Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-17
O'D0NNELL'S FATE.
Congressman Finnerty's Views on the
Coming Execution and the Course of the
United States.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.--In an interview
to-day Congressman Finerty expressed
himself fully as regards the probable event
of O'Donnell being hanged on Monday.
He said he had called on the president in
regard to the case within a few hours, but
had obtained no information beyond the
assurance that action had been taken and
the result would be announced through
the state department when the reply was
received from England. The president
did not expect an opinion, Finerty said,
but he was as courteous as usual, although
he appeared rather serious and somewhat
anxious.
I'm case O'Donnell is hanged on Mon
day." continued Fenerty, sit will be snub
| TO the Bnlted States house, which by reso-
luton, requested the president to ask
respite, if it has been asked, which sup
pose it has, and been refused, to both, TIE
executive and the house, and sequentIy
the whole country, has been
not on!y snubbed but insulted.
We may, in that event, acknowledge that
our government is utterly unable to obtain
even the slightest concession of common
justice for one of it's citizens from Eng
land. We may as well say to Great Britain:
arrest every American citizen you sus poet.
Keep him in Jail without trial, hang MIN,
| outside even the forms of your own Law,
we as a nation have fallen SO low that we
cannot do anything TO hinder. You ma co,
In short, with our people what you d--.n
please on your own dung hill.' S.r Wan.
Vernon Harcourt will be the medium
through which the refusal of the respite
will be communicated. He IS
homo secretary, and bears the
Americans that narrow hatred which only
insuiar Engiishmen can develop. He is
| sarcastic brute whose face always wears
| sheer. Gladstone holds such man in that
position on the principle perhaps that q
; man always keeps vicious dog, that he
| may be disagreeable to others but useful
to himself. Gladstone could ever get
along without some cantankerous person
| in his governme
| ''What can congress say if O'DonnelI ia
| hapged?" was asked.
| hFold its hands after pocketipg the in-
| suits. If you had asked me what aDy
other nation of our national strength or
less than our national strength would do
under like circumstances 1 might answer,
! in fact 1 would answer, it would gus
! pend diplomat relations with
Great Britain until the Insult was explain
! ed or atoned for.''
"Would you vote for such proceed
! ings?"
| what would be the use if did. Com
mercial interests are called, well, sven in
this country, to De superior to the idea of
national honor. I might stand alone in
that position and certainly [ dc not desire
practical isolation. We are commercial
people, but were We belliger' Mt uatIon
there would bs uAic in the air befor
/ Monday night. We are the snound IArk-
! est Caucasian nation in regard to popu!a
tion and l believe in territory, yet we are
! afraid to sneeze because We might dis
please the id little island that has a
navy and asserts itself whether in the
right or wrong. President Arthur has
certainly done what he could to remedy
/ this state of affairs, and 81 hope his rec
concentrations about the navy 10 the pres
ent congress will be sustained W thout re-
| ference to party"
| Suppose congress should declare for
the suspension of diplomatic relations,
and England declare wer?"
England will do nothing of th3 kind.
7 She would back down completely, because
she knows she has everything ~ l0se in
/ sceh e struggle. She might biocSade all
/
We would be healthy and happy on hog
and hominy, if nothing elae, while our
letters of Riarque, authorizing privateers
to prey on her commerce, would soon
make havoc with her carrying trade She
| might annoy us badly for six months after
war wss declared, but within year or
eighteen months at most, we world siarye
! her to death, and she knows it. Har fleet,
great as it is, could never
protect her vast merchants raarine."
what do you think, leaving out the
| question of war, congress- Will do ia the
premisss?"
Il have heard that should O'Doaneil be
| Gxeeated on Monday a rssolutioa viii be
introduced asking the state dep41 tment 10
lay all correspondence before tho house.
Then L suppose we will HAYS dabate
with good deal of sound aud fury in
deed. bet that will be the end OF it,
The conservative element in the house
will not IN my opinion, oppose that Wig
orous action be taken. England is called
a nation of shop keepers" Now, I'm
afraid the description moro truly appliss
to ourselves. Great Britain has al eagss
adopted her citizenship upon her shoulder.
She fips our national nose with her
fingers, but the chip will not be knocked
OIL, anu Inc naIlOndi nose VIII seek refuge
in the stars and stripes, which rapidly, in
foreign relations is degenerstlng into q
sort of handkerchief. La the adopted
citizen business it is more of q Claiming
lie' than ever it was in the worst days of
slavery. l am sorry to have to speak SO
rndely of the national symbol, but frank
ness is somstimCs wholesome
What remedies do you propose to re-
store stars and stripes to its ancient re-
speetability?''
"Give some other element in the country
than shopkeepers q chance; reconstruct
tire navy; send an American to represent
as in London, and recall the weak enob
and dude of dudes, Lord Rector, of the
university of Edinburgh, en- adopted
ssotahmsn, pretty representative of the
United States in England"
O'Donsett.
LONDON, Dec. 15-The scaIo.d upon
which O'DoDnell is to bs executed is being
erected. The hangmaH is iEside Newgate,
and remains there until after the execu-
ton. O'Donneli sleeps we'll and takes his
meals regularly. He does not occupy the
cell to which condemned t1arsc,1s nre nan