The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-06

sist of four Pinch breech-loading rifles,
mounted tive in each superposed turret
on the centre line of the vessel, eight
eigbt-inch breech-loading rifles, mounted
two in each s,tperposed turret and two in
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| defense of the republican party. Mr.. De-
Armond he said, had indicted the leaders
on the floor of the house for an attempt
to cover up crime
Calls for Particular Crime.
What crime?" Mr. Grosvenor asked.
has been committed in any one of the
branches of the administration of the fed
eral government, and by whom
He sarcastcally remarked that when
| a member of the house knew enough to
hurl in the face of the majority of the
house the charge that they We're covering
up and protecting crime, "he ought to
know enough to make somea statement
| that somebody somewhere had committed
some crime" He declared, amid laugh
ter, that since the reference to the post
| office report in the house. the democrats
had gone through a series of agonizings.
why are you opposed to investigating
| the department." inquired Mr. Dear
| mond.
For the manifest reason" said Mr..
Grosvenor, that the department has been
thoroughly investigated.
| All wrong-dong had been laid bare He
| challenged Mr.. DeArmond to tell us
what you know shold be laid bare"
Mr.. Grosvenor said this had been shown
" nv VoiiFieiiohs III washington Balt-
more new YORK and elsewhere. And,
ne saiu referring TO the ST. Louis cases,
SO lar as we know OF there is no ready
maze, wiling supreme court to set at lib
erty everybody who should be convicted"
Democratic aDDlAnsa followed N ipo1lirx-
| from Mr.. DeArmond as to whether the
| gentleman would provide one IL the sta
tute of limitations Is found to be INSULT
Gent
| Mr. Grosvenor facing the democratic
| side, said that your entire clamor ana
your libelous attacks have been basel
, upon nothing but a deliberate purpose TO
| tarnish the administration of vour gov
| eminent in the interest of party politics"
He assured the democrats that If they
would come in with n single charge IN
| writing that somebody had committed
| crime In the postoffce department and
| had gone unprecedented .'they will have
an investigation instantly"
A.,
axes Up tne arm.
BranchlnB OH On the tariff, he called on
MI DeArmond to state what ought to
De changed In the tariff.
Ihere would not be ten of you" he
salu, lhat Will name the same Item, no
i've OF you Will come within 90 per cent
OF IL, ara none OF you Will agree upon
all OF the items of the tariff, at which
there was much laughter. He scored the
democratic party on the tariff question as
being composed of "disorderly, disor-
ganized, broken-up. dismembered, heteI-
skelter crowd lie then got Into an ar
gnment with Mr.. Clark of Missouri re-
garding differences In the tariff question,
and said there was no difference of epir
ion as to the true basis on which protec-
ton must stand. When the time comes
to amend the tariff, he vehemently stat
ed I'VE will amend it,
crosvanor =" deoiared tbnt ~ sl"s.s' ra Nr u,
rraise or approval of the sherman anti
trust law had come from democratic
sources He defended the President for
his attitude concerning trusts. saving eft
Is enough 70 Mr. Roosevelt TO show that
he took a law that had been condemned
nv the democratic marty and cast ont as
worthless and made it the most effective
weaoon and engine for the suppression of
nIawful and Injurious trusts that man
ms ever dreamed could he nut ON ma
statute hooks of the country"
At the end of an eloouent panegyric on
The henefits 10 come from the Presidents
action in the canal situation. Mr.. Fitz-
GERALD of New York inquired of Mr.. Gros-
Sen ,,a@ . ~" ~ : ''''''' - = ' -
"IJaven't Won forgotten somethine?'i
Mr. crosvenor convulsed the house
vhan no ranlIad after besitatine mo-
ment al have Forgotten more than Won
tnouo
MOI narturhed nv this retort. MIR Fitz-
Gerald asked ~ there should he added to
the inscrintion the fact that the Ameri-
CON naonie we're heartily ashamed Of
the wav thev cot the Panama canal
routa
M crosyanor ren,ied "Sevara1 littla
nenn,e GOT that way ana so did several
lilo naonla 6ITt no one dared condemn the
actian 81 the president In that matter
Challenges the Democrats.
He challenged the democrats to come
forward now and fool with the very