The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21
BAYARD IS CENSURED
The Resolution Was Adopted By The
House Vote of $50 TO II.
SPEECHES OF DIRECTORS
Foreign Representatives Are Re-
minded to Abstain From induig-
ing In Political Talks-Rursts
of Eloquence by a Texan.

on the resolution to censure Bayard
was resumed to-day, under an agree
ment entered into yesterday to take a
vote at O'Clock this afternoon. Adams.
republican, Pennsylvania, favored the
resolutions and said Bayard's long SER
vice and commanding position as an
American made his offense more fla
grant and reprehensible To show that
Bayard fully recognized his position as
the representative of the whole people,
he read from a speech delivered year
ago by Bayard at Wilmington, Del, in
which the ambassador said: II repre-
sent no party as ambassador to Great
Britain. but my country and my own
people"
Fairchild. republican, New York,
took issue with the majority of the for
eign affairs committee as to the char
acter of Bayard's defense. expressing
regret that the committee had not
brought in articles of impeachment in
stead of censure. Mr.. Bayard's utter
ances, he argued, constituted a GRIM
inal libel within the definition of the
law, and, in view of his exalted posi-
ton, a high crime against his country.
Wheeler, democrat, Alabama, in op-
position to the resolution, made the first
reference to the tariff to-day. He said
this attack on Bayard came from Mas
sachusetts, a state that believed In
protection for protection'o sake. Nc
Kinley had, on this floor. argued, in
favor-of high protection for iron and
cotton ties as absolutely necessary to
their production in this country. Cot
ton ties had besn placed on the free
list by the Wilson bill. yet he read
telegram from Youngstown. Ohio.
chronicling the xrst shipment of cot
ton ties to Bombay, India.
Hutchinson, democrat, Texas, said he
would vote for the resolutions laying
down the well-established general
principle that our representatives
should abstain from partisan speeches,
but he could not vote for the resolution
that censured Bayard by name.
Willis, republican, Delaware, was the
first republican to announce that he
opposed censuring Bayard. Like
| Hutchinson, he said he would be will
! ing to vote for the second resolution,
but he could not vote for the resolution
| of censure. First, state pride would
lead him to vote against IL. He respect
ed Bayard as a man of force and dis
| tinction. He did not think, however,
that he betrayed any confidence when
| he said that Bayard was a born aristo-
| crat posing as a democrat. His in
stincts were feudal in nature. Proceed
| ing. Willis drew the members around
| him in throngs and aroused great en-
| thusiasm both on the floor and in the
| galleries by his eulogy of the value of
| the birthright Of liberty and his out
spoken contempt for American snobs.
| sycophants and simpletons who dis
| credited their own country and wor-
| shipped at the foot of the aristocracy
| and royalty of the old world.
Turner democrat, Georgia. opposed
| the debate for the opposition to the res
| olutions in a strong 10-minute speech.
| His theme. like that of Bayard's at
| Edinburgh would, he said, be "individ-
| ual freedom; the germ of national
prosperity and progress" A theme
worthy of that noble chevalier. With
contempt he described the triumphant
republican party turning away from
| it's duty to visit it's wrath and indigna-
tion upon a member of his party for a
| trivial act. What a prodigy; what an
exploit in politics. The question was
not whether Bayard had violated good
taste. but whether IL was good taste for
the house to condemn him for what he
had done. He then proceeded to recall
the Chandler interview and the charges
of levying on the protected Industries
by the Mckinley agents.
Grosvenor tried vainly to interrupt
| Turner you have had your time"
said Turner, when you stood over the
grave of General Schenck yesterday de-
Tending him from the imputations
against him; you said not one word
against those stories about the agents
of the presidential candidate you favor.
In the face of such a state of things,
Mr.. speaker" he continued. 'I ask IL
II is not a strange coincidence that the
demonstration should follow the state
ment as the thunder follows the light
ming" Applause on the democratic
side.) Speaking still of charges of po-
litical corruption. he said the "addi-
| ton was now going on, the division
and silence" would come later.
After a few words by Newlands. Ne
vada, in favor of the resolutions, Hit,
chairman. yielded the remainder of his
time to Bailey. democrat. Texas. who
made a speech in favor of the resolu-
tions. The Edinburgh speech might. he
said. be a breach of propriety. but IL
| did not warrant these resolutions of
censure. The Boston speech, character
izing the people of the United States as
violent people. was much more Sc
rious. Ii was a breach of good taste
and of diplomatic etiquette. and was an
offense against our common sense and
sound and rugged patriotism. (Repub-
llcan applause) a hundred years OF
quiet submission TO the laws repelled
the charge that the Americans were a
violent people. Bailey concluded by say
ing that a man who would express such
utterances as those Of Bayard at Bos-
ton was unworthy 10 represent this
| country anywhere or at any time" IRE
| publican applause)
At the conclusion Of Bailey's remarks