence to this? will show you tha they are parties in a great conspiracy one willingly so, the other, trust, ig norantly so. John J., McCook is the le gal representative of the Cuban juntt of New York, behind which stand four hundred million more or les of bonds that can be validate; by the recognition of the in dependence of Cuba by the United States and they will be destroyed by { policy that drives Spain out of Cub: in the name of the American people If John J. McCook could get the United States to recognize the independence of Cuba and fight to establish 1t, at { cost of a thousand million dollars tn, holders of these bogus bonds would realize s400 ,0G0 900. Let us take the oth CT side. I was told just before thi trouble broke out that a party in Nev York sold short to an extent that i the condition of things were in prio to the breaking out of this Cuban trouble had prevailed, it would hav ruined him, although he is yer, ,,,aalthv have been told that am