Show CRITICISED BY BAILEY Mr Bailey expressed hearty concurrence concur-rence in what he called the caled candid admission ad-mission of the gentleman from Maine that the coinage feature amounts to nothing and practically is but a reiteration reiter-ation of what is already law He then criticised generally the bill as framed chiefly as burdensome to those who were least able to bear additional addi-tional burdens Mr Simpson Pop Kan attacked the bond prpvision a unnecessary ADMINISTRATION ARRAIGNED J A severe arraignment of thefailure f t of the war to bring relief to the suffering suffer-ing people in Cuba was interjected in the debate by Mr Pierce Dem Tenn After reviewing the demands for war upon the ground of humanity he attacked at-tacked vhat he declared the negligence of the administration and its failure to relieve quickly the distress ini Cuba which had largely precipitated hostili tiesWhere Where now are the staling women and children to whom our warships were to take other ships laden with food cried Mr Pierce They are all dead a member says and it is true All that will greet our soldiers and sailors when they land on Cuban soil will be as suggested by another the bleaching bones of women and children as the monumental evidence of the humanitarian humani-tarian policy of this Republican administration admin-istration Further digression from the bill was indulged in by Mr Swanson Dem Va who very vigorously dissented from any inclination to turn the war into one of aggression to end with this country holding great colonial possessions pos-sessions He attacked the bond and other features of the 1111 notable the tobacco tax Mr Swanson took occasion to criti else the administration in its conduct of the war and particularJy did he antagonize an-tagonize the pending bill conducive to interests of monopolists and the very rich richTIRADE TIRADE FROM GROSVENOR The speech brought from Mr Gros venor Rep 0 an impassioned and highly sensational response Had Sagasta had Blanco had Cer vera been given the opportunity to make a speech on this occasion they would not have made so incendiary a speech on this occasion they would not have made so incendiary an appeal against the prosecution of this war as the gentleman from Virginia has uttered ut-tered I denounce his unpatriotic purposes pur-poses I denounce his unpatriotic and untruthful utterances uterances Continuing he referred to the Virginian Vir-ginian as representing a contestable district and was bitterly personal in his declarations charging the Virginia member with narrow political motives A laugh was created in the midst of the Ohioans terrific tirade when he referred re-ferred to the battleship Oregon a haying hay-ing recently sunk a confederate torpedo tor-pedo boat He explained the mistake by the unpatriotism of the gentleman from Virginia Mr Swanson in a twominute reply said The only reason I can give for the unfair unjust unpatriotic and untrue un-true personal attack upon me is that the speaker is in such a condition that he does not know whether he is fighting fight-ing the confederate or Spanish forces GROSVENORS SOBRIETY He then proceeded with an eloquent defense of his district Later Mr Swan son again secured the floor and declared de-clared his belief that the Ohio cared Oho member mem-ber would never have made the brutal mae attack had he been sober Mr Grosvenor being again recognized recog-nized declared he had attacked the sentiment of the Virginians speech and not the personality of the member He denied having referred to the lat ters district as contemptible and I said he had used the word contest usec wor able contetI This declaration was greeted with hisses and general protests from the Democrats and corroborative expressions expres-sions from the Republicans He denounced de-nounced Mr Swansons insinuation that he Grosvenor was not sober as a weapon which no honorable opponent woulduse in progress ir a debate such as the one t The Democrats jeered and the Republicans I Repub-licans applauded the denunciation Following the GrosvenorSwanson episode ep-isode Mr Hill of Connecticut Hender son of Iowa Moody of Massachusetts Payne of New York and McMillan of 1 Tennessee spoke I Mr Hill declared he would vote against the bill because of the coinage provision embodying a he believed a giving of some new life to the dead issue but the other Republicans who addressed the house contended that it would affect no more than the law at present provided in the matter of silver I sil-ver coinage and was not open to serious ser-ious objection I REPORT ADOPTED The vote on the conference report was taken at 1 oclock resulting Yeas 164 nays 107 The Republicans who voted against the adoption of the conference report I 0 the war revenue bill were Brewster Henry Connecticut Hill I Littauer Mclntire The Democrats who voted for the Democrts voed report re-port were Cummings Driggs Fitzgerald Mc Aleer McClellan At 1135 the house adjourned |