The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-20
HOUSE,.

Washington, 19.-Carter, chair
man of the committee on foreign
affairs, submitted as a privilege
question the following report anG
resolutions:
The resolutions adopted by the
House on the 9th of January were
intended to express to the German
government and people our sympa'
thy on the death Of an eminent mar
who died in this country, who haG
served bis native land as a member
of its highest legislative body, anG
as tribute OF respect to his mem
Ory. While your committee is o.
opinion that said resolutions should
have been received and transmitted
in the same spirit Of cordiality and
good will by which 1t was prompted
1t refrains from expressing an opin
ion az to whether the course
pursued by the authorities of the
Ger man empire in regard to them
was or was not in accordance with
the proprie lies governing the inter
nal regulations Of said empire as 8
matter not within its province. The
|dignified position assumed by the
Department of State merits and viii
command the confidence of the
country, fully sustaining the. high
character that department. ha:
maintained since the organization OF
the federal government. AS to the
resolutions offered on the 10th OF
March, your committee is of the
opinion that they contain language,
under the present circumstances,
superfuous and irrelevant. and not
necessary or proper to vindicste the
character or dignity of this House
Your committee therefore reports
back said resolutions with the re.
communication that they lie upon
the table, and report the following
resolutions, with the recommends
ton that they be adopted as substi
toted therefor:
ReSoloed, That the resolutions re-
ferring to the death of DR.. Edward
Lask er, adopted by this House on
January 9th last, were intended as
q tribute Of respect to the memory
Of an eminent statesman VINO had
died within the United States, and
an expression OF sympathy with the
German people for whom he had
been an honorable representative.
Resoloed, That the House having
no official csncern with the relations
between the executive and ,legisla-
tive branches of the German gov
ernment, does not deem it requisite
to it's dignity to criticise the man.
ner OF the reception Of the resolu.
tiOns or the circumstances which
prevented their reaching their des-
tinati0n after they had been ccm-
municated through the proper
channels to Germany.
Curtin Immediately demanded
that the previous question would
not be ordered as the House had
made apologies enough for being in
suited.
Cox, of New York, moved to lay
the whole matter on the table, That
W0o WIG W0y W SAO0k Suo O6InaQ
Chancellor. The motion was lost.
SO to33.
The previous question having
been ordered OchIltree Eose to de,
bate the resolutions. He yielded to
no gentleman in his esteem for and
confidence in the distinguished
members of the foreign affairs com~
mittee, and ordinarily was disposed
to rely on their judgment, but this
affair had gone beyond the domain
Of rel tape and circumlocution. It
had assumed q phase which called
on each and every representative to
look to ii that his individual honor
and dignity were preserved, and in
so ding to defend The dignity of the
peo,.e. 1t. was not becoming the
dignity OF this body to enter into
Of the meaning of the
original resolution.
Othiitree then delivered a eu-
logy on the high abilities and noble
Character Of Lasker, and said that a
compliment to Lasker was a rebuke
to he German Chancellor because
the were antitheses of each other.