Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16

ing EpgiIsitIAsn from the Face of the
Earth.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I5.--In an interview
to-day Cong Itssman Finerty expressed
himself fally as regards the probable event
of O'Donnell being hanged On Monday.
He said he had called en- the president in
regard to the case within 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.
''In case O'Donnell is hanged on Mon
day." continued Fenerty, sit will be snub
to the United States house, which by reso-
luton, requested the president to ask q
respite, if it has been asked, which sup
pose it has, and been refused, to both, tie
executive and the house, and consequently
the whole country, has been
not only snubbed but insulted.
We may, in that event, acknowledge that
our government is utterly unable to obtain
even the slightest conoessionlof common
Justice for one of its citizens from Eng
land. We may as we'll say to Great Britain:
ARREST every American citizen you suspect.
Keep him in Jail without trial, hang him,
outside even the forms of your own law,
We as nation have fallen SO low that We
cannot do anything TO hinder. You may Go,
in short, vita our people what you d-n
please on your own dung hill.' Sir VIM.
Vernon Harcourt will be the medium
through which the refusal of the respite
will be communicated. He is
home secretary, and bears the
Americans that narrow hatred winch only
insular Englishmen can develop. He 10 q
sarcastic brute whose face always wears a
snser. Gladstone holds such man in that
position On the principle perhaps that a
man always keeps a vicious dog, that he
may be disagreesble to others but useful
| to himself. Gladstone could never get
along without some cantankerous .person
| in his government"
"What can congress say if O'Donr ell is
hanged?" was asked.
"Eo!d its hands after pocketing the in
suits. II you had asked me what any
other nation of our national strength or
| less than our national strength would do
under like circumstances I might answer,
in fac. T would answer, it would sus-
tead diplomat relations with
Great Bcitain until the insult was explain
| ed Or atoned for"
would you vote for such proceed
| lngs?"
'Wnat would be the use if I did. Com
mercial interests are called, we'll, even in
this country, to be superior to tbs idea Of
national honor. I might stand alone in
| that position and certainly do nos desire
practical isolation. We ara a commercial
| people, but were We belligerent nation
there would be u ic IN the air befor :
| Monday night. We are the second larg-
| est Caucasian nation il regard to populG
Iiop and 7 believe in territory, yet We are
afraid to sneeze because we might dis
please The id little island that has a
navy aud asserts itself whether in the
right or wrong. President Arthur has
certainly done what he could TO remedy
this state of affairs, and I hope his rec
concentrations about the navy to the pres
ent congress will be sustained without re-
ference to party"
suppose congress should declare for
the suspension of diplomatic relations,
duQ id4u QOCldIC Wal
ENGLAND will do nothing of the kind.
She would back down completely, because
she knows she has every thing to lose in
such struggle. She might blockade all
our ports, but we would not starve, and
we would be healthy and happy on hog
and hominy, if nothing else, while our
lstiers of marque, 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 was declared, but within a year or
eighteen months at most, we would starve
her to death, and she knows it. Ger feet,
great as it is, could never
protect her vast merchant marine"
What do you think, leaving out the
question OF war, congress will do in the
premises?"
81 have heard that should O'Donnell be
executed on Monday a resolution will be
introduced asking the state department to
lay all correspondence before the house.
Then I suppose we will have debate
with good deal of sound and fury in
deed, but 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 more truly applies
to ourselves. Great Britain has always
adopted her citizenship upon her shoulder.
She fips our national nose with her
fingers, but the chip will not be knocked
of, and the national nose will seek refuge
in the stars and stripes, which rapidly, in
forsign relations is degeneratlng into a
sort of handkerchief. In the adoft
citizen business it is more of "faunting
lie" than ever it was in the worst days OF
slavery. am sorry to have to speak 60
rudely of the national symbol, but frank
ness is sometimes wholesome"
''What remedies do you propose to re-
store stars and stripes to its ancient re-
spec.ability?"
"Give some other element in the country
than shopkeepers a chance; reconstruct
the navy; send an American to represent
Us in London, and recall the weak snob
and dude of dudes, Lord Rector, of the
| university of Edinburgh, an adopted
Scotchman, pretty representative Of the
United States in England"
C'DonneU.
LONDON, Dee. 15.-The scaffoid upon
| which O'Donnell is to be executed is being
erected. The hangmanis inside Eewgate,
and remains there until after the execu-
ton. O'Donneli sleeps we'll and takes his