The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-25
Inn P.''S1S HIS SPEECH.
.~rs CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
,rurOLE OF STUMP Speech.
.sses Poetry which May Receive
personal Applioatisn-Reoru
A. Being Enlisted for Ser
- IN the Philippine Islands.

s-.c,al Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
TxsHINGTON, June A.-John J.
,srss vho has been before the public
- some time in connection with tn
..s...tfsafion into the Occur d'Alene
srcubIe has been given the laugh re-
ssctiv by a speech OF his that appeared
= ~. Congressional Record, which is
I'm being printed. in spite OF the fact
,hat congress adjourned last Thursday
-eek. The Record now Is devoted who'll
i 10 publication OF speeches alleged to
ssve been delivered in the house and
s.cafe. but really intended solely for cam
nsiru purposes One issue shows that
f1ntr finally outwitted those members
n congress who were opposed to hav-
~ the government pay for the printing
~ the testimony in the Occur dAlene In
yestigation. Mr.. Lentz occupies twenty
pfpe pages OF the valued Record His
sIIeeed speech. which really wasn't de-
Hyered at all, but was slipped in by the
a)save 10 print route. is devoted TO a
ssyiew OF the Occur dAlene affair, and
volumnous extracts from the testimony
bsfore the military affairs committee are
reprinted. Mr.. Lentz also prints some
roetry In view of his candidacy for re-
election 10 congress from the Twelfth
Ohio district. which he has already repre-
sented for two terms. one Of the dizzy
Bits Of Verse which Mr. Lentz quotes is
signihcant II begins:
The time is ripe, and rotten ripe, for
change"
whereupon the truthful Record remarks
IN brackets; Round after round OF ap-
pause participated In by all present"
The funny part of II all IL that Mr..
Lentz gave the whole snap away by OBJ
serving later In this alleged speech. And
I hope when you go away from this
meeting tonight" etc. As a matter OF
fact the speech, instead of being deliv-
ed In the national house of representa-
iivs, was simply a stump speech TO some
DemocrHtic meeting.
Recruits for the Philippines.
Fifteen hundred recruits for the regu-
lar army In the Philippines are now be-
ing enlisted and assembled In New York
harbor and Columbus barracks, Ohio. to
sail on the two new government steam
ers Buford and Fitzpatrick about the LIST
Of November next. via the Straits Of
Gibraltar. Mediterranean sea. Suez canal
and the Red sea to Manila
These recruits are to take the places
OF enlisted men whose terms of service
will expire this year. many OF the vet
efnns having expressed a desire 10 re-
main IN the Philippines TO try business
IN civil life The government has liber-
ally given them the privilege of free trans
poriation 10 the inited States any time
within q year after their honorable dis
charge ION account of expiration Of term
OF service.
The transports Buford and fitzpatrick
are being fitted up by the government I'm
the most improved style. with every
facility on board TO make the men com
and each will sail from New
York for Manila nbou, the LIST OF Mo-
vember 1900
Mai Glen. Wesley Merritt. recently re-
lieved from the command OF the Depart
mcnt ~ the East, was placed on the re-
tired liss of the army Saturday by OPP
GRAFTON OF law on account of age lie Is