The San Francisco call., 1898-04-08

that prevailed here yesterday. The tele- gram by the Associated Press yesterday stated that all was quiet in Havana, and General Lee told correspondent that he had not been requested to leave. Other newspapers have similar dispatches. If 1heSe aeSi. statements i 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 telegrams
 initiated by commercial greed" all of which he declared emanated principally from Wal street
 Tt is the old question of the almighty dollar" said he. Tt is the fall of stocks the gentlemen who control the admins tratlon fear more than war. They care nothing for the 26o assaSSinated sailors who went down in Havana --arbor; but they care everything for 99 cents plus one cent. l say. my friends. that we owe an apology to Judas lScariot. l say he ought to be brought back and deiied. If Judas lived in this age he would not have gone to the potter's field and hanged himself He would have been sent to the United states Senate in due time, such spec uiator as he was" Laughter and ap- plause on the Democratic sidel
 LentZ proceeded to read from a New 1Ork paper statements to the effect that delay in sending the message helped stock Jobbers, and that they had had advance information. He read from the various stock reports to snow that stocks went
 
 received that the message would not go to Congress yesterday. He referred to the note of the powers to the Government and its response
 LentZ's remarks brought GrosVenor of Ohio, generally regarded as the admin lstration's spokesman, to his feet with an indignant reply, in the course of which he made some startling statements, which caused great sensation in the House
 The gentleman from Ohio Gentz) '' said he. has predicated d long speech here upon statement of facts made by himself He declares that no messa ge came from General Lee yesterday; that 1t was fake report; that it was false. given out for a corrupt purpose by the President to affect the stock market Ey- cry particle of this statement is, without qualification, absolutely false. Applause on the Republican side) l call upon the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky lBerryl, member of the Foreign Af- fairs Committee, to say whether I tell the truth or not when l say that such a dis patch was received from General Lee and was read by him. There is the answer 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 dispatch come yes terday, but it came the day before, and appealed to the President of the United States, l read Fthe telegram, and there are twenty men on this floor now who read the telegram, both Democrats and Republicans. It was read to the distin- guiShed members of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee of the Senate, and each and every one of them, without qualifi- cation. coincided with the policy of the President not to send the message in here at that time. l say again that only a most earnest and urgent protest came from General Lee. Is General Lee at one of the tickers? Naughter on the Repub- lican side) Some men can ascribe cor rupt motives to other men: how they ever became educated to the idea that all men a ra mi tn ina ocri tfnt,
 LentZ-1f you knew this day before yes terday, 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 on it?
 Grovesnor-Wall street was not spec ulating on it. That story was as false as the other. I say that the President intended to disregard Lees message of Tuesday and had his message signed and sealed, and ready to be transmitted to both Houses. and yesterday morning, when the final protest in the name of humanity came, as I have said, it was Houses and without a dissenting voice they advised the President against send ing 1t here. Now let me answer another proposition. He has made a garbled that the representatives of the great powers in this city have to-day called on the President and asked him to delay. 1 stated that that was false I believe the statement here in my hand, and there is not one word said about the delay. What the gentleman did not read is the re- sponse in which he put an end, without qualification, to all suggestions of delay or interference in any way whatever. Now, the gentleman is arraigning the President of the United States: he is sending a message to the enemy. show ing them that here in the midst of this House is a man who will charge the President of the United States with a corrupt purpose. with corrupt inten- tion, 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"
 After prolonged wrangle over the nor proceeded:
 T call the attention of the gentleman and of the House." he continued, ito the statement he made that this was an- that there was another purpose of delay in this declaration from the ambassadors or the great powers, so that Wall street the statement that immediately upon the publication of the statement in the city Of New York the market became very weak s ana ran clear down upon every one or the leading articles in the market See now easy 1t Is to make a charge. Now let me tell the gentleman something about o4nds' ofnr rh. It IS yery easy to charge a Sem has made 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 a dollar of stock in Wall street or anywhere else"
 MeMillin-Can he say the same thing about votes? Daughter and applause or the Democratic side.) 0''
 LentZ-I mentioned no Senator from any State on the floor of this House His name was mentioned in ore of the articles 1 read U ''NieS
 Grosvenor-Everybody knew-does the gentleman say he did not intend to point out Mark Hanna?
 Lentz-tIow could everybody know?
 Grosvenor-Did you intend it to mean Mark Hanna? Be brave now. Answer that. Did you mean Mark Hanna?
 LentZ-What makes you think I mean Mark Hanna? daughter)
 Grosvenor-You mentioned Mark Hanno and the record will show 1t.
 LentzEI will charge you with the re- sponsibility of accusing Mr. Hanna ual. "'iu
 Grosvenor-Oh, but the gentleman did say that. '-i 'o
 LentZ-I deny it.
 Grosvenor-Well, there is the record Now, MT. Speaker, let us see how this stands. This gentleman is