Show 1 l V DISCUSSION I jf t t r POSTOFFICE ST f I Bills Billi I 1 I I Ir r I i I Mr Ir Grosvenor Makes it Occasion t To Defend the Republican 4 Forty P t t 1 t i ti ASKS SOME POINTED QUESTIONS II I I j jit t i it Wants to lo Inow Know What Has lias qt Been Committed by A lay laya ay 0 DJ lf a Derailment t j i Washington April A G GIn LIn In tho Iho of oft t representatives representative today discussion of the thu bill hill opened tho thu way wa for lor political J t cal talk Mr Grosvenor started the ball bull b r 4 devoting himself to a 11 defense of or tho thu He fled Het t publican party parly Mr Do De Armond he heI I had Indicted tho the leaders lenders of or tho thu Ii IiI I I house for tor nn On attempt to 10 cover up III crime crime Mr Grosvenor stoked asked has been committed In any uny ono of ot the tho t branche of ot the tho administration of ot the tha th tt federal government and hy by h whom m lie sa remarked CIL that when hen henin in member of or the he house know knew enough to I hurl In the tho faro of ut Iho tho majority of or tha tho t the tho charge that they wore cover coer coverIng covery y J log Ing up lip protecting crimes ho he if ought to know knots enough to make soma Benin nt jI t statement that hut lody I f 1 Ho Ito do tie y maid that sinco thu tho reference tp to i the report r port In lu Inthe luthe Ij the house the tho Democrats hats had gout con II through a n II of ot Why are uro you ou opposed to lion Inquired Mr Ir Do Armond r For the manifest reason renson said Mr Ir f Grosvenor or that Ilia t the tha department has ban I been JI o thoroughly Investigated tell All wrong doing has hua been laid bare Mr Mir Grosvenor said Fuld this thin had been licen by tho tha convictions In Washing if ton Now No York and else elsewhere tat 1 where And he said Mid referring to tho the fit St toUla loul U boodle eases BO so tar far us as we WO r know Ino of ot there Is no ready rendy made milling willing every I supreme court to dot bet at lib y every body bOlly who should be convicted M Facing 1 tho the Democratic side Mr i Grosvenor said MId lour four our entire clamor r k and your libelous attacks have b been cn en X based upon nothing but n a 1 deliberate purpose to tarnish the Ihl administration of f four your our government In tin 11 tho the Interest Int of or party parly Jart politics Ho Ito the Demo Democrats that lint If It they would como coma In with witha a n a single charge In writing that some n body hotly had committed a n crime In III tho the j department and had gone KOlIo un prosecuted they tIey will have havo un y gallon Instantly y r Branching off otton on an the tariff he called on Mr Ir Do Armond to tn state atalo what ought l M to be changed In the tho tariff There would bo no ten of ot you ho that will 1111 name tho the sumo name committee no II of ot you that will como come within 60 LO per percent I cent of It and none nono of or you will 1111 agree on ni all nil y of 01 the Items t of tho the tariff at al which there was much laughter lie Ho liea a scored the Democratic party on tho lima tariff question as being composed of at a n 1 d dismembered heiter crowd ti lie not got Into an argument with Mr Ir Clark of or Missouri r regarding differences s or of 0 opInion among Publicans on the tho ther tariff question qU sUon and said there was waa no pet difference of ot opinion as to the tho true basis on which protection must stand When r tho the time comet comes to amend the tariff ho he vehemently stated we will amend It It Taking up the tho subject of or trusts Mr r 4 Grosvenor declared that not ual one word of ot praise e or of ot tho Sherman t net act had come from Democratic sources Murcell Ho Ito defended the president for his hla at nt concerning trusts Baying saying lilt it Is t enough for lor Mr Roosevelt to tl show that pat 1 no ho took the tho law Ill that had been con COli j by b the tho Democratic party anti vt I flat i t out oat us liS worthless worthies and made iliad It the tho N most effective weapon engine for or f tho the suppression of ot unlawful and In III I Jurou trusts lint man has over 11 i dreamed dr could cold be put rut on 01 thu tho statute books Ho lib mentioned tho the dents dent in III connection with the 2 investigation and the tho Panama 41 t I chant canal treaty In tho thu latter cn case s ho h said v If the president had then ilsen In his own per pcr person 1 I 1 son In his own oln rower power us ns nn Individual M us ns president of ot tho Iho United states Stales Stalest t sowed solved tint problem In III such a I her that oil nil th the lire world looked on with 44 j j admiration and he that hero TI f wan Willi nobody In the tho United States that J raised n a Halo onno oleo against the 1 r When tho the first firs ship goes IO H through tho the IY 1 a fim causal It should carry In III addition to tn tor r t dl the Mug Illig another ling Hag with f f 1 nn nil in Inscription testifying to 10 tho genius I I courage skill s h Ill and patriotism of ot tho timo 1 president you fill forgotten something i Inquired Mr Fitzgerald of ot Now No York Yorki 1 i Mr Grosvenor Oro enor convulsed the tho house ashen he replied after attar hesitating a II mo moo I menu I have forgotten moro mort than Yi rr you m know n V t I Not by hy this retort Mr Fitzgerald asked It If there hero should not bo be to the Inscription tho thin fact that I the tho American people were heartily ashamed of thin tho WilY way they got Rol tho the Pa canal route Mr Grosvenor replied several save I I little people got 1 that way to an did dill 1 several big hl people but no III ono uno dared condemn tho the fiction of ut the tho president In III Ini i i that matter lie Ice challenged the time Domo Dona ants to 10 como comb forward now no and fool with the tho very weapon that thAI line has de tie n II number of ot the great men of ot your our already and he lie added laughter there ole are others on nu their lr way WI to tn limo tho lie He believed he hc mild sold the tho people understood tho iho president to be n II nuts n man maim manof of It great Ineat power and patriotIsm patriot patriotism ism 1 anti tho the Democrats could rould not mime nn Sin act of ot his bin that was not nol done dOllo tight right to the Ihl subject of ot the lie Ut publican party part lurt and Its Ita principles I Mr Ir said It van HO so united tinned that hut thorn thero was not net n 11 man on either side of Qt tin the th house who In III nn us hour routs rould not lIot draft n it 1 platform that would b h unanimously adopted at ul time the coming coining lima Looking over the HIP Democratic side nde I hi I ho hn Inquired a alil Dont Donl you L n wish you OU had lad u II situation like that 1 Ha lie maintained that the Democratic party was lIIS abundantly able oble to block the but when wh n It came to doing or cr agreeing to something It was stag In iii the unfortunate condition of or a 8 party broken Into fragments nt during all nil tho the past years of ot two splendid ad od administrations ministrations by tho the |