The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-02-17

but IL seemed that tne turkish olnclhIs
had never once said turkey" to Baker
Laughter.
Passing on to criticism on State papers,
he ridiculed, particularly, dispatches OF
j. Meredith Read, resident Minister to
Greece, in one of which Mr.. Reed de-
scribed, in grandiloquent phrases, a ball
given at Athens, at which he had the
honor of leading a contre danse with the
Queen, and from which he returned at
five o'clock, singing, as he (Springer)
supposed, that song which must have e
been Greek in the ears of the Atheneans
We won't go home till morning,
Till daylight does appear
What he said must have been delight
full sensations in the State department.
When this dispatch was received from
Mr.. Read, some of the officials there
should have sent him Dispatch
On with the dance let joy be unconfned,
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure NEE
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
TLaughter1. He then pictured Mr. Read
when hearing of the abolition of his of
fee, and supposed him addressing the
Queen as
Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, OH give me b5ck my heart.
loud laughter And then, as j. Mer-
edith was embarked on some stately
ship, and saw the Queen standing on the
shore, he would 60 on with the song
Maid of Athens, m gone;
Think of me, sweet when alone,
Though l fly to Istambol,
(meaning, he supposed, Philadelphia
Athens holds my heart and soul;
Hear my vow before Igo.
ZOe mon SdS Agdpo.
TLoud laughter,l He would like one of
the New York members to pronounce the
last line in Greek style. Laughter
Mr.. Seeeye suggested to Mr.. Springer
the Latin maxim, "Omne ignotum pro mag
nifco." Whatever is unknown is thought
to be magnificent,
Mr.. Springer-Thank you, sir; thank
you. Laughter
Passing on to the question Of the South
American and Haytian missions, he read
an extract from the Chicago Tribune,
charging the Ministerto Hayti with turn
ing his residence into an asylum for reb-
els, and with issuing, for pay, naturaliza-
ton certificates, and stating that the Min
lister to Peru had so little to do that he
set up pawnbroker's shop in Lima. He
then criticised the extravagant system of
the dispatch agency in London, and also
read from the report of Mr.. Keim, tray
cling consular inspector, drawing a dis
graceful picture of American Copsuls
abroad He spoke of the large amount
of unofficial fees exaCted by Consuls, and
not accounted for to the government,
specifying, particularly, the Consulate at
London, where fee of siXty-two cents
was levied on over four thousand in
voices within the last quarter (such fee
being for affidavit, and going into the
Consuls own pocket, and the Consulate
at Liverpool, from which the late inCumb-
ent had retired with fortune of $780,
900.
AN HONEST OFFICIAL DISMISSED.
He also mentioned the case of the late
Consul at Cadiz, Farrell, who had broken
up the wine ring there had been reward
ed for his fidelity and zeal by being dis
and by being replaced by man
" no said that he would not give the Ca
diz merchants any trouble.
Mr.. Cox IN. Y supported the bill as
bill of retrenchment. Some portions of
his speech were amusing, and much en-
joyed by the House. He concluded by
declaring that commerce could not be re-
vived by a miserable, rascally consular
system. Commerce did not depend upon
Gousulates. 1t depended on laws, or,
rather on the repeal of laws. Let taxes
be taken off, and commerce would come,
and the great art of ship-building (now
almost lost art in this country would
revive.
Mr.. Kelly said no industry in the coun-
try has grown so well, within the last
few years, as ship building, and gave sta
tistics to prove the assertion. He pre-
dicted that if the tariff bill reported from
the Committee on Ways and Means, and
now ending in the House, becomes a
law, farmers of Illinois would burn their
grain for fuel; the workshops of the coun-
try would be stricken down and immi-
grafton prohibited. The introduction of
that bill and its industries which the
folly of Congress, in contracting currency,
had left in a prosperous condition.
In brief discussion as to the course
of debate it was understood that Blaine
would address the House tomorrow
(promising to keep as near to the merits
Of the bill as Messrs. Cox and Kelly had
done), and that general debate would
come to a close tomorrow.
The Committee rose and the House
adjourned.