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LENTz OF OHIO ENLIVENs PRO.
CEEDINGS BY A. QUESTION
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THE SPEAKER ATTACKED
Claims That the Latter Withheld One
Of the Formers Speeches From, the
Notwithstanding Officer Sustained
by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Aliens
Severe Arrangement of Admiral
Sampson for Certain Statements.

Washington, Feb. 27.--The house
was the scene of sensational Incl
dent which threw that body into
violent state of, excitement. For an
hour the storm ragged, ending abrupt
ly when adjournment was taken.
Mr.. Lentz (Dem, o., who has Gre
ated many sensations during his serv-
ice in the house, stirred the Demo
Gratis to a fever pitch by rising TO a
question of privilege and alleging
that speech he had turned over to
the public printer under general leave
to print had been withheld FROM the
record, and had been turned over to
General Grosvenor of Ohio by the
speaker.
The nature of the speech was not
developed during the events that fol-
lowed, but it was learned it was an
attack upon Senator Hanna and the
methods by which he was elected to
the senate. The speaker explained
that it had been represented to him
that the speech violated the privileg-
es OF the house and he had directed
that it be withheld until he could look
it over. Pressure of business had
prevented him from doing so, how
ever, and only 20 minutes before, he
said, he had directed that the speech
go into the record, believing that if
it contained anything offensive it
could be stricken out of the record by
the house later.
f>Io
eral points of order were made by Re-
publicans, but the speaker declined to
sldetrack the matter in that way,
holding, however, that to proceed a
proposition of some kind
Must Be Before the House.
Thereupon Mr. Richardson, the Demo.
cratic leader, offered a resolution de-
claring that the speaker had no right
to withhold speeches. Against this
the question of consideration was
raised by Mr.. Lacey and by strict
party vote the house decided not to
consider it. Amid still greater excite
ment and confusion Mr. Richardson
offered another resolution condemn
Ing the speakers action in severe
terms and directing that the speech
be delivered forthwith" to the public
printer. Again Mr.. Lacey raised the
question of consideration and again
by strict party vote the house re-
fused to consider it. At this point
further p oceedings were cut off by
an adjournment taken on motion Of
MIR. Payne, the floor leader of the ma
Jority and again sustained by strict
party vote.
Earlier in the day a partial confer
ence report on the Indian appropria-
ton bill was agreed to and the bill
was sent back to conference. The
western members made an Intellectual
effort to accept the senate amend
ment appropriating 100000 for irri-
cation experiments on the ella river
IN Arizona, but they were defeated,
58 to 81. The conference report on
the naval bill was beaten on account
OF an item creating assistant chiefs of
bureaus in the navy department, and
the motion to accept the senate amend
ment authorizing the construction of
three additional submarine boats was
pending when the incident above
mentioned was precipitated by Mr..
LentZ.