The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-22


IS so alive that he wiA ride down Penn.
sylVania avenue with the president on
week from Monday"
Mr.. Grosvenor sought To reply TO Mr..
LentZ, who refused to allow him TO io
so. Mr.. Grosvenor then angrily de-
clared that the gentleman from Ohio.
Mr.. Lentz. had been guilty of a ma
lcious falsehood "and he knows it,.
added Mr.. Grosvenor.
4 very sensational episode occurred
when the paragraph providing that
not over $50 should be paid for the ap
Drehension of a deserter from the army
was reached. This paragraph wts
seized upon bv Mr. Lentz for a base for
an attack. He declared that reports
were coming back from the Philippines
that our soldiers were killing prisoners
and said that he knew of letter re-
ceived by the father of a soldier in the
Philippines telling of how a native had
been buried alive by his captors and
then beheaded.
If that was the sort Of civilization
that was being carried into the Philip
pines, Mr. LentZ declared. il would take
$4,000 to prevent our soldiers from de-
serting. Again and again he shouted
that they were justified in deserting.
Mr.. LentZ's remarks aroused th-
house to fever pitch.
Mr.. Graham, republican, PennsyL
vania, challenged Mr.. Lentz to produce
the letter he had referred to, which
Mr.. Lentz replied could not be pro-
duced without getting the boy into
trouble.
Mr.. Cannon. in impressive tones, de-
clared that gentlemen who would rise
in their place in the American congress
and advise men who had enlisted under
the American flag to desert might be
ae.le mere but if they should say the
same things in the Philippines, theJ
would be tried by drum-head court
martial and shot.
This statement brought forth a round
of applause from the republican side,
but MI. Lentz returned TO the assault.
lie read a newspaper account Of a let
ter alleged to have been received by
the father of a soldier saying that the
soldiers were ordered to shoot every
man and beast they found. Mr.. Lentz
declared that he could not be brow
beaten" If such orders had been ie-
sued, he said, this congress collective
ly should be ashamed to face the world.
He charged that our soldiers were
guilty of murder and said that the Tins
had come when the country was en-
titled to know the facts and not to rely
Upon a censored press"
When the life Of the nation was al
the north stood behind the firing iiI-e
and encouraged desertion. 1 leave the
gentleman to the contempt of an indig
nant people :"
Was the gentleman in the firing
line?" cried Mr.. Lentz.
at matters not where 1 was" re-
torted Mr.. Cannon. Il was not dis
loyal then, nor now
MIR. Mahon. republican of Pennsyi-
vania, challenged Mr. Lentz to bring
in 4 resolution to ask the secretary of
war whether such orders as he had re-
ferred to ever had been issued.
Mr.. Mahon closed with an attack OH
Mr.. Lentz bv saying: Il am not sur
pulsed that the good people of Ohio lett
You at home-not because, as you
charged, that the administration pa.
100000 20 defeat you; you are not
.; til it-but because of your everlaSt-
ing demagogism."
This brought Mr.. Lentz to his feet.
When he declared himself a jefferson
ian-Lincoln democrat. the republicans
jaeTtd. Proceeding he charged that MS
defeat had been compassed by briber!
right and left. Il was Defeated II
concluded. you are welcome to me
glory and satisfaction"
Mr.. Grosvenor also paid his RESPECTS
To Mr. LentZ for terming himself fol-
Mr.. Moody. republican, of Massa-
chusetts, almost brought his side Of the
| house outstanding by reading an utter
dnce of Lincoln condemning more the
willy agitator'" who induced the sol
der to desert than the soldier himself.
HAS Massachusetts shot Senator
Hoar?' shouted Mr.. Lentz.
"Oh. get out" called Mr.. Dalzell, 1e
publican. Of Pennsylvania.
- Sherman offarad az, pndrnenl
| designed to prohibit haZing at the ma
val ecademv on penalty of dismissal
and nom eligibility for reappointmen-
| either to the academy or in the army
Or navy as a commissioned officer
This applies to cadets participating, en-
| couraging or countenancing the prac-
tice.
Without deciding a point Of order
| Immediately made by Mr.. Cannon, the
| house at $50 o'clock adjourned.
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