Show M CLEVELAND Lf L LW W AS LIED T lie He Declares it is False That C II 1 Taylor a n Negro Lunched With Him lIim a White House LIE MADE OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH He lie Made M I e This Statement In a Letter to Rep Webb In Reply to 10 Rep Scotts Assertion Washington March house MUllo today In n committee of ot the Iho whole resumed con consideration consideration of ot the th District of Columbia ap appropriation appropriation bill Mr Webb N C calling attention to toh the Ihn h statement made a IL I ew w days daYI ago by Sir Mr Scott ICon Kan that n a negro hind had dined In n the White House M Cleveland was W S president announced that he lie hud had written the tho former pr president sending him ilm an tin extract front from the tho record and ask oak lag UK If IC the tho statements made mude by Mr Ir Scott were true This morning he lie said uld I 1 received following reply which he lie read rend amid ap ai on the tha Democratic side as all follows fallows Princeton March larch 2 l E W Si Webb ebb House of Dear Is 15 a matter of ot small concern to tomo tome toma mo me that list a n Mr Scott has haa seen M ln fit nt to uso use my name In a display of ef his evil eit pro propensities on the tha door of ot th the Iho house of at rep representatives In lit n answer anwer to your our Inquiry however I have to say nay Il of his hla statement that tho th colored man C II J Taylor alor took lunch with mo roe nt at the tha White House that It II Is n a deliberate out of ot the th holo cloth As Au far as all Mr Taylor Is concerned I understand prior to his appointment as us register of deeds at Washington that thal ho ha hill hal served as an nn assistant In tho office omco of the tho city attorney at nt Kansas City Ills nomination as an register was confirmed by bytho bythe bythe the tho senate nate and ho served In iq that place with Intelligence anti and with efficiency Ho lie Hohas has zinc since died Some people restrain themselves front a inline abusing the tho dead My concerning Mr Ir Taylor lalor be he before toro fore Ms his appointment my toy observation of him during his Incumbency and the lUll little lUllI I 1 have known or him him since convinces ma tao mathat that his hll character Is 18 very tory er unjustly at ai attacked attacked tacked In the diatribe of ot Mr r One charge chargo Is lii rondo mado t Mr Taylor laylor by b Mr Scott which bo Ito doubly clinches with wIt truth when ho he declares ho Ito was A n black Hack negro I 1 am ala led however to doubt hi familiarity with his subject when he ho headds adds AH Ma black us as you ever saw law lawYour Your cry Iry truly CLEVELAND Mr Webb ebb said Mold he hI wanted wonted this denial to travel that thaI tie the statement of ot Mr Ir Scott bo be overtaken Mr Ir Cleveland wa was n a friend of ot tho the negro but not u a 1 fool friend Mid gald Mr r Webb ebb Ho Io never by word or action en on tho Iho dream of or social the Ito breast of or the black man manThis manThis This was greeted with applause by the tho Democrats AK In ho lie continual he was as tie the friend 01 of the colored man mon but he lie was Also Il o the th friend of ot tie o southern white mon man monand and sympathized with us In our race mee problems and race burdens anti and that sir sirIs m Is 14 more moore then than Mr seems ever eor everto everto to 10 have done Mr Scott raid paid he ho h accepted tho the state statement ment meat of ot Mr Cleveland as true troD and made apology to 1 the former president In irs jus justice tice to himself said ald Mr Scott acou the state meat ment hal hoj never neer been bon denied Mr Swanson nt a asked Mr Ir Scott where ho he bad hll heard the lile report to o 0 which Mr air Scott replied that ho lie Imd seen a en the statement In n newspapers Mr Swanson naked further for Cor a ropy copy Cap of ot a n newspaper per containing cont time tho statement Mr Scott ex u explained that these statements were mauo maus several years Mrs AgO ngo arid ond th the papers paper might not bo be easily procured Ha lie said that he lad bad made mad full Cull apology to Mr Mn Cleveland Mr Scott coll l that he lie had brought to Mr Cleveland for tor the first t time In four tour years applause I from the Iho Democratic lIdo aide This was wan W II loudly Applauded Upon the tho hi ma non majority side of If tho the chamber |