The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-03-01
VOL I XVI
A HOT .Il''I.MlS.El.
Y .gAi sensat a1tlonal De bate IN HOUSE Of
Representatives..
,PlI'tilIlLlPP!NE r !! WAR DISCUSSED

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equal 70 lhe Task t Re.
peiIing the Attack
Thore Was a hot time in tho H Houso Of
Represent atives last "Wednesday. Mr..
Lonta, an Ohio Democrat, furnished
sensation Of the day. Ho used nows.
!: paper prasragh rcoounting tho death Of
CHARLES Lyland, territorial judge Of
Il New Mexico, who had been member
Of the legislature which elootod Soma
tor Hanna, as a text for charging oor-
1 ruption insthat election. This called
4 forth a severe remark from Mr.. Cannon.
II Con- GrosYenor Of Ohio attempted to
reply and tho two Ohioan5 wore anxious
u for tho fray, but Mr.. Cannon would
4 not permit it, Ho thought il ..dirty
i linenn was to bo washed the gontlomen
should hire a hall. Later Mr.. Lontz
Inade q second oDslaught of a more sen.
gational character Of the troops in tho
Sf Pk7linpirles i2 and brought down uroa
himself the whole Republican side Of
tho house. Mr.. Lentz attacked cor.
\ Iaption, in high and low places chsrg
IS ing thata judicial lace had had boen
" EiYvH u i1y lard III return for h;s ycte
II for United States senator.
Mr. Steele Of indiana made the point
OF order that MIR. Lentg was not speak
ing to the subject under consideration,
but was jumping on a dead man" y . n
avn not jumping on dead man"
replied Mr, }Lsntz, ''but on a man who
is 80 alive that he will ride down Pom
aylvania avenue with the president one
ii week from Monday" i,. a
Mr.. Grosvenor sought to reply 10 Mr..
. Lentz, who refused to allow him to do
Il 80. MI, Grosyenor then angrily de-
clated that the gontleman from Onio,
3 Mr. Lentz, had been guilty Of q mali.
oiouB falsehood. "And he knows it.."
q added Mr.. Grosvenor.
s:iaaf. A vsry sensational episode occurred
4 whom the paragraph providing that not
over $50 should be paid for tho appro
4. hensi0n Of q dosorter from the army
8. was reached in the appropriation bill,
which was under discussion. This para.
\ graph was soized upon by Mr.. Lentz
II for q base for an attack. He declared
that.reports were coming back from tho
5j philippines that our soldiers were kill
sing prisoners and said that he knew Of
jSSss as sletter received BY tho fa.hor of a sol.
Raj der in the philippines telling Of how d
8 native had been buried alive by his oAp
and then bohoaded. Nl.$
hat was The SORT Of aivil;zation
that 3, Dstig tg6rftiod inVJ yifU s i FliIiills
81 pines Mr.. Lsntz declared that it would
take 80, 900 to prevent our soldiers from
deserting. Again and again he shouted
3 that they were justified in deserting.
& sSSarst nj. llentzs romarks aroused tho
& yaonge to fever pitch. Mr.. Graham.
y Nepublioan, Of Pennsylvania, chel
ss lenged Mr.. Lontz to produce the letter
S&s ne had referred to, which Mr.. Lentz re-
Piled could not be produco1 without
a getting tho boy in to trublo.
Mr.. Cannon in impasslvo tones DO
+ oiared that gontleman who would
rise in his place in tho American con-
S3 gress and advise men who had enlisted
& under the American flag to desert might
bs safe here but If they should say tho
same things in tho Philippines they
would bo tried by drum head court
martial and shot. This statement
brought forth round Of applause from
the: Republican side. ,-~~
But MIR. Lentz returned to tho as
::aault. He road newspaper account
4of q letter alleged to have been re-
ecoived by the father of soldier saving
that the soldiers wore ordered to shoot
every man and beast thoy found. Mr..
lentz declared that he could net be
brow. beaten" If euoh orders had
been issued, he said, this oongress col.
(! lectively ehould be ashamed to face the
world. Ho charged that our soldiers
& wore guilty Of murder and said that tho
time had como whom tho country was
a entitled to know the facts and not to
rely upon q censored PRESS" 8,
Mr.. Cannon said the gentleman WAS
lashiGg himself into passion while tho
sS men he Blandored wero busy in the per
formanoe Of their duty. ,l
Mr.. Cannon said that in his lifotime
a. he he'd heard moro eloquent mon than
tho gentleman from Ohio encourage
i desertion. When tho life Of tho ma
tion was at stake" said he, "men ali
over the north stood behind the fling
l3ns Ind encouraged desertion. leave
S the wptloman to tho contempt of an
inaig INT people" concluded Mr.. Gan.
non a,dis' 9 Wbirlwind Of applause.
WAS tho gentleman on tho firing
liner orioG' Mr.. L,nin. AZ
1t matters not whore I was" re
Z torted Mr.; Canyon. II was not disloyal
them nor now. 8. .(Ronowed Republican
4 applnuso) q 4.
Mr.. Mahon, Republican of Pennsyl.
vanis, challenged Mr.. Lentz to bring in
resolution to ask the secretary Of war
whether such orders as he had referred
to ever had been Issued. The result,
he said, would show tho report to be a
8 falsehood. I.
S6tttI have hoard suoh speeches as tho
gentleman delivered before," he oon-
tinued. They are but a'rovan1p of the
.oopporhead speeches from 1861. 65. Tho
,cppporhoad Cha. ped every sin in the
X oalandor to the Union soldiers. The
& boye in The Philippines aro doaerling
.becauso you encourage thcm to desert
B and the man who encourages them is
ylofse than the dosortor. During tho
.febollion / thought If 8, 900 or 18. 900 az
esho . c,pperhoads had been ehot we
Il would not have boon troubled with do
yaertion. Some Of those men still live
;thank God very few. (Applausc. )
There arc mono In my State. Neither