The age-herald., 1898-04-08

into his pocket. Now would the gentleman
 Several members on the democratic side
 | fWho is it?'
 MT. Grosvenor: "Tell us how anybody
 can be benefited by preventing war? How?
 | I mean any stock broker anybody who
 holds any stocks. How that happen
 1 when prices are going up or down? Or
 down as each battle progresses and as each
 ship has to surrended. Then is the time
 that stocks rise and that stocks fall.
 He Would Want War
 And were stock gambler, which
 | thank God I am not, there would be no
 occasion more gratifying to my greed than
 war of the United States and another
 | country. Why is 1t that every manufac- | turer of the United States wants an end | put to this war? Because they want things | to get back again to where they were be- | fore this agitation began Why is 1t that | the treasury wants an end put to this | uncertainty? Because the revenues of the l government are being held up by excite ment and uncertainty. Therefore it is that | the president, backed by his cabinet and | backed by the best judgment of this house 1 and backed by the best judgment of the | senate is proceeding rapidly as possible | to put end to this war and yet the 1 gentleman says that the president has faltered. charge no more serious than
 he has preferred has brought the head of
 many man to the block, a charge more | infamous than that could not be borne | by any man in this country. to make it l appear that the president has used the | powers that is given him to operate upon | the stock market. Prove that and you | would have vacancy in the presidency | just quick you can establish it. The | charges have no truth" | Mir Lentz: "I have already said to you |
 that deny that I said anything of the | kind" Impeachment and Imprisonment | MT. Grosvenor: "The administration set | | the story afloat in the interests of stock | | speculation. Those are your exact words l | as the reporters notes will show. You made charge that ought to condemn the l president of the United States to impeach- l ment and Imprisonment. have for one | felt that it was terrible assault upon the | honor and integrity of Spain, what we did on yesterday. but it must be remem- bered that was put up one hand, the choice l l of insult to Spain, solemnly delivered by | | the president, an intimation to the whole | | world that there was danger of murder | to American citizens in Cuba, or there | was put the other side the danger to self. We can have no more tragedy along | this line until war comes to put the whole l | thing into the hands of tragedy. "Now, that I will say that over against | | the statement of the insult to Spain that l | was deliberately hurled at her by the | American people that the administration | was compelled to put the chances of mur- der, not that the government Of spain |
 would do 1t, but the government was so | powerless to maintain order that the ships | of a friendly nation are unsafe in her ports and might be overwhelmed by mobs ana | murder have taken place. Suppose the | message had gone to congress yesterday. | and suppose that last night the blood or | that distinguished and chivalrous gentle | man from Virginia had soaked the soil Of | Cuba What would have been the verdict | of the American people against the Amerl- | can people. If there is a man in the house | so far forgetful of his dignity as an Amerl- can citizen of the humblest character to in- | innate that the president has been gull y | of Juggling a thing like that I will not | answer it.
 Speaking gainst the Opposition "Mr Speaker, I did not suppose that in | this American congress 1t was necessary that I should make an explanation Tn order to defend the president Of the omtea | States from an insinuation like this. l am | glad the opposition is now fully ana clearly disclosed I delighted that because or a little change in the programme who iy unimportant except as 1t strengthens the daily augmenting powers Of the Unlteo States-a change made under stress or CIT cumstances-I am delighted that the gen tleman from Ohio has given us notice that every occurrence now and herea1ter IS .o he taken advantage of for party purposes and I am delighted that the gentleman | from Texas (Bailey) has two or three times now. on each succeeding day, pointed out | with great delight that there are oir- ferences of opinion on the republican slde. I suggest to the gentleman that when ne | opens a recruiting office to get volunteers to pass under his banner to fight the ad- ministration he had better make contract | for the rent of quarters from day to day, | as he will probably not need them very | | long. "fIere comes a matter which the whole | world will say governed the adm1nistration | as it ought to have been governed, ana the world will be notified tonight that the pres | ident has been assailed by distinguished representative on this, his motives im- pugned. his integrity censured, the whole | action charged as being insugated by crim- inal purposes, and this in pooy that boasts that it is going to stand py the au, ministration. Now. gentlemen let me teii vou another thing. This war will be fought finder the banner of the republican admin istratfon of this government, or 1t will never he fought at all. We may differ about how 1t is to be inaugurated, and honestly. Honored the Difference of Opinion "Some of you may have an opinion dii- ferent from mine, and honor you for that 1 But when the time comes, the commander in-chief of the army of the United states will command the column that Will crush | the power of Spain, or 1t will never pc | crushed. Again, you VIII discover as you | go along that the enemy and the other side | Ithe opposition-are putting forward mat | | ters of legal interest-taking position to- | day that it did not take two years ago. It | ia not vet two years since it was pro-
 claimed by the great democratic lawyers l or the congress that there was no power | .he congress of the United States to | gnize the independence of foreign country; labored arguments filled the Con- | gressfonal Record to show that such rec | ognftion was not within the power Of con | gress, but lay exclusively in the hands or | the president. "I have no more doubt" MT. Grosvenor l concluded, "that we are going to war than | I have that we will live until next week. | may be mistaken. pray to God that | I may be mistaken. But believe, MT.
 Speaker, that we will go to war on Q dec-
 Iaration substantially of congress. My in- | f1uence will be given for peace for what l ever 1t is worth. My influence will be given