The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-27

was fool enough TO say that We levied,
through the Dinghy bill, system Of
taxation that was 10 produce two thou
sand million dollars q year. How art
fully did he do Il? In this speech, which
he does not want me to reply 10 and
begs of me not to notice. Suppose now.
for the purpose Of vindicating his state
men, or representation I said that the
D.ngley bill was to produce two thou
sand million dollars OF revenue per an
mum, read what Mr.. Lewis says:
THE estimates Of the navy and war de-
par.ments were $50 eo9.90 for the navy
ard s250ela 900 for the war-S5eo. ooo,o1b. Re-
call that We meet in six months-one-haG
year-fhat oae-haif Of the whole years es-
innate. xa5e opo coo. is the extreme estimates
of the departments, stimulated by corrupt
contractors, yet after certain outside ma
nipuIatons, bill Is pressed through tax
| ing the people, together With interest on
the taxes. s., 500 Coz, GO, and Gen. Grosvenor.
the spokesman Of the administration. says
II will reach s. COO. o,ooo. Think Of 1t. Ten
hundred million dollars confessedly more
| than needed or asked for"
Now, here are both the suppressio
rnent that I was talking about the
Dingley war revenue bill is false and
| the fact that when I spoke Of
| two thousand million dollars as the
| probable cost OF the Spanish war I was
| speaking about the total cost Of the
war and not about the income from the
war revenue bill. is suppressed. l have
never in my observation Of public men
| seen or heard Of the like. 1t beggars de-
| scription and have hesitated to believe
| it possible that Mr.. Lewis could have
been guilty Of what he has been guilty
| of until the matter was forced upon me
| by the stenographic reports of what he
| has been saying
am charitable and believe that Mr..
| Lewis is afflicted by the extraordinary
! length Of the whistle and the fearful
| abbreviation Of the boiler, and that he
| would not and could not by any pos
sibility be guilty of such gross and
| shameful Misrepresentation if it were
| not for some infirrnity of nature.
| am furnished a statement made by
Mr.. Lewis as follows:
| "Fellow-Citizens: have heard much of
Gen. Grosvenor. Gen. Grosvenor has been
| for long time defender of the admin
| istration. We find now. fellow citizens.
| that after stumping all Of Ohio he is re-
minded to get back TO his district. 1t is
| dangerous for him TO remain there. He
| finds that the soldiers who left their homes
| well and comfortable, never having left the
| soil. return there rejected, broken in health.
| poisoned and dying, because they have
| been murdered by the incompetence Of
| these favorites. who were given political
| positions by the war department, who
| dared to do it under the CURSE of the au-
| thority Of the president and now seek TO
| shield their conduct in the cry. You are
| attacking the president; you are attacking
| the administration. Gen. Grosvenor re-
| turns 10 his home on September % In the
| Sunday New York World we find letter
| that he now writes 10 the secretary of war,
| after being informed Of the death Of the
| boys in his own home. in the horribly cruel
| manner in which they have passed out of
| life, when thousands OF voices, trumpet
| toned. have been crying out to damn the
| manner o. their taking Oft.
Here is a statement of fact. This does
| not come from the six-foot boiler. out
| comes from the ten-foot whistle. Let
| me state briefly the situation: The
| Seventh Ohio volunteer infantry
| sent four full companies and more than
| half of another company from my dis
trict. one company from the town in
which live. They were stationed first
at Chillicothe, then transferred to Col
umbus, then to Camp Alger, where they
remained until August, then sent TO
Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, and then
brought home by way OF Columbus, fur
Laughed for thirty days. their furloughs
will expire on the 9th OF October, when
they will be mustered out. The regi-
ment contained between 1900 and 400
men and officers. During the entire
period OF their service only three men
died OF disease and Of course not one
was either killed or wounded. They
returned in splendid health, as fine look
ing a body OF men as have ever seen.
| The ratio OF deaths will at once be ac-
cepted by old soldiers and intelligent
record.
There happened one matter In connec-
lion with altogether another branch OF
| the service IN which I took some part. In
| one Of the remote corners OF my dis
| trict there is family living by the
| name OF Parrett. \ member Of that
family Hugh Parre;t was q member
| Of one Of the regular regiments tina.
| fought at Santiago under Shafter and
arrived later on at Camp WykoT in
| New York. This young man died three
| or four days after his arrival at the
| new camp. The statement was pub
| lished IN the New York World that an
| acting assistant contract surgeon by
| the name Of Tabor had neglected this