| Show LENTZ STIRS UP THE HOUSE Attack on Hannas Bribery Methods Rese te teG S f G R SAYS TirA S G S Philippine Discussion Also Causes Preat heat Excitement I Washington Feb The house finally passed the sundry civil appropriation bill today and entered upon consideration of the general deficiency the last of lh the general bills Mr Lentz of Ohio Democrat who ho in this and lid the previous congress attacked the a administration thereby arousing arou tg the bitter Itter enmity of Sanator Senator Hanna caused cau e a great deal of excite excitement meat ment i S Speaking to a pro forma form orma amendment a to the deficiency bIll Me Mr l Lentz had read a tt paragraph from a Columbus 0 O newspaper reporting the death of Charles Lyland territorial Judge of New Mexico who was at one time a member of the Ohio legislature and wo who voted for Mr Hanna for or United States senator With this paragraph as asa asa asa a text he attacked corruption in in high and asid low places p charging that a judicial place had been given Mr Lyland in re return return return turn for tor his vote for United States Senator Hanna Mr Steele Indiana made the point of order that t at Mr Lentz Lents was wa not speak speaking lag ing to the subject under consideration but was jumping on a dead man manI I am not jumping on a deaI ead man replied Mr Lentz but on a man who is so alive that he will wUl ride on Penn Pennsylvania sylvania avenue with the president one week from Monday I do not know Mr Lyland inter interrupted Interrupted Mr Cannon C Illinois emphatic emphatically ally aU but I do know the gentleman I from Ohio Brave men fight the living ghouls ravish the tombs of the dead That Teat is all I have to say Republic Republican an applause Later on Mr lIr Grosvenor tried trie to se secure secure i cure an opportunity o to reply to Mr lIr Lentz but Mr Lentz objected unless j twenty minutes were allowed on a t tIt side si e eIt It is not possible pO that my colleague will Insist upon his objection saUL Mr Grosvenor He e made an attack upon I a dead man and nd I desire five minutes to reply I 00 Idid not make m ake an attack upon a dead man n replied Mr I 1 made madean an expose of a live man I have the proof here if you desire to open up the Grosvenor Passes the lie Angered by I Mr refusal to allow him to l be e heard Mr Grosvenor ls venor with flushed face f and ud nd uplifted arm de declared dared that ute twe gentleman from Ohio Mr Lentz hd been bees guilty of ot a a malic malicious malicIous ious bus falsehood And he knows it added Mr Afew Af minutes afterward Mr lIr Lentz proposed that Mr Grosvenor be given fifteen and aDd he Lentz Lenta Len tz ten min minutes I utes ute Oh I object called out Mr Cannon I If gentlemen desire to wash vash w sh dirty linen they should uld hire a hull hall ha 11 t The Phe paragraph par providing that not over 60 50 should be paid for the apprehension hension of ot a deserted from the army was wag seized upon u n by Mr Lentz for a abase abase base from which to atack attack what he said s ld was wa going on in lu the Philippines Mid arid so disgusted American soldiers there that they deserted He declared that reports report were coming back hack from the Philippines to the en effect ct that th Am American American oilcan soldiers were killing kUling prisoners and he said that he knew of a letter received by the Ule father of a soldier r in inthe inthe inthe the Philippines s telling now flow a native had been burled bu ed alive allye I by his captors and then beheaded beb ded If that vas wa the sort of civilization that was being bein carried Into the Philip Philippines Philippines pines Mr Ir Lentz kentz declared it would take to prevent our soldiers from deserting t tr L I Mr r Lentas remarks aroused the house to fever feifer pitch M Graham liep Hel Ia Pa Challenged hall Mr Lentz Lents to toS toc S 1 c c 7 produce the letter lt he lie had referred to te He said he thought it existed only in inthe Inthe inthe the imagination NIC lt the gentleman le n from tram Ohio Mr Len declared d the letter could noi no be produced without witti ut getting the boy into trouble Mr lIr Cannon declared that a man who would woul rise in his Inee in inthe Inthe inthe the American co congress and advise men who rho had enlisted enl sted under the American flag fla to desert Might be safe h Jre re but butt if he should Mould say the same thing In the Philippines he would be tried by y head hd and shot This state situ statement e emen ment men brout t a 8 round of applause from fro the Republican Ikan side Lentz is Not Scared But Mr S Lentz Lz lz returned r to the as assault assault assault sault He real a newspaper account of ot a letter r l te the father er Of ofa a soldier aa soldiers we war a ordered to shoot shoo man ai a b t they found Mr Lentz declared he could at t be browbeaten eaten If lot such auch orders or rs had been issued he said this congress congre collectively should be a hamad to the world He charged That American soldiers were guilty gOulty of mur murder mur murder der and an said that the time come when the th country was entitled Jo J know the facts and not to rely upon a cen censored censored censored press Mr Cannon annon said the gentleman was lashing himself