Show NEAR A FIGHT 1 II I I Red Hot Time Occurs io i 1 floll e COlllmittee on I iitary Alfaies I BITTER LANGUAGE USED I 1 Lentz and Cheney Clash Lie Virtually Passed ALL MEMBERS TAKE A HAND I I Lentz Had But One Object In View When Ho Introduced the Resolution II I I Resolu-tion to Inquire into the Coeur I dAlcne Mining TroublesHe Desired De-sired to Put the President in a Hole Hoped to Show That President 0 Exceeded Authority in Complying With Gov Steunenbergs Demand I for Troops Ho Has Failed Completely l Com-pletely One Thing Ho Has Demonstrated I Demon-strated However is That He Cannot I Can-not be Fair in His Examination Stounonbergs Course Sustained by Nearly All the Members oIic TRIBUNE BUREAU 601 Fourteenth street f t Washington D C March 2S 1900 Representative Lentz of Ohio who poses as the champion ofth oppressed has stirred up a row whichhe did not intend when introduced the resolution resolu-tion Inquire into the C e dAlene mining troubles last year J I I Mr Lentz has only one object In view He desired to put Administration I I inahole IsaLthCnhjw1th J the Idea of showing that The President I overstepped his authority when he compiled com-piled with the demand of theGovernor I of Idaho Thus far he has utterly failed In the effort 1 BUCKEYE CANNOT BE FAIR He had demonstrated however that he cannot be fair In his examinations and he has also shown that If there Is any blame to attach to Any r one In authority au-thority of the Coeur dAle troubles it attaches to a Democratic Stale administration ad-ministration and not to the Republican national administration RESPECT FOR STEUNENBERG Gov Steunenberg however has won the respect of all those who have heard his evidence except the rank partisans of the Lentz breed The members of the House who have followed his testimony tes-timony are of the opinion almost unan imously that had he taken any other course of action it would certainly have resulted in incalculable damage to private I pri-vate properly |