The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-12-14

zADE: KATHDRUM. IDAI
speaker, you must impeach 4 maior,+v
q the American people,
republicans jeered at this hut
VT. Crisp proceeded to recall the over
"neinlng republican defeat that fol-
.oweu the enactment Of the MCKINLEY
:. o.sctive measure. He added that now
- .ne republicans believed so heartily
~ nlgn protection they should be brave
enough to frame and pass q bill. n
was the only way they could Justify
their position.
MT. Mccall followed Mr. Crisp and
s sa.u Dayard made violent partisan
snip speech. obviously one Of improprie- |
". bayard, he said, had misrepresent-
81 the American people by saying they
neeoeo strong master. The people Of
Inc United States have no master. The
president was their servant. He moved
20 amend his resolution so as to include
m ~ the extract from Bayard's Eng-
iand) speech Incorporated In Mr.. Nc
Calls resolution.
Mr.. Dingley followed Mr.. Mccall and
took the ground that Bayard was an
ambassador Of the United States and
the question was whether he should 80
far forget his duties as to denounce the
policy as to half of the United States.
HAS the ambassador Of this country.
the right to go upon the platform in a
foreign country and denounce one-half
OF the people In the terms used by Bay
ard?"
Mr.. Crisp-Any citizen has the right
to say what he thinks upon economic
| questions.
MR.. DINGLEY OUTSPOKEN.
In reply to a question by Mr.. Crisp,
Mr.. Dingley declared, amid applause on
the republican side. that his personal
opinion was that the offense Of Bayard
was impeachable and ought to be i'm
peachable by the house. Whether it was
policy for the house to impeach was an
other question.
II am very glad to get the gentleman's
opinion" said Mr.. Crisp.
II believe" continued Mr.. Dingley
, that an example should !. !. made Of
, some Of these gentlemen who are con
, stantly violating the principles and pro
} priety Of official life. Bayard should b.
: publicly condemned
Mr.. Wheeler asked why the republi
cans, If they were so solicitous of tn
: conduct of our representatives abroad
r had not recalled Robert G. Schenck, tn
4 United States minister to Great Brit
ain, who had been guilty Of cheating tn
f English with worthless mining stocks.
0 The republicans smiled, but no on
E deigned to make reply.
Il Mr.. Cummings injected some hume
g into the debate. He said he did not kno'
whether the pending resolution ma
: been brought into the house under falls
t, prs,tenses, but he did know that tn
Y resolution was based upon newspape
S report of a speech: that it was brough
: in by a newspaper editor (Mr. Barrett
r. and backed by another editor (M
1, Dingley). He himself was a neWspape
.e man and he congratulated the neWsps
Ie per men Of the country that they at la'
t. smoke from the floor of the house
le Mr. Cannon of Illinois said he believe
l. that the Edinburgh speech shoulo
is condemned and that it was the duty
the house of representatives to expires
Is IFS disapproval by adopting resolutie
j. Of censure.
g. Mr.. Turner Of Georgia took the pos
A. +;o, that Bayard's utterances, if co
IS rectly reported, did not even cons'i'u
lie an improperly.
RESOLUTION MODIFIED.
IS After some further debate by Messl
)" McCreary, Grow and McGuile, mr.. ia
< ratt on the suggestion Of Mr.. Hit
ii ouested unanimous consent that ms Re- :
of ol,,tion making it mandatory upon {
u committee to report "by impeacnm 4,
he ~ otherwise" should be stricken o.
he Tbere was some parliamentary spar