into a passion l u jon while the themen themen themen men he slandered were ere probably in inthe Inthe t the performance of their duty Mr Cannon Dannon said Id that in his life he hI had heard more eloquent men than tie e gen gentleman gentleman from Ohio encourage deserting dos When the life liCe of the nation was at atI stake he said men n all aU over the t h e north stood behind b tind the firing line and encouraged I aged desertion I leave the gentleman to the contempt of an indignant peo people pIe continued Mr lIr Cannon amid a awhirl whirl whirlwind Ind of applause as he took his seat Was the gentleman even on the fir firing ing in jIne line Jine cried Mr sIr Lentz HIt It matters rs not n where I was retort retorted ed Mr Cannon jumping to hip hi feet teel I Iwas Iwas Iwas was not disloyal then and what is ismore Ismore more mOle important I am not disloyal now Renewed Republican anau Mr lIr Mahon Rep Pa challenged Mr Lentz to bring in ina a resolution fo 0 ask the secretary of war ar whether stIch ter S ders as he had referred to ever had I been issued The result of such an In Inquiry inquiry he said would show that the I report of the committee was tU a false falsehood falsehood hood hoed I have heard such speeches sp as the gentleman delivered before he no continued They are but a revamp of the copperhead speeches from 1861 1361 to 1866 1506 The copperhead charged every crime in the calendar to the Union sol soi soldiers soldiers diers The boys in the Philippines PhiliPP Jn s 5 are deserting because you encourage them to desert and the man who encourages ages a them to desert is worse than th Jl the deserter During the rebellion I i thought if or of th the copper copperheads heads had been eliot we would not l been troubled with desertion of those men still live thank God tod od very II few Tew There none in my state Neither the people nor the press pres of my I state would be paid Daid aid to make Uch charges as 86 the gentleman hits hiLS h made madeI le I lam Iam am not surprised that the good people I left you at home not because you charged that the administration paid P aId to defeat you you are not riot worth v th it but because of your demagoguery Defeated by Bribery I This brought Mr 11 Lentz Lents again qin to his bill feet When he declared himself a Jef fe f I Democrat tho tha Republicans Be Re publicans jeered Proceeding he charged that his defeat had bed beep been corn com compassed passed by bribery right end and an left I was defeated he concluded You are welcome to the glory and satisfaction ff tion of ot it 1 It is a great satisfaction observed Mr Mahon amid I Mr Grosvenor also paid s sto to Mr Leitz Le tz for terming himself hims lf a fol follower ol lower of Jefferson and Mr Moody Republican of Massachusetts ehu also aIst brought blOught his side of house ehouse up tip standing by reading rending an utterance p of Lincoln condemning more th wil agitator who induced the to desert than the soldier himself Has Massachusetts shot Senator Hoar shouted Mr Lentz the applause was resounding through the hall hail r S SOh Oh get out called Mr Dalzell Rep Pa PaThe PaThe PaThe The excitement then and the consideration of the bill was vas WB re vu resumed resumed S Hazing Amendment Goes Joes Out Oit O t Mr Sherman Rep N Y ot of Ii the tn following amendment nw Mr Cannon successfully raise point of order Provided further That the superintendent of the naval academy shall make such suh rules to be approved t hi y the secretary sec of th the navy nay as will prevent the practice of hazing bazing and any cadet found guilty o participating in or encouraging or Continue on Page 3 y i c STIRS UP THE HOUSE Continue from Page 3 k such practice shall salI not there thereafter thereafter after be reappointed to the corps E irps of cadets or be for appointment as a commissioned officer in the army or navy The proceedings were by a humorous speech made by Mr M Allen of Mississippi in fn favor of an ai amend amendment amendment ment meat offered offeree by him to the civil appropriation bill bUl appropriating o O for a fish hatchery at Tupelo rUss Miss Mr Allen goes out of congress S March 4 after a service of f sixteen years ears He declared that thousand and millions of unborn fish were clamoring to tIde this congress for the opportunity of being b ing born in Tupelo Mr Allens home The amendment was unanimously adopted The question of rearranging the halt hall hallof haltof of representatives for the accommodation tion of members in accordance e with a aplan aplan aplan plan agitated some seine Some years ago to re ye remove remove move the seats and substitute benches something after the manner In which the house of is arranged came up on a motion made by Mr Crumpacker of Indiana to appropriate for refurnishing and ing the hall of the house of represent representatives representatives representatives including the removal of f the individual desks of members and the reduction of the size sine and reseating of ot the hall hell in a manner that will vili be most convenient for fol the sessions of the tho house The amendment also provided provi ed for the refurnishing of the speakers room The proposition was debated at considerable length and then defeated to |
