Arizona republican., 1904-03-10
HORNETS NEST
Mir. BristOw Stirred Up
 One in the House
A LIAR AND SCOUNDREL
Some of the Epithets Applied to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen. eral-It is Evident That His De- partment Will Be Investigated.

Washington, March 9.-That an in- vestigation of the postoftice department by the house of representatives will result from tho publication of the re- port involving members of the con- gress in that connection, was indicated by every action possible, short of a vote in that body today. W ith a whirl- wind of protest the report was taken up by indignant members, their per sonal connection with it explained and epithets hurled at Fourth Assistant Postmaster Brlstow.
 MT. Williams, the democratic leader. urged a complete investigation of the whole postOfice department and re- ceived the hearty applause of both sides Of the house.
 Replying to the charge made by Win. Alden Smith that facts about the post office department had beer suppressed, MT. Hepburn, republican of Iowa said:
 There is no member of this house whc desires to screen anybody in this matter" He was applauded at this, and continuing he said:
 T WanC to go to the very bottom. We have shown our willingness"
 
 ruption in the posJofiice department il- vestigated, not by the friends of the men who have been guilty of corruption but by the house of representatives As to the Hay resolution, MT. Williams said it did not touch the question. add ing somebody in the postoffice depart ment has somehow included in inc re- port the nare of man after m1Il in the house of representatives and in the senate guilty of no apparent wrong, guilty of no violation of any law, guilty of no moral obliquity, guilty of nothing that bears even the tinge of criminal ity.
 What was the motive of it Wasn't 1 it to give the congress notice that the department held something over con- gress and congress had better let the | department alone?" he inquired. llS words being drowned by applause from Doth sides.
 Are you going to meet it?" he se- manded.
 Mir. Cooper of Wisconsin, followed and said he was -ons-of, the-Tnembcrs under indictment. No member of the house" he said, whose name was in the list, coupled with that of 4. W.. Machen, whom the country knoUs and | the world knows as a convicted felon on his way to the penitentiary, has the right to stand up in the house and ask for moments delay upon the re- pudiation
 Mir Moon, of Tennessee insisted that there should be an investigation covering the postoffice department and everybody connected with it.
 But" said he, "I take it that no sensible man will deny that there is anything else but crime running all over that department" Turning to the republican side, he exclaimed, You stand as a protecting shield against an investigation" Continuing, he said: "The thieves being yours and not ours, it is for you not to say if they shall have your protection" General GrosvenOr, of Ohio, who was named in the report, was con- vulsed with laughter by the reading of an editorial which referred Go Speak CT Cannon and Representatives Payne and Hill as having been taken 'red hand" But speaking seriously, he said it was in accord with the views of 95 per cent of the newspapers of the l country. The reoprt was libel on 191 members of the house and senate. He N1hbtu AO hiiON Dy MDdl iIsul lIt Bristow report was published before the action of any tribunal had estab- Iished the truth of it.
 In order to show what he termed "The infinite rascaiity' of the Bristow report MT. Grosvenor referred to th5 cases in which Eis name was men, toned. "I will resign my seat tomor- row" he said, pounding his desk, ''if there is anything improper in what did"
 This report, ne added, would bt printed abroad and it would be sait that in the American congress there were 191 ra3cals.
 ''The Bristow report" he said, il conclusion, Twas Torn in iniquity and conceived in sin, and had travelled it. course until it struck the public of the United States as great attack on body of men as free from wrong doing corruption, crime and irregularity as an equal number of men on the face ot the earth
 MT. Hill of Connec ticut, likewise mentioned in the Bristow report de nied that he had done anything i'm proper. He read from national paper. and called attention to the omission from the Bristow report of certain in. dorSementS.
 Was it malce, or was it ignorance : or what was it?'' he asked. He had, ht said, submitted certain questions tC Bristow, answers to which were re fused. "I am going to vote for a reso lutior to investigate myself and inves tigate the fourth assistant postmaster general he said, amid a round of ap plause. Holding up copy of the re port, MT. Hill declared: That docu ment is the production of liar and scCundrel"
 The naval appropriation bill was sen - to conference, the speaker appointing Messrs. Foss, Dayton and Meyer a , conferees on the present house.