The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-21
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produce the letter he had referred to.
He said he thought it existed only in
the imagination Of the gentleman from
Ohio MIR. Lentz declared that the
/ letter could not be produced without
getting the boy into trouble.
Mr. Cannon declared that gentle
man who would rise in his place in
the American congress end advise men
who had enlisted under the American
flag to desert, might be safe here, but
if he should say the same thing in the
Philippines he would De tried by drum
head cOurtmaFtial and shot. This state
ment brought a round OF applause from
the Republican side.
Lentz is Not Scared.
But Mr.. Lentz returned to the as
sauIt. He read newspaper account
Of letter receiV ed BY the father of d
soldier saying4 thss The soldiers We're
ordered TO shoot every man and beast
they found. Mir. Lentz declared that
ne could not be "brUw-beaten." If such
orders had been issued, he said this
congress collectively should be ashamed
TO face the world. He charged that
American soldiers were guilty of muir
der, ana said that the time had come
when the country was entitled TO know
the facts. and not To rely upon a CEN
sOred press.
lashing himself into u passion while the
men he slandered were probably in
the performance Of their duty. Mr.
Cannon said that in his life he mad
heard more eloquent men than the gen
tleman from Ohio encourage deserving.
When the life of the nation was at
stake" he said, ''men all over the north
stood behind the firing line and encour-
aged desertiOn. 1 leave the gentleman
to the contempt of an indignant peo-
pie, continued Mr.. Cannon, amid a
whirlwind of applause as he took his
seat.
Was the gentleman even on the fir
ing Ene?' cried Mr.. Lentz.
1T matters not where L was retort-
ed Mr.. Cannon, jumping to his feet. Il
was not dislOyaI then, and, what is
more important, / am not dislOyaI
now" CRenewed Republican appIause.)
Mr.. MahOn (Rep., Pa challenged Mr.
Lentz to bring IN a resolution to ask
the secretary OF war whether such or
ders as he had referred to ever had
been issued. The result of such an in
quiry, he said, would show that the
report of the committee was q false
hood. I have heard such speeches as
the gentleman delivered before, he
continued. They are but reVamp of
the cOppeThead speeches from 1861 to
1866. The cOpperhead charged every
dierS. The boys in the Philippines are
deserving because you encourage them
to desert, and the man who encOuT-
ages them to desert is worse than the
deserter During the rebellion I
thought if 5000 or 10000 of the copper
heads had been shot we would not have
been troubled with desertiOn. Some of
those men still live-thank God very
few. There arep none in my state.
Neither the people nor the press of my
state would be paid to make such
charges as the gentleman has made.
am not surprised that the good people
left you at hOme-nOt because you
that the administration paid
100000 to defeat you, you are not worth
demagoguery.
Defeated by Bribery.
This brought Mr. Lentz again to his
feet. When he declared himself a JEFF
fersonian-L Lincoln Democrat the Re
publicans jeered. Proceeding, he
that his defeat had been com
passed by bribery right and left.
Il was defeated, he concluded. you
are welcome to the glory and satisfac-
ton of it
1T is a great satisfaction, laconicalIy
observed Mr.. MahOn, amid laughter.
Mr.. GrOSvenOr also paid his respects
to Mr.. Le7tZ for terming himself a fol-
lower of Jefferson and Lincoln and
Mr.. Moody, Republican of Massachu-
sets. also brought his side of ene house
UP standing by reading an utterance
of Lincoln condemning more the willy
agitatOr' who induced the soldier t.
desert than the soldier himself.
Has Massachusetts shot Senator
Hoar2' shouted Mr.. Lentz, while the
applause was resounding through the
hall
"Oh, get OUT" called Mr.. Dalzen
(Rep., Pa.
The excitement then subsidized and
the consideration of the bill was re-
sumed
Hazing Amendment Goes Out.
Mr.. Sherman (Rep., n. y offered the
following amendment, against which
Mr. Cannon successfully raised a point
of order
Provided further, That the superin-
tendent of the naval academy shall
make such rules, to be approved by the
of the navy, as will effect
ually prevent the practice of hazing:
and any cadet found guilty of partici-
pating in. or encourag ing or counte-
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