Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-11
MR. BAYARD'S SPEECHES Have Raised the Ire of Republi-
 can Congressman. IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTIONS Were Offered by Mir. Barrett, Republican, of
 Massachusetts. MIR. CRISP DEFENDED OUR MINISTER. "If the Republicans Wanted to Impeach Mir. Bayard They Must Also Impeach Majority of the American Peo-
 ple,'' Said MT. Crisp.
 
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTIONS
MIR. CRISP DEFENDED OUR MINISTER.

Washington, Dec. 1O.-On motion Of MT. Dingley, republican, of Maine, 1t was agreed that when the house adjourn to- day it be until Thursday.
 Mr Fisher, republican, of New York, asked consideration of a resolution d. recting the committee on naval affairs, when appointed, to investigate the re- ports that the battleship Texas is faulty in construction and into all matters per taining to her cost, sea worthiness, etc. On objections of Mr. Crisp, democrat, it was referred to the naval committee.
 MT. Mccall, republican, of Massachu- setts, offered the following resolution and asked it's immediate considerations:
 Whereas, Thomas F. Bayard, ambassa- dor of the United States to Great Brit ain, is reported by the London Times newspaper to have said in pubic speech delivered in Boston, Eng, on the 2d day of August, 1895, "The president stood in the midst of a strong, self-con- fident and oftentimes violent people, men who sought to have their own way; 1t took real man to govern the people of the United StateS;'
 Whereas Said Bayard is further re- ported by the press of this country to have said in a public speech delivered in Edinburgh, Scotland. on the Eth day of November, 1S95 Tn my own country 1 have witnessed the unsuitable growth of a form of socialism, styled protection, which has done more to corrupt public life, to banish men of independent minds from public councils and to lower the tone of the national representation than any other single cause; protection now controlling the sovereign power of tax ation has been perverted from its proper function of creating revenue 10 support the government into an engine for selfish profit, allied with combinations called trusts; it has thus sapped the popular consciencefby giving corrupting largesse to special classes, and 1t throws legisla- tion into the present market, where job bers and choppers took the place of statesmen;" and
 Whereas, It is not one of the functions of an ambassador to insult the country to which he is accredited, the people he is supposed to represent, and it is consistent neither with the character of the office nor with the dignity and independence of the people of the United States that their ambassador should make violent parti- san speeches on questions relating to our democratic policy upon foreign soil; therefore be it
 Resolved, That the president be and he hereby is requested to inform the house of representatives if not incom- patible with the public interest, what steps, if any, he has taken to ascertain
 
 and if he has ascertained that he did make said speeches, what steps, if any, he has taken to recall or to censure said Bayard.
 MT. Crisp objected to it's consideration and it was referred to the committee on foreign affairs.
 MT. Barrett, republican, of Massachu- setts, offered as a matter of privilege resolutions of impeachment against Thomas F. Bayard. United States am- bassador to Great Britain.
 The following is the text of the resolu- tions:
 l do impeach Thomas F. Bayard, United States ambassador to Great Brit ain, of high crimes and misdemeanors on the following grounds:
 Whereas, The following is speech delivered before the Edinburgh Philo- sophical institution by Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, ambassador of the United States of America at the court of Great Britain, published in the London News under date of November 8, 1895:
 "The opening address of the Edinburgh Philosophical institution was delivered last night by MT. Bayard, ambassador of the United States of America, who se- lected the subject, Individual Freedom, the Germ of National Progress and Per manence'
 Tn his own country, he said, he had witnessed the unsuitable growth of that form of state socialism styled protec- fion, which he believed had been more to foster class legislation and create in- equality of fortune, to corrupt public life, to banish men of independent mind and character from the public councils to lower the tone of national representa- tion; blunt public conscience, create false standards in the popular mind to familiarize it with reliance upon state aid and guardianship in private affairs, divorce ethics from politics and place politics upon the low level of merca- nary scramble than any other single cause.
 ''Step by step, and largely owing to the confusion of civic strife, it has sue ceeded in obtaining control of the sov- ereign power of taxation, never hesitat- ing at any alliance or to resort to any combination that promised to assist it's purposes of perverting the public taxa tion from its only true Jurisdiction and function of creating revenues for the support of the whole people into an en- zine for selfish private profit of crowd of beneficiaries and combinations called trusts Under it's dictation individual enterprise and independence have been oppressed and the energy of discovery and invention debilitated and dis couraged.
 Tt has unhesitatingly allied itself with every policy which tended to commer- cial isolation, dangerously depleted the treasury and sapped the popular con- science by schemes of corruptng favor and largesse to Separate classes, whose support was thereby attracted Thus 1t had done much to throw legislation into the political. where jobbers and chop pers took the place of statesmen.
 Tt was incorrect to speak of protection as a national policy. for that it could never be- because it could never be other than the fostering of special interests at the expense of the rest, and this over threw the great people of equality be- fore the law and that resultant sense of justice and equity in the admission of sovereign powers which was the sense of democratic tranquility and human con tentment
 "The enfeeblement of individual ener-