The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
Republicans Put Members of the
Opposition in Very RidiCu-
IouS Light
LENTZ VIGOROUSLY
SCORES WAR POLICY
Says Otis Army is Larger Than
Grants at ViCkSburg or Sher-
mans on Famous March

Washington, Dec 1.-THE six days
debate upon the currency bill closed
today in a sensational manner. The
republican leaders had evidently set a
trap for the minority, to show that dis
cord existed on the money question,
and it was timed so as to make the
scene as dramatic as possible. Just at
the close of the debate today three of
the heavyweights, Gen. Grosvenor of
Ohio, Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania and
Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa were put forward
to call the attention of the House to
the fact that in the long debate very
little had been heard about free coinage
of silver at 16 to / from the minority
side of the House, and that not one
had offered an amendment for such
proposition.
Mr.. Grosvenor said it was one of the
signs of the coming regeneration of the
democratic party. Mr.. Richardson, the
minority leader, Indignantly denied any
intention of abandoning silver and
stated that under the special order I'M
der which the House was operating
neither substitute nor motion to re-
commit was in order. Then Mr.. Dali
zell challenged any member of the OPP
position to offer a free coinage amend
ment. In response half the democratic
membership rose and demanded the
privilege, but here and there was an
eastern democrat shouting his disap-
prevail.
Parliamentary obstacles prevented
the offering of the proposed amend
ment. There were cries of Bluff
from the democratic side, but the re-
publicans, after the parliamentary OBJ
stacles had been removed, through Mr..
Overstreet, who was in charge of the
bill, asked unanimous consent for an
amendment to the rule to permit this
amendment to be offered. Then Mr.
briggs and Mr.. Levy, two New York
democrats, blocked this game with OBJ
jections. No amendments were offered
to the bill today, and only one section
of the bill was read. The whole time
was occupied in speeches,
The incidents of the day were SEN
sational speech by Mr. Lentz (dem.,
o., denouncing the prosecution of the
war in the Philippines and charging an
alliance between Great Britain and
the United States to subvert liberty,
one in South Africa and one in the
orient and an attack upon the mem
DRY of ex-President Hayes by Mr. Clark
(dem., o.. Mr.. Brown, an Ohio repub-
lican, warmly defended the memory of
Mr.. Hayes.
Mr. Lentz, (Ohio), charged that the
pending bill had been prepared by the
5000 national banks, a secret combina-
ton that welded more influence than
the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Eel
lows aud the Red Men combined. The
bill was intended to increase the power
of the national banks.
I'm our next platform we will put
in plank against trusts, we will put
in a plank against imperialism, and
we will put in a plank against the Brit
ish alliance, an alliance that is now
open aid apparent. applause on the
democratic side.)
"They are shooting down liberty in
South Africa, while you are shooting
it down in the Philippine islands. That
is evidence sufficient that both govern
ments ere operating upon parallel lines.
The first blossom of liberty in the
orient is TO be cut off by the republi-
can party of the United States, the
first substantial struggle for liberty in
Africa to be moved down in it's infan-
cy by the queen of England
IF things are not inside out, how
can the republican party stand impo-
tent and silent while England is shoot
ing to death a republic in South Africa
and while under the military and inn
perialistic powers that patronage has
delivered to the president, here, the
crime Of crimes is being committed I'M
der the stars and stripes of the Union.
The president at Madison, Wisconsin,
said: One small fraction of one small
tribe resists our authority in the
orient Aye, my friends, an army of
$4,000 men has been called into requi-
sition. An army larger than Sherman
needed on the march to the sea; an
army larger than Grant needed to take
Vicksburg, is now called into requisi-
ton and kept there for nearly a year
to sublue one small fraction of one
small tribe.
rs that the source of your prosper
ity? Is your Egan pension of $4,000 for
being reduced, degraded and dish6n-
ored. is your beef trust that murdered
1890 rnen while the Spaniards only
killed $50, is that the source of your
prosperity?
cts your humiliation and subordina-
ton of the man who won the most
magnificent naval victory that the
world has seen, Winfield Scott Schley,
(applause), is that the source of your
prosperity? Is your subordination of
Brooke and Miles and Merritt. the men
who had been trained together with
their associates at an expense of mill
lions of dollars to the country, and the
putting of politicians in the army sad
die, is that the cause of your prosper
ity? You will live to be ashamed of