Show A PROTEST FROM THE HOUSE A lt Sorts of at Bristow 4 I I IS I TO KAVE A t t v v Investigation of the de by the house of se will result from the c of the report involving o f congress In that connection as In d by every expression s hort of In that toaty w lt a of protest the report w as taken up by indignant members th personal connection with it ex p and epithets hurled at Fourth A General Bristow Mr the Democratic leader u a complete Investigation of the w hole department and re cai c the hearty applause of beth ai des of the house and the galleries I t soon was found that the two hours w had been allotted to the subject w not be nearly enOugh to meet th e personal explanations which mem h ers were demanding the right to m ake and a motion to extend the de b ate until 4 car n ed When the house met tile invocation w an delivered by Rev 1 3 DollIver fa ther of Senator of Iowa Im ii thereafter W Bourke Cork ns a who wa to Mayor M from the Twelfth o f New York was sworn Three Bourn Not Enough lr Overstreet qt chairman o f the committee on j roads wH recognized H hat h salt consulted with members on b oth sides of the houte who n time than three hours to die o u the Hay resolution bearing on the B charges In connection with p He therefore a of the consideration o f the resolution until next Monday Mr Rep Ia said that a ny Investigation of the de p would not elicit any facts n ot brought out by the committee nO i ort I say an investigation would elicit f urther facts and that the facts have b een suppressed retorted William Al d Smith amid loud applause from th e floor and galleries Replying Mr Hepburn said There i s no of title house who de s tres to In this matter H was applauded at this remark and c said I want to go to th e very bottom We have shown our w Rouse Should Investigate Mr Williams said he wanted the cor r in the department I not by the friends of the I un who have been guilty of the cot r but by the house of s As to the Ilay resolution Mr s aid it did not touch the adding SOmebody at the department h as some how included In hie report tin n ni ame of man man in the hOusS 01 i and In the senate r o f no apparent wrong guilty of no viols on of any law guilty of no moral oh Ii qty of nothing bears ever 1 t he tinge of criminality What was the or IL I t o give the notice that the e p something over congre 5 14 that congress had better let the de p amos be Inquired his I b eing drowned by applause from boti I s ides Are you going to nicer It he de m ended He inquired of Mr Hepburn it the poin t o forder was to be made in the name o f t perty and its policy ais Good Name at Stake Mr Cooper of foll wed ant I s aid he was one of the members under ih i No members or the house h e said whose name was in the list with that of A W the country knows and the World k is a convicted felon on his way t o the penitentiary has the right to stand the house and ask for a moments d ahti upon the resolution remark elicited loud applause from b oth sides of the house and in the gal l eries which time bad filled up t o the Speaking with much feeling Mr Cooper said knows better than I do whether I am guilty If he Is guilty he said he wont d elay Again he was There ws no question of Ig the matter j One man a and thc whom we expect to go On the road is a lie that President b ad directed the of members o f his own party Moon f next got the flood and facing the said saidi i i the point of order you guiti a a shield an ann i n he said that the thieves be leg yours and not ours it is not for you 05 to say it they have your pro protection Debate Begins Mr then ilK motion t i end the proceeded to the under the order al l owing an hour and a half to each side Mr took the floor and said that may be the truth of the allegations in the several indictments officials the mere fact that the various of in cOngre passed the hade of attn conduct baa been severely criticised and whose l have been threatened nor improper on part said that the ther r of members referred to In the report the usual line of relative to In for clerk hire at third O and the mat matIts Its it rent The which the of hire at such was the test to uie It can be ekl with absolute assurance or accuracy ho continued that there in no Instance any violation ot any law whatever by an of eon gress in any for Increase of hire show of increase of rent of I Against Investigation The an I ori by uI members of this body be whereas a of au number 4 States both parties in politics has al rady it in a ruper tsa this and baa unanimously re JorUt to the house that there Is no need for further Investigation nor would further investigation elicit facts t change Its moved that debate eon until 4 tomorrow which was to unanimously Mr insisted that there nfl covering the department and ton with It And 4 guIlty whether in this house or in the should be exposed rEf of the hoses was entitled to vindication as were also the department guilty r Dut said he 1 tak It that no sensible man will deny that thero is anything else but crime running nfl that department Against Bristow V IV N C charged Mr with having important and material facts Facts he mal pounding his desk could not be and which in my judgment for the of giving a false tin to the and the actIon was neither nor but fOr Its the an in ir said lie in In my judgment to 4 r ud to Si I thi It of in t of the a storm f lasting for a General 0 at the report said t his wa specimen of the tile of t he great bed of the D or a 1 assume might as s sr ome Ha the house by sS r an editorial which referred to S Cannon and Representatives r and Hill as having been taken r landed ut seriously Vi Vio e said it ws in accord wi this views Vic Vio o f 0 per cent Of the newspapers of the c The report libel o n li of the house senate I submit he said that the g asa Which the gentleman from Indiana t tv ea fo is an and a v of ever principle of justice P Pm followed this state m Ito knew ly whet right th e report had been published b th action of any tribunal had e truth of In order to bow what he termed tho rae O of the Bristow report Mr Ores v eror the in bite D ams I will resign my s sd tomorrow lie salt pounding hiSs d esk If there Its anythIng Irregular or i in what I did Show of Indignation Then showing the or his indig n na Mr Grosvenor his desk a ant said I condemn the man manat th at sent Into this house Can any i eer enter t he office of the man will s uch a document as that This report he added be printed a broad and It would be said that in the A Ac merican there wc ms mst c t If the department bad s ome official whose judgment wan so d by the opinion of a congressman t he official had better b turned out he d The report be said I n concluSion was in inIquity and C in sin and had traveled itz c ourse until It bed the public of th i United States as zt great attack on a h otly of men as free from wrongdoing c nd irregularity s an e of inca on the the e arth Mr Lilley who van charged in t he report with being a violator o os t in leaning ft building at Win s ted Coon to the government for float o purpose that within t hours after bin attention had bb b een called to the statute In question he b ad made Personal application at the p department tim have the lease c First Assistant Postmaster l Wynne had him to delay t he matter that he might take it up with ti ter law department He had been in f by a written opinion the d two days his elec ti on to Congress id not Invalidate the l ease In any way Butler Defends Mr Butler Pa mem memer h er said he never before understood the d of representatives but Ito floW c them to be of singular and inactivity He differed he eId from General Bristow anti ho would d efy anyone to close the doors of the d de to him What my e ats are entitled to he vigorously r m they shall have and added Bristow or no Bristow Who e ver bad assailed him he said was a c oward Mr Conn likewise mentioned in t he Bristow report denied that he had d one anything improper read from t he original papers and called attention to the omission from time report of c ertain endorsements therein Was it m alice or vas it ignorance or what wan I Im t lie inquired lie had he said sub m certain questions to General Bris t tI ew to which flan refused I am going to Vote for it resolution t in instigate v myself and to investigate the f general lie said a round of applause up a copy o oc f Mr de c That document is t hen of a liar and a scoundrel Bristow Report Mr Thompson Ala alse named itt t he report characterized the report as in f amous and having for Its object the In t tt or members In order t keep t heta from insisting on Mr Robinson Ark demanded an in of the entire de p it having confessed to beIng to conduct its affairs with a fair degree of seeming propriety Mr Cooper Win Interrupted Mj Rob i lison and said he lied been informed by t mold member of the house that General l trembling from illnesS told t hat member that he had never neverseen seen the report as It was nw printed Therefore said Mr Cooper I think the abuse of him ought to ston The naval appropriation bill was sent to t Ime conference the speaker appointing Foes Dayton and con frese on the part of the house and at 5 the house adjourned |