Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-12


The resolution rerited Mr.. Bayard' 8
statements in his Edinburgh speech,
in which the United States Ambassa.
dor to the Court of st. James declared
that the protective system was state
socialism.
These utterances, the resolution de-
clared, were reflections on the policy,
and were in manifest disregard of tho
proprieties and calculated to injure
our national reputation.
The resolution directed tho foreign
affairs committee 10 examine the utter.
ances in that speech and to draft and
report articles of impeachment to the
House.
Baltimore Sun Special.
y Washington, Dec. 10. Mr.. Barrett
OF Massachusetts will be the buncombe
member Of tho House of Representa-
tivee, Every one who knew Mr. Bar
rett was perfectly satisfied OF this so
soon as IL was known he was elected to
Congress. Barrett is a journalist.
He is now editor Of Boston news
paper. For some years be was n Wash
in0ton correspondent. While here he
was always doing something or saying
something indicating eccentricity. But
there was always method in his eccen-
tricities. He invariably had some OBJ
ject to accomplish or some effect to
produce. His conceit and his gall were
sublime. Nothing could repress him
and nothing could disturb his equa-
nimity. IL has been some 10 years
since he lived in Washington, but in
the interval his peculiar qualities have
been sharpened and more fully de-
veloped. He has come to Congress
with fhn 1nli harafa f,tpn 10 kaa.,
himself before the public in one way
or another, and he can be depended
upon to carry out his purpose to the
utmost. Barrett really does possess
some cleverness. He displayed this
to-day in the ingenious manner by
which he secured the opportunity to
pose before the House and create a
situation which will undoubtedly have
him talked about in both Europe and
America for several days.
The other new members of the House
we're positively green with envy at the
great success of Barrett in bounding
at. one moment into intercontinental
notoriety Let them watch Barrett if
they wish to take lessons. He will be
constantly springing surprises upon
them and the House, for if there is
one thing Barrett has made up his
mind to-, it is not to hide his light
under bushel. In thefpresent condi-
tion Of affairs In the House it would
not have been possible for him to pre-
cipitate discussion of the character
which ensued had he not risen to
privileged question. To make the sub.
ject with which he desired to make his
debut in connection with privileged
motion 1t was necessary to bring in the
absurd and far fetched suggestion of
impeachment He conferred with the
Speaker before submitting his sense
less and ridiculous proposition, and,
as agreed upon between them the
Speaker promptly overruled the point
OF. order brought against it. Mr.. Reed
is never so happy as when he can stir
up partisan feeling in the House and
provoke sensations and excitements.
OF course, he knew as we'll as Mr..
Barrett did that the motion to impeach
Ambassador Bayard for merely repeat.
ing his wellknowp sentiments on
economic issues could not possibly be
considered as serious proposition.
But it was too good chance to be lost
and would do very well to fill up the
time while he is completing his list Of
committees.
He lay back in the Speakers chair
and chuckled sardonicaly as the scene
was spread before him. He enjoyed
himself almost as much as Barrett will
tomorrow when he reads his name in
all the newspapers. While the whole
affair was more or less ludicrous, it
had it's serious side in the demonstra.
tion Of the lengths to which partisan
ship will go. There was not a man on
the Republican side of the House who
did not feel in his heart that such a
resolution was uncalled for and i'm
proper, and that it should have been
swept out of sight without moments
discussion. This was shown plainly
by the modified form in which, at the
suggestion of Mr.. Hit. it was finally
cent TO the committee on foreign affairs,
when appointed. But the temptation
to seize the occasion in the hope of
making party capital could not be re-
sisted.
The whole purpose of the resolutions
and the discussion was TO create politi-
cal capital. They wished, as Mr.. Crisp
very properly said, to give their mem
bers a chance to air their views regard
ing the doctrine Of protection. and to
refute, il possible, the strong statement
OF fact which Mr.. Bayard is reported
to have made in his Edinburgh speech.
They were in addition squirming under
Il6 1OrceIul dppilCdtlOn OF ME- Buyaru q
logic to their individual cases, and
while it woul1 have been impossible TO
have prevented their expressions of
hostility to everything Democratic. it
should not have been difficult to have
at least furnished a reply to their
charges. The weakness of the Repub-
licans' case against Mr.. Bayard, as
made out by the members of the House
to-day, is revealed by their efforts to
show degree Of similarity between
the offence they allege and those com.
mitted recently by Mr.. Thurfto then
Minister from Hawaii, and by Sir
Lionel Sackville West when he was the
English minister. In both of these
instances, however. the dismissal of the
minister was due to their having dis
cussed in an improper manner the
domestic affairs of this country. No
one here would have felt called upon
TO criticise anything said by them
either officially or informally concern
ing the affairs of their respective coun-
tries. When the whole purpose OF the
Republican majority is understood and
the spirit which animated their con-
duct in the House to-day is appreciated
by the public it is not likely they will
have gained anything for themselves
or have done the Democrats much
harm. Their object was petty one
and the method adopted for its accom-
plishment, at time when the country
is waiting impatiently to discover what
the Republicans propose to do regard
ing important questions of home in