Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-30
From Senate Journal
Attempt 10 Destroy British
Parliament House.

IeUU OF Olltf RESOLUTIONS DclnB II
order, the Chair lays before the
Senate the resolution submitted OF
Saturday last by the Senator from
Delaware Mr.. Bayard.
RcsOlred That the Senate of the United
States has heard with indignation ant
profound sorrow Of the attempt TO destrO,
the House Of Parliament and other public
buildings in London, and hereby cxpressei
its honor and dotestation of such mon
strous crimes against civilization.
The Presiding Officer. Theques
ton is on agreeing TO the resOlu
ton.
Mr.. Bayard. Mr.. President, /
am better satisfied after the lapse
of day to ask now for the adop.
ton by the Senate of the resolution
offered by me at the close of the
last legislative session, because
this body has now the opportunity
to affirm deliberately what spon-
taneOusly and instinctively prompt
ed expression on the instant of in
formation of uncivilized, cruel, and
barbarOus attempt to destroy in
another country human life, and
with it public buildings dedicated
to government Of laws, in the
vain hope, possibly, to gain relief
from suffering by thus overthrow
ing law itself in its very citadel,
and at the cost Of suffering and
death to innocent persons.
1t seemed to me emlnently prop
er that as a law-maklng body of
the American people the Senate
should express its antagonism to a
spirit which by destroying law will
necessarily destroy all hopes Of
that liberty that can only exist un-
der law.
To give emphatic expression to
the meaning of this action, | ask
for the yeas and nays on the pas
sage Of the resolution.
Mr.. Rlddleberger. | move to re-
fer the resolution to the Committee
on Foreign Relations.
The Presiding Officer. The Sena-
tor from Delaware asks for the
yeas and nays on the adoption Of
the resolution. 1t is usual first to
ascertain if the call for the yeas
and nays is seconded.
Mr.. Riddleberger. When we
reach that point | shall make the
motion to refer.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr.. Riddleberger. | move to re-
fer the resolution to the Committee
on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Bayard. ask for the yeas
and nays upon the motion to refer
the resolution.
The Presiding Officer. The
Senator from Virginia moves to
refer the resolution to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, on
which motion the yeas and nays
are demanded.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr.. Riddleberger. Mr.. Presi-
dent, ask to refer the resolution
to the Committee on Foreign Re
lations because | presume that that
is the appropriate committee FOR
the reference of such a resolution.
| can receive information such as
we have had here with profound
sorrow | am not always prepared
to say that | can receive 1t with
indignation Iwould prefer that
/ the Committee on Foreign Rela
tons should report back the reso-
luton after they shall have rcceIv-
cd more information than we have
up to this time.
1 believe the President OF the
Senate, on Saturday evening, rul-
ed that this was legislative busl-
ness, and that it should properly
60 into the legislative Journals OF
the record Of the Senate, and
supposed it was understood here
that what was said in connection
with the resolution at that time
would also make a part OF the
/ Senate record. 1t does not so ap.
pear. Warranted by the ruling OF
the President Of the Senate, ! can
20 back to Saturday evening and
there find that a number of Asso-
ciatcd Press kilograms were read
/ in the Senate announcing that GER
tain things had occurred in Eng
land, and then it was that the
Senator from Delaware offered this
resolution. asked that the doors
might be opened and the injunc
/ ton Of secrecy removed, when the
Senator from Kansas Mr.. ingalls, !
asked that the resolution. might
90 over until this morning. That
/ is the record. Now we have 1t this
morning in the regular order oil
| business.
1t is a resolution expressive OF
the Indignation OF the Senate of
| the United States at the blowing
up of certain buildings in England,
because forsooth it was destructive
of buildings in which the laws OF
England are made which guarantee
liberty to the subjects of Great
Britain. That reason is not sulli-
cient to induce me to vote for the
resolution. We can not be expect
ed to approve all the methods OF
the Irish people, but while we are
preparing and experimenting with
dynamite to blow vessels out Of the
water and to drown people in the
ocean, it scarcely becomes us to
say that q people who do not con-
stitute a government and can not
make a proclamation OF war shall
not use the same instruments OF
war that we would use under the
same circumstances. Put any OF
us in a country where we cOald not
own land, where We could not exer-
else the God.given right ofowning
a foot OF laud eveI though We earn.
ed it by the sweat of our faces, and
then see what kind of methods we
would employ.
| do not mean to Justify the meth
cd, but do mean to say that |
shall not here vote for any resolu
ton that may be distorted into an
expression Of sympathy, or even of
common fellowship, with q country
that knows nothing but tyranny,
that practices nothing but cruelty
in her wars, and gives none of her
subjects the exercise OF that liberty
which we say on this side of the
Atlantic belongs to every one. But