Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-28
sAToLLI AT A BANQUET.

iron Club, given Saturday night at the
Arlington Hotel, Washington, was one
of the most successful ever given by
that club. Among the prominent guests
were Archbishop Satolli, ex Speaker
Reed, Associate Justice Brewer, Major
General Schoield, the German, Ha-
waiian and Argentine ministers, Will
liam Edgar Nyc, Senators Teller, Du-
bois and German, Representatives
Hopkins Weadock, Baker, Caruth,
Springer and Cannon, Judge Rufus B.
Cowing, New York city: Thomas Mel
son Page, aud Assistant Postmaster
General Jones. Many novel and inter-
esting features of entertainment were
introduced. There are always features
aud features The first ofthese charac-
teristic incidents was the initiation.
The reconciliation of Cleveland and
Hill was the subject seized upon by the
initiation committee, for scene in one
act. Mr.. Wynne, disguised as the ven.
cradle Capt. Bassett, the famous official
of the Senate, e,announced Private Secre-
tary Thurber, who, when he appeared, in
formed the company that it was due to
his efforts alone that the two distin-
guished New Workers had been brought
together. Close upon his heels came
Secretary Lamont TO dispute this claim
in ioud and angry voice, and while
the rivalry was still unsettled Cleveland
and Hill themselves appeared. With
much formalty they shook hands and
fell upon each others necks, while a
crowd of Clevelandites sang the
Cuckoo song, and gathering Of
Tammany gentlemen warbled "In the
Bowery.n On the outskirts was Mr..
r. NJ. Larncr, uniformed as police
man and swathed in q big canvas sen
try box, labeled "Foit Cleveland"
The reconciliation having been duly
effected with bright, crisp dialogue,
the disguises were thrown aside and
the principal characters were discov-
cred.
The speeches were unusually bright
and able, among them that of Mgr.
Satolli, who had his first opportunity
since his residence in this country of
addressing the press. Mgr. Satolli's
address was read by DIR. Rocker. He
said in part:
"From the days of my arrival in
America, down to The present moment,
| have had every reason to feel pleased
with the press of this country, to con-
ceive the most exalted opinion of it, 10
appreciate its great importance, 10
nourish for feelings Of sincere and i'm
perishable gratitude. Ifyou desire to
know my mission among you, you will
find it expressed in the conditions enun-
ciated for my favorable reception here
by well meaning, but misled, writer
in the Forum two years ago. 1t is 10
help teach the ignorant, to raise ii Q
fallen, to lead the guilty aud penitert
to the invisible aud divine Saviour
who alone has power to forgive; TO
console the sorrowing, to promote
righteousness, liberty, sympathy, the
spirit of sympathy and the spirit of
Christian brotherhood throughout the
land. If you want to know what my
mission is not, you have it in the words
of the same writer in which he ex-
plains what he thinks it is. He as
serts that am here 10 further the
claims of the Pope to kingdom in
this world, kingdom which embraces
the whole world, al of the kingdoms
of the world and the glory of them.
In my own ramc and in that of Leo
MI, who sent me, ] repudiste any
such purpose, and when it shall please
the Pope to recall me, trusting in the
kindness and rectitude of the public
press, as Samuel of old, on laying
down the crown of Israel, appealed to
the assembled people to express dis
satisfaction with his administration, SO
| will not hesitate to lay before the
press of the country my labors and say,
Judge me-