The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-29
CHAMBERLAIN HoNoRED.
Given the Freedom of Birmingham and
q BANQUET.

q Banquet.
LONDON, March 2S.-Joseph Chamber
lain was presented with the freedom Of the
city of Birmingham to-day. He made a
speech in which he referred to his visits to
the United States He said that the first
object of the Fisheries Commission was to
cultivate a friendly and neighborly
feeling between the United States and
Canada and to endeavor to remove
all possible causes of misunderstanding.
Even if final settlement of the fisheries
question was delayed the Commission might
with confidence assert that they had pre-
pared the way for an amicable arrange
ment Of all the differences between Great
Britain and the United States. Mr.. Cham
berlain's remarks were greeted with cheers.
BANoUETTED AT NIGHT.
The Mayor of Birmingham presided at a
banquet given to Mr. Chamberin in the
evening Mr.. Chamberlin, responding to a
toast TO his health, expressed his thanks for
tho kindness shown him. He said that he
had accepted the mission to America as n
public duty without great hopes of success
Instead of the cool reception predicted for
him, he had been received with n warmth
of hospitality and kindness for which he
was totally unprepared. He had now
almost as many friends across tho Atlantic
as at home, and he had contracted cbliga-
tions in America which he was only too glad
TO acknowledge he could never adequately
repay. He had found the American pleni-
potentiaries men Of distinguished ability,
firm in the defense of their rights, but of
fair judicial minds, jealous of the honor
and good faith of the American people, and
anxious to promote an honorable and ami
cable settlement.
A HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY.
Nz,x Al..A tn,I L..
was finished, prophets of evil were again at
work, but he hoped they were again mis-
taken. Referring TO Secretary Bayard's
opinion that treaty conceded all that in
reason and justice the American fishermen
could ask he said il that were so rejection of
such an olive branch would
throw n heavy responsibility upon the
shoulders of those who would prolong the
state of irritation and dangerous antagonism
in the relations between America and
Great Britain. He would like TO say a word
regarding the impressions received by him
on his first-but he hoped not his last
visit to America.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
He never could discover that Americans
cared a straw for the Judgment or criticism
Of foreign nations, but with sentiments
which did them honor and which must be
pleasurable to the English, they looked to
the mother country with an earnest
desire and craving for justice and
friendly appreciation. He ventured
to tell his American friends
that there was a feeling of pride, not un-
mixed with envy, among all elias es in Great
Britain at the great expansion. extra
ordinary prosperity and ever increasing in
telligence and cultivation of the American
people To be an American was in itself a
passport to the good will Of every English
man.
OUR KINSMEN.
John Bright, in proposing the toast "Our
Kinsmen," said that he had never addressed
a meeting in this hall that was in such
entire sympathy with its object. They
could honestly congratulate Mr.. Chamber
lain and hope that he might on many
other occasions render services to his
country He liked tho wording
of this toast, for he thought that English
men had right TO call all people on the
other side Of the Atlantic our kinsmen, and
that Englishmen were entitled TO look upon
the man as an enemy to mankind-not
merely to their own English speaking
race--who would do anything TO excite
anger, disorder or dispute between America
and Great Britain. Both orators were re-
ceived with the greatest enthusiasm. United
States Consul Hughes and Secretary Colmer
responded.