Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-10
Indignant Rep7esentativesTake
Up Bristow's Report With
WhirlWind of Protest
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS MADE
Bristow Accused by Ono of Having
Deliberately Suppressed Important
and Material Facts for Purpose OF
Giving False Impression to the
Country and Misleading the Public.

washington, March 10.--rfat an
investigation of the postoffice depart
maut by the house of representatives
will result from the publication of the
report involving members of congress
lin that connection was indicated by
vote in that body yesterday. With a
whirlwind of protest the report Was
taken up by indignant members, their
personal connection with it explained,
and epithets hurled at Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow.
The Bristow report WAS conceived
in iniauity, born in sin and has trav-
ele.d it's course until it has struck the
public of the United States as great
attack on a body Of men as free FROM
wrong doing. corruption, crime ana lr-
regularity as any equal number OF men
on the face of the earth"
This was the parting shot OF Repre-
sentative Grosvenor in paying his triD
ute to the report
THAT document is the production OF
a liar and a scoundrel,' shouted Rep
resantatiye Hill, of Connecticut is
making an explanation of his connee-
ton with certain leases. He added
that he would vote both to investigate
himself and also the fourth assistant;
postnla ster general.
There is nothing in any of 1t to I'M
pugn any improper motive Or conduct
on any member of the house. SAID
Chairman Overstreet, of the committee.
who combatted the idea of an invest s
CATION
Mr.. Williams, the democratic leader,
urged a complete investigation OF the
whole postoffice department and re
ceived the hearty applause OF Doth
sides of the house and the galleries.
1t soon was found that the two hours
which had been allotted to the subjec;
was not going 10 be near enough time
for the personal explanations which
members were demanding the right t.
make, and motion to extend the de-
bate until o'clock today was carried
Rristow is Accused
w. w. Kitchin. of North Carolina.
deliberately suppressed important AMI
material facts, facts he said. pound
ing his desk. which could not be over
looked. and which were suppressed. IN
my Judgment, for the purpose of CIV
ing false impression to the country
and misleading the public.
He undertook, in nay judgment, TO
blackmail congress- TO silence congress
and to silence the country. H. is a spe-
cies of intimidation" He asked ii the
republicans would sit still ana stop the
Investigation, and thus give the back
biters an opportunity to attack the
character and integrity Of those whom
Bristow had accused.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, who was
named in the report, said that this was
pretty good specimen of the readi
ness with which the newspapers of
the country and the great body of the
people grasped publication or state
nent and assumed evil where they
might assume good. He conNulsed the
house by reading an editorial which
referred to Speaker Cannon and Rep
resentatiyes Payne and Hill as hav-
ing been taken red handed but
speaking seriously, he said. 1t was in
accord with the views OF 95 per cent
of the newspapers of the country. The
report was malicious libel on 191
members of the house and The senate.
Il submit said he, that the investi-
CATION which the gentleman from In
diana has been apologizing for is an
outrage and a violation of every prin-
ciple of justice" Prolonged applause
this statement.
He wanted to know by what right
the Bristow report had been published
before the action of any tribunal had
established the t-uth of 1t. In order
to show what he termed "the infinite
of the Bristow report, Mr..
explained the cases in which
his name was mentioned. Il viii re-
sign my seat tomorrow, he said,
pounding his desk, 'if there is any.
thing irregular or improper in what |
did" Then showing the effects of his
Indignation, Mr.. Grosvencr pounded
his desk again and again and said: Il
the man that sert that into
this house. Can any respecting
ever enter the office of
the man who will produce such doc
ument as that?"
This report, he added, would be
printed abroad and 1t would be said
that in the American congress there
were 191 rascals. If the ppstoffce de-
partment and some official whose
judgment was so dwarfed by the opin-
ion OF a congressman the official had
better be turned out, he declared.
Mr.. Cooper, of Wisconsin, said he had
been informed by an old member of
the house that General Bristow "trem-
bling from illness" told that member
that he CBristow) had never seen the
report as it is now printed. There
fore" said Mr.. Cooper. 81 think the
abuse of him ought to stop